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We present some novel, straightforward methods for training the connection graph of a randomly initialized neural network without training the weights. These methods do not use hyperparameters defining cutoff thresholds and therefore remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Cristian Ivan , Razvan Florian

Statistical and systematic challenges in collaboratively training machine learning models across distributed networks of mobile devices have been the bottlenecks in the real-world application of federated learning. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Fei Chen , Mi Luo , Zhenhua Dong , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He

We propose Compressed Vertical Federated Learning (C-VFL) for communication-efficient training on vertically partitioned data. In C-VFL, a server and multiple parties collaboratively train a model on their respective features utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Timothy Castiglia , Anirban Das , Shiqiang Wang , Stacy Patterson

Federated learning is a promising framework to mitigate data privacy and computation concerns. However, the communication cost between the server and clients has become the major bottleneck for successful deployment. Despite notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang He , Hui-Po Wang , Maximilian Zenk , Mario Fritz

Modern iterations of deep learning models contain millions (billions) of unique parameters, each represented by a b-bit number. Popular attempts at compressing neural networks (such as pruning and quantisation) have shown that many of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Christopher Subia-Waud , Srinandan Dasmahapatra

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server but faces challenges in efficiency, stability, and trustworthiness due to communication and computational limitations among distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Communication on heterogeneous edge networks is a fundamental bottleneck in Federated Learning (FL), restricting both model capacity and user participation. To address this issue, we introduce two novel strategies to reduce communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sebastian Caldas , Jakub Konečny , H. Brendan McMahan , Ameet Talwalkar

Deepening and widening convolutional neural networks (CNNs) significantly increases the number of trainable weight parameters by adding more convolutional layers and feature maps per layer, respectively. By imposing inter- and intra-group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kevin Bui , Fredrick Park , Shuai Zhang , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training across decentralized data, but faces key challenges of bidirectional communication overhead and client-side data heterogeneity. To address communication costs while embracing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiacheng Cheng , Xu Zhang , Guanghui Qiu , Yifang Zhang , Yinchuan Li , Kaiyuan Feng

In this paper, we propose a novel method for enhancing security in privacy-preserving federated learning using the Vision Transformer. In federated learning, learning is performed by collecting updated information without collecting raw…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hiroto Sawada , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya

Federated learning has recently emerged as a paradigm promising the benefits of harnessing rich data from diverse sources to train high quality models, with the salient features that training datasets never leave local devices. Only model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yifeng Zheng , Shangqi Lai , Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Xun Yi , Cong Wang

Sparse training is a natural idea to accelerate the training speed of deep neural networks and save the memory usage, especially since large modern neural networks are significantly over-parameterized. However, most of the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Zonghao Chen , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

The high communication cost of sending model updates from the clients to the server is a significant bottleneck for scalable federated learning (FL). Among existing approaches, state-of-the-art bitrate-accuracy tradeoffs have been achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Berivan Isik , Francesco Pase , Deniz Gunduz , Sanmi Koyejo , Tsachy Weissman , Michele Zorzi

The performance and efficiency of distributed training of Deep Neural Networks highly depend on the performance of gradient averaging among all participating nodes, which is bounded by the communication between nodes. There are two major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linnan Wang , Wei Wu , Junyu Zhang , Hang Liu , George Bosilca , Maurice Herlihy , Rodrigo Fonseca

Federated learning can train models without directly providing local data to the server. However, the frequent updating of the local model brings the problem of large communication overhead. Recently, scholars have achieved the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ying Zhuansun , Dandan Li , Xiaohong Huang , Caijun Sun

Detector-based and detector-free matchers are only applicable within their respective sparsity ranges. To improve adaptability of existing matchers, this paper introduces a novel probabilistic reweighting method. Our method is applicable to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Ya Fan , Rongling Lang

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

We propose a new method for detecting changes in Markov network structure between two sets of samples. Instead of naively fitting two Markov network models separately to the two data sets and figuring out their difference, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-03 Song Liu , John A. Quinn , Michael U. Gutmann , Taiji Suzuki , Masashi Sugiyama

In distributed optimization for large-scale learning, a major performance limitation comes from the communications between the different entities. When computations are performed by workers on local data while a coordinator machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Dmitry Grishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Massih-Reza Amini

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed method to train a global model over a set of local clients while keeping data localized. It reduces the risks of privacy and security but faces important challenges including expensive communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Seonhyeong Kim , Jiheon Woo , Daewon Seo , Yongjune Kim