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Federated learning aims to jointly learn statistical models over massively distributed remote devices. In this work, we propose FedDANE, an optimization method that we adapt from DANE, a method for classical distributed optimization, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Tian Li , Anit Kumar Sahu , Manzil Zaheer , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith

As people pay more and more attention to privacy protection, Federated Learning (FL), as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, is receiving more and more attention. However, due to the biased distribution of data on devices in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yuquan Zhang , Yongquan Zhang

This paper develops a unified distributed method for solving two classes of constrained networked optimization problems, i.e., optimal consensus problem and resource allocation problem with non-identical set constraints. We first transform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Yi Huang , Ziyang Meng , Jian Sun , Wei Ren

Federated learning is a distributed learning framework where clients collaboratively train a global model without sharing their raw data. FedAvg is a popular algorithm for federated learning, but it often suffers from slow convergence due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shokichi Takakura , Seng Pei Liew , Satoshi Hasegawa

Federated learning is a distributed and privacy-preserving approach to train a statistical model collaboratively from decentralized data of different parties. However, when datasets of participants are not independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Li Ju , Tianru Zhang , Salman Toor , Andreas Hellander

Federated Learning is a popular distributed learning paradigm in machine learning. Meanwhile, composition optimization is an effective hierarchical learning model, which appears in many machine learning applications such as meta learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Feihu Huang

Federated learning enables training on a massive number of edge devices. To improve flexibility and scalability, we propose a new asynchronous federated optimization algorithm. We prove that the proposed approach has near-linear convergence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Sanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta

Federated learning is typically approached as an optimization problem, where the goal is to minimize a global loss function by distributing computation across client devices that possess local data and specify different parts of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jennifer Gillenwater , Eric Xing , Afshin Rostamizadeh

In this work, we quantitatively calibrate the performance of global and local models in federated learning through a multi-criterion optimization-based framework, which we cast as a constrained program. The objective of a device is its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Amrit Singh Bedi , Chen Fan , Alec Koppel , Anit Kumar Sahu , Brian M. Sadler , Furong Huang , Dinesh Manocha

We present a new accelerated stochastic second-order method that is robust to both gradient and Hessian inexactness, which occurs typically in machine learning. We establish theoretical lower bounds and prove that our algorithm achieves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Artem Agafonov , Dmitry Kamzolov , Alexander Gasnikov , Ali Kavis , Kimon Antonakopoulos , Volkan Cevher , Martin Takáč

Stochastic dual coordinate ascent (SDCA) is an effective technique for solving regularized loss minimization problems in machine learning. This paper considers an extension of SDCA under the mini-batch setting that is often used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-05-14 Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Tong Zhang

Federated learning has been widely applied to enable decentralized devices, which each have their own local data, to learn a shared model. However, learning from real-world data can be challenging, as it is rarely identically and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Kavya Kopparapu , Eric Lin , Jessica Zhao

Federated learning is a distributed optimization paradigm that allows training machine learning models across decentralized devices while keeping the data localized. The standard method, FedAvg, suffers from client drift which can hamper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Xiaowen Jiang , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent approach for collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, the quest to balance acceleration and stability becomes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Liuzhi Zhou , Yu He , Kun Zhai , Xiang Liu , Sen Liu , Xingjun Ma , Guangnan Ye , Yu-Gang Jiang , Hongfeng Chai

Distributed optimization is fundamental to modern machine learning applications like federated learning, but existing methods often struggle with ill-conditioned problems and face stability-versus-speed tradeoffs. We introduce fractional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Andrei Lixandru , Marcel van Gerven , Sergio Pequito

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. Standard federated optimization methods such as…

Composite federated learning offers a general framework for solving machine learning problems with additional regularization terms. However, existing methods often face significant limitations: many require clients to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuan Zhou , Jiachen Zhong , Xinli Shi , Guanghui Wen , Xinghuo Yu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a widely adopted training paradigm for privacy-preserving machine learning. While the SGD-based FL algorithms have demonstrated considerable success in the past, there is a growing trend towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yujia Wang , Shiqiang Wang , Songtao Lu , Jinghui Chen

We propose a new training algorithm, named DualFL (Dualized Federated Learning), for solving distributed optimization problems in federated learning. DualFL achieves communication acceleration for very general convex cost functions, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that scales on-device learning collaboratively and privately. Standard FL algorithms such as FedAvg are primarily geared towards smooth unconstrained settings. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Honglin Yuan , Manzil Zaheer , Sashank Reddi