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Recently, discriminatively learned correlation filters (DCF) has drawn much attention in visual object tracking community. The success of DCF is potentially attributed to the fact that a large amount of samples are utilized to train the…

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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a simple and popular method to solve stochastic optimization problems which arise in machine learning. For strongly convex problems, its convergence rate was known to be O(\log(T)/T), by running SGD for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Alexander Rakhlin , Ohad Shamir , Karthik Sridharan

We propose Local Momentum Tracking (LMT), a novel distributed stochastic gradient method for solving distributed optimization problems over networks. To reduce communication overhead, LMT enables each agent to perform multiple local updates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Kun Huang , Shi Pu

In this paper, we introduce an accelerated distributed stochastic gradient method with momentum for solving the distributed optimization problem, where a group of $n$ agents collaboratively minimize the average of the local objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Kun Huang , Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić

We develop a Distributed Event-Triggered Stochastic GRAdient Descent (DETSGRAD) algorithm for solving non-convex optimization problems typically encountered in distributed deep learning. We propose a novel communication triggering mechanism…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Jemin George , Prudhvi Gurram

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a fundamental algorithm in machine learning, representing the optimization backbone for training several classic models, from regression to neural networks. Given the recent practical focus on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Dan Alistarh , Christopher De Sa , Nikola Konstantinov

This paper considers a distributed stochastic strongly convex optimization, where agents connected over a network aim to cooperatively minimize the average of all agents' local cost functions. Due to the stochasticity of gradient estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen , Yiguang Hong

We propose an inexact decentralized dual gradient tracking method (iDDGT) for decentralized optimization problems with a globally coupled equality constraint. Unlike existing algorithms that rely on either the exact dual gradient or an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Jingwang Li , Housheng Su

One of the key challenges in decentralized and federated learning is to design algorithms that efficiently deal with highly heterogeneous data distributions across agents. In this paper, we revisit the analysis of the popular Decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Batiste Le Bars , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Erick Lavoie , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

In this paper, we study convex optimization problems where agents of a network cooperatively minimize the global objective function which consists of multiple local objective functions. Different from most of the existing works, the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Huaqing Li , Lifeng Zheng , Zheng Wang , Yu Yan , Liping Feng , Jing Guo

In this work, we consider the problem of a network of agents collectively minimizing a sum of convex functions. The agents in our setting can only access their local objective functions and exchange information with their immediate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Charikleia Iakovidou , Ermin Wei

In this paper, we consider the decentralized optimization problems with generalized orthogonality constraints, where both the objective function and the constraint exhibit a distributed structure. Such optimization problems, albeit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Lei Wang , Nachuan Xiao , Xin Liu

This paper investigates distributed online convex optimization in the presence of an aggregative variable without any global/central coordinators over a multi-agent network, where each individual agent is only able to access partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Xiuxian Li , Xinlei Yi , Lihua Xie

Gradient descent (GD) is a collection of continuous optimization methods that have achieved immeasurable success in practice. Owing to data science applications, GD with diminishing step sizes has become a prominent variant. While this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Vivak Patel , Albert S. Berahas

Decentralized learning enables a group of collaborative agents to learn models using a distributed dataset without the need for a central parameter server. Recently, decentralized learning algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yasaman Esfandiari , Sin Yong Tan , Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Ethan Herron , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

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 focus on the decentralized stochastic subgradient-based methods in minimizing nonsmooth nonconvex functions without Clarke regularity, especially in the decentralized training of nonsmooth neural networks. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Siyuan Zhang , Nachuan Xiao , Xin Liu

This paper deals with a network of computing agents aiming to solve an online optimization problem in a distributed fashion, i.e., by means of local computation and communication, without any central coordinator. We propose the gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Francesco Farina , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We consider decentralized gradient-free optimization of minimizing Lipschitz continuous functions that satisfy neither smoothness nor convexity assumption. We propose two novel gradient-free algorithms, the Decentralized Gradient-Free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Zhenwei Lin , Jingfan Xia , Qi Deng , Luo Luo

In this paper, we design two compressed decentralized algorithms for solving nonconvex stochastic optimization under two different scenarios. Both algorithms adopt a momentum technique to achieve fast convergence and a message-compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wei Liu , Anweshit Panda , Ujwal Pandey , Christopher Brissette , Yikang Shen , George M. Slota , Naigang Wang , Jie Chen , Yangyang Xu