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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

State-of-the-art training algorithms for deep learning models are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Recently, many variations have been explored: perturbing parameters for better accuracy (such as in Extragradient), limiting SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

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

Learned image compression (LIC) using deep learning architectures has seen significant advancements, yet standard rate-distortion (R-D) optimization often encounters imbalanced updates due to diverse gradients of the rate and distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Yichi Zhang , Zhihao Duan , Yuning Huang , Fengqing Zhu

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

Synchronous stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the most common method used for distributed training of deep learning models. In this algorithm, each worker shares its local gradients with others and updates the parameters using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Negar Foroutan Eghlidi , Martin Jaggi

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach for distributed machine learning, enhancing online personalization while ensuring user data privacy. Instead of sending private data to a central server as in traditional approaches, FL…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Francesco Fabbri , Xianghang Liu , Jack R. McKenzie , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Federated learning~(FL) has recently attracted increasing attention from academia and industry, with the ultimate goal of achieving collaborative training under privacy and communication constraints. Existing iterative model averaging based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yuanhao Xiong , Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Felix Yu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

In federated learning (FL), a number of devices train their local models and upload the corresponding parameters or gradients to the base station (BS) to update the global model while protecting their data privacy. However, due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li , Zhichao Zhang , Jiguang He

Distributed learning frameworks often rely on exchanging model parameters across workers, instead of revealing their raw data. A prime example is federated learning that exchanges the gradients or weights of each neural network model. Under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Seungeun Oh , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Lossy gradient compression has become a practical tool to overcome the communication bottleneck in centrally coordinated distributed training of machine learning models. However, algorithms for decentralized training with compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Thijs Vogels , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Martin Jaggi

Quantization is a common approach to mitigate the communication cost of federated learning (FL). In practice, the quantized local parameters are further encoded via an entropy coding technique, such as Huffman coding, for efficient data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Ali Bereyhi

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving method for training machine learning models in a distributed manner on edge devices. However, on-device models face inherent computational power and memory limitations, potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Kin Wai Lau , Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Lai-Man Po , Lan Ma , Yuyang Xie

Federated Learning (FL) is constrained by the communication and energy limitations of decentralized edge devices. While gradient sparsification via Top-K magnitude pruning effectively reduces the communication payload, it remains inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Emmanouil M. Athanasakos

As a paradigm of distributed machine learning, federated learning typically requires all edge devices to train a complete model locally. However, with the increasing scale of artificial intelligence models, the limited resources on edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Junhe Zhang , Wanli Ni , Dongyu Wang

Due to the explosion in the size of the training datasets, distributed learning has received growing interest in recent years. One of the major bottlenecks is the large communication cost between the central server and the local workers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

Fine-tuning is essential to adapt general-purpose large language models (LLMs) to domain-specific tasks. As a privacy-preserving framework to leverage decentralized data for collaborative model training, Federated Learning (FL) is gaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Guohao Yang , Tongle Wu , Yuanxiong Guo , Ying Sun , Yanmin Gong

Training large-scale distributed machine learning models imposes considerable demands on network infrastructure, often resulting in sudden traffic spikes that lead to congestion, increased latency, and reduced throughput, which would…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yisu Wang , Xinjiao Li , Ruilong Wu , Huangxun Chen , Dirk Kutscher

Federated learning must address heterogeneity, strict communication and computation limits, and privacy while ensuring performance. We propose an operator-theoretic framework that maps the $L^2$-optimal solution into a reproducing kernel…

The Federated Learning (FL) workflow of training a centralized model with distributed data is growing in popularity. However, until recently, this was the realm of contributing clients with similar computing capability. The fast expanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Hongrui Shi , Valentin Radu