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We investigate the problem of agent-to-agent interaction in decentralized (federated) learning over time-varying directed graphs, and, in doing so, propose a consensus-based algorithm called DSGTm-TV. The proposed algorithm incorporates…

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We design a low complexity decentralized learning algorithm to train a recently proposed large neural network in distributed processing nodes (workers). We assume the communication network between the workers is synchronized and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xinyue Liang , Alireza M. Javid , Mikael Skoglund , Saikat Chatterjee

Decentralized learning provides a scalable alternative to parameter-server-based training, yet its performance is often hindered by limited peer-to-peer communication. In this paper, we study how communication should be scheduled over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tongtian Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Mingze Wang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Can Wang

The implementation of a vast majority of machine learning (ML) algorithms boils down to solving a numerical optimization problem. In this context, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) methods have long proven to provide good results, both in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Janis Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt

Cooperative decentralized learning relies on direct information exchange between communicating agents, each with access to locally available datasets. The goal is to agree on model parameters that are optimal over all data. However, sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jasmine Bayrooti , Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

The expansion of AI toward the edge increasingly exposes the cost and fragility of cen- tralised intelligence. Data transmission, latency, energy consumption, and dependence on large data centres create bottlenecks that scale poorly across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Eiman Kanjo , Mustafa Aslanov

This paper investigates the stochastic optimization problem with a focus on developing scalable parallel algorithms for deep learning tasks. Our solution involves a reformation of the objective function for stochastic optimization in neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Pengzhan Guo , Zeyang Ye , Keli Xiao , Wei Zhu

As a crucial scheme to accelerate the deep neural network (DNN) training, distributed stochastic gradient descent (DSGD) is widely adopted in many real-world applications. In most distributed deep learning (DL) frameworks, DSGD is…

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We consider a distributed learning problem in a wireless network, consisting of N distributed edge devices and a parameter server (PS). The objective function is a sum of the edge devices' local loss functions, who aim to train a shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Raz Paul , Yuval Friedman , Kobi Cohen

Two widely considered decentralized learning algorithms are Gossip and random walk-based learning. Gossip algorithms (both synchronous and asynchronous versions) suffer from high communication cost, while random-walk based learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Peyman Gholami , Hulya Seferoglu

State-of-the-art training algorithms for deep learning models are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Recently, many variations have been explored: perturbing parameters for better accuracy (such as in Extragradient), limiting SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

Decentralized optimization with time-varying networks is an emerging paradigm in machine learning. It saves remarkable communication overhead in large-scale deep training and is more robust in wireless scenarios especially when nodes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xinmeng Huang , Kun Yuan

In this paper, an orthogonal stochastic gradient descent (O-SGD) based learning approach is proposed to tackle the wireless channel over-training problem inherent in artificial neural network (ANN)-assisted MIMO signal detection. Our basic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Songyan Xue , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

To reduce the long training time of large deep neural network (DNN) models, distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD) is commonly used on a cluster of workers. However, the speedup brought by multiple workers is limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Decentralized training has been actively studied in recent years. Although a wide variety of methods have been proposed, yet the decentralized momentum SGD method is still underexplored. In this paper, we propose a novel periodic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hongchang Gao , Heng Huang

Neural network optimization remains one of the most consequential yet poorly understood challenges in modern AI research, where improvements in training algorithms can lead to enhanced feature learning in foundation models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ansh Nagwekar

In this work, we exploit an asynchronous computing framework namely ARock to learn a deep neural network called self-size estimating feedforward neural network (SSFN) in a decentralized scenario. Using this algorithm namely asynchronous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-13 Xinyue Liang , Alireza M. Javid , Mikael Skoglund , Saikat Chatterjee

Decentralized stochastic optimization has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for large-scale machine learning. However, practical implementations often rely on biased gradient estimators arising from communication compression or inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Qing Xu , Yiwei Liao , Wenqi Fan , Xingxing You , Songyi Dian

We analyze asynchronous-type algorithms for distributed SGD in the heterogeneous setting, where each worker has its own computation and communication speeds, as well as data distribution. In these algorithms, workers compute possibly stale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Rustem Islamov , Mher Safaryan , Dan Alistarh

Decentralized stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) is an efficient method for large-scale distributed learning. Existing generalization studies mainly address expected results, achieving rates limited to $\mathcal{O}\left(\frac{1}{\delta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahuan Wang , Ping Luo , Ziqing Wen , Dongsheng Li , Tao Sun