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With the rapid increase of big data, distributed Machine Learning (ML) has been widely applied in training large-scale models. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is arguably the workhorse algorithm of ML. Distributed ML models trained by SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Keyu Yang , Lu Chen , Zhihao Zeng , Yunjun Gao

Large-scale distributed learning aims at minimizing a loss function $L$ that depends on a training dataset with respect to a $d$-length parameter vector. The distributed cluster typically consists of a parameter server (PS) and multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sifat Munim , Aditya Ramamoorthy

This paper presents a holistic approach to gradient leakage resilient distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). First, we analyze two types of strategies for privacy-enhanced federated learning: (i) gradient pruning with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Jingya Zhou , Ka-Ho Chow , Yanzhao Wu

We propose a novel, efficient approach for distributed sparse learning in high-dimensions, where observations are randomly partitioned across machines. Computationally, at each round our method only requires the master machine to solve a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-26 Jialei Wang , Mladen Kolar , Nathan Srebro , Tong Zhang

The state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms rely on distributed training systems to tackle the increasing sizes of models and training data sets. Minibatch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm requires workers to halt forward/back…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Qinggang Zhou , Yawen Zhang , Pengcheng Li , Xiaoyong Liu , Jun Yang , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang

Parallel implementations of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have received significant research attention, thanks to excellent scalability properties of this algorithm, and to its efficiency in the context of training deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Dan Alistarh , Demjan Grubic , Jerry Li , Ryota Tomioka , Milan Vojnovic

Consider the following distributed optimization scenario. A worker has access to training data that it uses to compute the gradients while a server decides when to stop iterative computation based on its target accuracy or delay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Chung-Yi Lin , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

Although Federated Learning has been widely studied in recent years, there are still high overhead expenses in each communication round for large-scale models such as Vision Transformer. To lower the communication complexity, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junkang Liu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Yuangang Li , YunXiang Gong

In modern parametric model training, full-batch gradient descent (and its variants) suffers due to progressively stronger biasing towards the exact realization of training data; this drives the systematic ``generalization gap'', where the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Max Lovig

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is one of the most widely used optimization methods for solving various machine learning problems. SGD solves an optimization problem by iteratively sampling a few data points from the input data, computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Aditya Devarakonda , James Demmel

Training a sparse neural network from scratch requires optimizing connections at the same time as the weights themselves. Typically, the weights are redistributed after a predefined number of weight updates, removing a fraction of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Mathias Parger , Alexander Ertl , Paul Eibensteiner , Joerg H. Mueller , Martin Winter , Markus Steinberger

Despite the recent success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), training GNNs on large graphs remains challenging. The limited resource capacities of the existing servers, the dependency between nodes in a graph, and the privacy concern due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Morteza Ramezani , Weilin Cong , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Mahmut T. Kandemir , Anand Sivasubramaniam

With the rapid growth of data, distributed momentum stochastic gradient descent~(DMSGD) has been widely used in distributed learning, especially for training large-scale deep models. Due to the latency and limited bandwidth of the network,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-04 Chang-Wei Shi , Shen-Yi Zhao , Yin-Peng Xie , Hao Gao , Wu-Jun Li

Gradient compression with error compensation has attracted significant attention with the target of reducing the heavy communication overhead in distributed learning. However, existing compression methods either perform only unidirectional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yifei Cheng , Li Shen , Linli Xu , Xun Qian , Shiwei Wu , Yiming Zhou , Tie Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Enhong Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel kernel stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm for large-scale supervised learning with general losses. Compared to traditional kernel SGD, our algorithm improves efficiency and scalability through an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinhui Bai , Andreas Christmann , Lei Shi

Training large neural networks requires distributing learning across multiple workers, where the cost of communicating gradients can be a significant bottleneck. signSGD alleviates this problem by transmitting just the sign of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Jeremy Bernstein , Yu-Xiang Wang , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

In distributed training, the communication cost due to the transmission of gradients or the parameters of the deep model is a major bottleneck in scaling up the number of processing nodes. To address this issue, we propose \emph{dithered…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Afshin Abdi , Faramarz Fekri

A standard approach in large scale machine learning is distributed stochastic gradient training, which requires the computation of aggregated stochastic gradients over multiple nodes on a network. Communication is a major bottleneck in such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Chen Yu , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

Applying Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) to training modern, large-scale neural networks such as transformer-based models is a challenging task, as the magnitude of noise added to the gradients at each iteration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ryuichi Ito , Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yuya Sasaki , Makoto Onizuka

In this paper, we study communication-efficient distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with data sets of users distributed over a certain area and communicating through wireless channels. Since the time for one iteration in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jinho Choi