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The high cost of communicating gradients is a major bottleneck for federated learning, as the bandwidth of the participating user devices is limited. Existing gradient compression algorithms are mainly designed for data centers with…
Federated learning is a popular distributed and privacy-preserving learning paradigm in machine learning. Recently, some federated learning algorithms have been proposed to solve the distributed minimax problems. However, these federated…
We propose an algorithm for inexpensive gradient-based hyperparameter optimization that combines the implicit function theorem (IFT) with efficient inverse Hessian approximations. We present results about the relationship between the IFT…
To improve business efficiency and minimize costs, Artificial Intelligence (AI) practitioners have adopted a shift from formulating models from scratch towards sharing pretrained models. The pretrained models are then aggregated into a…
Federated learning is widely used to learn intelligent models from decentralized data. In federated learning, clients need to communicate their local model updates in each iteration of model learning. However, model updates are large in…
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…
Federated learning (FL) is a prevailing distributed learning paradigm, where a large number of workers jointly learn a model without sharing their training data. However, high communication costs could arise in FL due to large-scale (deep)…
Gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) is a powerful and widely-used machine learning model, which has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many academic areas and production environment. However, communication overhead is the main…
High network communication cost for synchronizing gradients and parameters is the well-known bottleneck of distributed training. In this work, we propose TernGrad that uses ternary gradients to accelerate distributed deep learning in data…
In this paper, a Federated Learning (FL) simulation platform is introduced. The target scenario is Acoustic Model training based on this platform. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply FL techniques to Speech Recognition…
Communication constraints are one of the major challenges preventing the wide-spread adoption of Federated Learning systems. Recently, Federated Distillation (FD), a new algorithmic paradigm for Federated Learning with fundamentally…
We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…
Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…
This paper studies a class of distributed optimization problems with coupled equality constraints in networked systems. Many existing distributed algorithms rely on solving local subproblems via the $\operatorname{argmin}$ operator in each…
Federated learning (FL) aims to train machine learning models in the decentralized system consisting of an enormous amount of smart edge devices. Federated averaging (FedAvg), the fundamental algorithm in FL settings, proposes on-device…
One of the main focuses in distributed learning is communication efficiency, since model aggregation at each round of training can consist of millions to billions of parameters. Several model compression methods, such as gradient…
Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising distributed machine learning framework to preserve clients' privacy, by allowing multiple clients to upload the gradients calculated from their local data to a central server.…
In modern data science, it is common that large-scale data are stored and processed parallelly across a great number of locations. For reasons including confidentiality concerns, only limited data information from each parallel center is…
Distributed data mining is an emerging research topic to effectively and efficiently address hard data mining tasks using big data, which are partitioned and computed on different worker nodes, instead of one centralized server.…
With the prevalence of Large Learning Models (LLM), Split Federated Learning (SFL), which divides a learning model into server-side and client-side models, has emerged as an appealing technology to deal with the heavy computational burden…