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This paper presents fault-tolerant asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithms. SGD is widely used for approximating the minimum of a cost function $Q$, as a core part of optimization and learning algorithms. Our algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Hagit Attiya , Noa Schiller

The increasing size of deep learning models has made distributed training across multiple devices essential. However, current methods such as distributed data-parallel training suffer from large communication and synchronization overheads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Cabrel Teguemne Fokam , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Lukas König , David Kappel , Anand Subramoney

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a workhorse in machine learning, yet its slow convergence can be a computational bottleneck. Variance reduction techniques such as SAG, SVRG and SAGA have been proposed to overcome this weakness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Thomas Hofmann , Aurelien Lucchi , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Brian McWilliams

We propose a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)-type algorithm for Personalized Federated Learning which can be particularly attractive for mobile energy-limited regimes due to its low per-client computational cost. The model to be trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sotirios Nikoloutsopoulos , Iordanis Koutsopoulos , Michalis K. Titsias

In federated distributed learning, the goal is to optimize a global training objective defined over distributed devices, where the data shard at each device is sampled from a possibly different distribution (a.k.a., heterogeneous or non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Farzin Haddadpour , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Communicating information, like gradient vectors, between computing nodes in distributed and federated learning is typically an unavoidable burden, resulting in scalability issues. Indeed, communication might be slow and costly. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Alyazeed Albasyoni , Mher Safaryan , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) holds as a classical method to build large scale machine learning models over big data. A stochastic gradient is typically calculated from a limited number of samples (known as mini-batch), so it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Yadong Mu , Wei Liu , Wei Fan

With rise of machine learning (ML) and the proliferation of smart mobile devices, recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in performing ML in wireless edge networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of jointly improving data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

Although the distributed machine learning methods can speed up the training of large deep neural networks, the communication cost has become the non-negligible bottleneck to constrain the performance. To address this challenge, the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 An Xu , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Low-rank gradient compression methods, such as PowerSGD, have gained attention in communication-efficient distributed optimization. However, the convergence guarantees of PowerSGD remain unclear, particularly in stochastic settings. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Shengping Xie , Chuyan Chen , Kun Yuan

Distributed machine learning has recently become a critical paradigm for training large models on vast datasets. We examine the stochastic optimization problem for deep learning within synchronous parallel computing environments under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yoni Choukroun , Shlomi Azoulay , Pavel Kisilev

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been a go-to algorithm for nonconvex stochastic optimization problems arising in machine learning. Its theory however often requires a strong framework to guarantee convergence properties. We hereby…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Azar Louzi

In this paper, we study the performance of a large family of SGD variants in the smooth nonconvex regime. To this end, we propose a generic and flexible assumption capable of accurate modeling of the second moment of the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Zhize Li , Peter Richtárik

Communication has been seen as a significant bottleneck in industrial applications over large-scale networks. To alleviate the communication burden, sign-based optimization algorithms have gained popularity recently in both industrial and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Xiuxian Li , Kuo-Yi Lin , Li Li , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen

We study to what extent may stochastic gradient descent (SGD) be understood as a "conventional" learning rule that achieves generalization performance by obtaining a good fit to training data. We consider the fundamental stochastic convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Tomer Koren , Roi Livni , Yishay Mansour , Uri Sherman

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has become one of the most popular optimization methods for training machine learning models on massive datasets. However, SGD suffers from two main drawbacks: (i) The noisy gradient updates have high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Soham De , Tom Goldstein

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is one of the most widely used optimization methods for parallel and distributed processing of large datasets. One of the key limitations of distributed SGD is the need to regularly communicate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Variance reduction methods such as SVRG and SpiderBoost use a mixture of large and small batch gradients to reduce the variance of stochastic gradients. Compared to SGD, these methods require at least double the number of operations per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Melih Elibol , Lihua Lei , Michael I. Jordan

We study distributed optimization problems over a network when the communication between the nodes is constrained, and so information that is exchanged between the nodes must be quantized. Recent advances using the distributed gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

Under mild assumptions stochastic gradient methods asymptotically achieve an optimal rate of convergence if the arithmetic mean of all iterates is returned as an approximate optimal solution. However, in the absence of stochastic noise, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Melinda Hagedorn , Florian Jarre