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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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Distributed training is an effective way to accelerate the training process of large-scale deep learning models. However, the parameter exchange and synchronization of distributed stochastic gradient descent introduce a large amount of…

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To accelerate the training of machine learning models, distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants have been widely adopted, which apply multiple workers in parallel to speed up training. Among them, Local SGD has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Xianfeng Liang , Shuheng Shen , Jingchang Liu , Zhen Pan , Enhong Chen , Yifei Cheng

Most commonly used distributed machine learning systems are either synchronous or centralized asynchronous. Synchronous algorithms like AllReduce-SGD perform poorly in a heterogeneous environment, while asynchronous algorithms using a…

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With the increase in the amount of data and the expansion of model scale, distributed parallel training becomes an important and successful technique to address the optimization challenges. Nevertheless, although distributed stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shuheng Shen , Linli Xu , Jingchang Liu , Xianfeng Liang , Yifei Cheng

We consider the problem of how to reduce the cost of communication that is required for the parallel training of a neural network. The state-of-the-art method, Bulk Synchronous Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent (BSP-SGD), requires many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Linnan Wang , Wei Wu , George Bosilca , Richard Vuduc , Zenglin Xu

Reducing communication in training large-scale machine learning applications on distributed platform is still a big challenge. To address this issue, we propose a distributed hierarchical averaging stochastic gradient descent (Hier-AVG)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fan Zhou , Guojing Cong

Synchronous mini-batch SGD is state-of-the-art for large-scale distributed machine learning. However, in practice, its convergence is bottlenecked by slow communication rounds between worker nodes. A natural solution to reduce communication…

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Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) approach has been widely used in large-scale deep learning, and the gradient collective method is vital to ensure the training scalability of the distributed deep learning system. Collective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Keshi Ge , Yongquan Fu , Zhiquan Lai , Xiaoge Deng , Dongsheng Li

In distributed training of deep neural networks, people usually run Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) or its variants on each machine and communicate with other machines periodically. However, SGD might converge slowly in training some deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Mingrui Liu , Zhenxun Zhuang , Yunwei Lei , Chunyang Liao

A very large number of communications are typically required to solve distributed learning tasks, and this critically limits scalability and convergence speed in wireless communications applications. In this paper, we devise a Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yicheng Chen , Rick S. Blum , Martin Takac , Brian M. Sadler

Wall-clock convergence time and communication load are key performance metrics for the distributed implementation of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in parameter server settings. Communication-adaptive distributed Adam (CADA) has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Xin Wang

Communication is a crucial phase in the context of distributed training. Because parameter server (PS) frequently experiences network congestion, recent studies have found that training paradigms without a centralized server outperform the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Feijie Wu , Shiqi He , Yutong Yang , Haozhao Wang , Zhihao Qu , Song Guo , Weihua Zhuang

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

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…

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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

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

Large-scale distributed training of neural networks is often limited by network bandwidth, wherein the communication time overwhelms the local computation time. Motivated by the success of sketching methods in sub-linear/streaming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Nikita Ivkin , Daniel Rothchild , Enayat Ullah , Vladimir Braverman , Ion Stoica , Raman Arora

We consider the distributed learning problem with data dispersed across multiple workers under the orchestration of a central server. Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has been widely explored in such a setting to reduce the…

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