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The training phases of Deep neural network~(DNN) consumes enormous processing time and energy. Compression techniques utilizing the sparsity of DNNs can effectively accelerate the inference phase of DNNs. However, it is hardly used in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Zhuoran Song , Yihong Xu , Han Li , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

Many algorithms for control of multi-robot teams operate under the assumption that low-latency, global state information necessary to coordinate agent actions can readily be disseminated among the team. However, in harsh environments with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Ekaterina Tolstaya , Landon Butler , Daniel Mox , James Paulos , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

The convergence speed of machine learning models trained with Federated Learning is significantly affected by heterogeneous data partitions, even more so in a fully decentralized setting without a central server. In this paper, we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Aurélien Bellet , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erick Lavoie

Emerging intelligent embedded devices rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to be able to interact with the real-world environment. This interaction comes with the ability to retrain DNNs, since environmental conditions change continuously in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Reza Hojabr , Kamyar Givaki , Kossar Pourahmadi , Parsa Nooralinejad , Ahmad Khonsari , Dara Rahmati , M. Hassan Najafi

Communication overhead poses an important obstacle to distributed DNN training and draws increasing attention in recent years. Despite continuous efforts, prior solutions such as gradient compression/reduction, compute/communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Hao Wang , Jingrong Chen , Xinchen Wan , Han Tian , Jiacheng Xia , Gaoxiong Zeng , Weiyan Wang , Kai Chen , Wei Bai , Junchen Jiang

In this empirical paper, we investigate how learning agents can be arranged in more efficient communication topologies for improved learning. This is an important problem because a common technique to improve speed and robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Dhaval Adjodah , Dan Calacci , Abhimanyu Dubey , Peter Krafft , Esteban Moro , Alex `Sandy' Pentland

Task offloading is a widely used technology in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which declines the completion time of user task with the help of resourceful edge servers. Existing works mainly focus on the case that the computation density of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Zequn Cao , Xiaoheng Deng

With increasing data and model complexities, the time required to train neural networks has become prohibitively large. To address the exponential rise in training time, users are turning to data parallel neural networks (DPNN) to utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Daniel Coquelin , Charlotte Debus , Markus Götz , Fabrice von der Lehr , James Kahn , Martin Siggel , Achim Streit

In this study, we introduce a domain-decomposition-based distributed training and inference approach for message-passing neural networks (MPNN). Our objective is to address the challenge of scaling edge-based graph neural networks as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Priyesh Kakka , Sheel Nidhan , Rishikesh Ranade , Jay Pathak , Jonathan F. MacArt

Federated learning, where algorithms are trained across multiple decentralized devices without sharing local data, is increasingly popular in distributed machine learning practice. Typically, a graph structure $G$ exists behind local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Huiyuan Wang , Xuyang Zhao , Wei Lin

Despite the notable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in solving complex tasks, the training process still remains considerable challenges. A primary obstacle is the substantial time required for training, particularly as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Data-driven machine learning approaches have recently been proposed to facilitate wireless network optimization by learning latent knowledge from historical optimization instances. However, existing methods do not well handle the topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Shuai Zhang , Bo Yin , Yu Cheng

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art deep learning model for representation learning on graphs. It is challenging to accelerate training of GCNs, due to (1) substantial and irregular data communication to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Hanqing Zeng , Viktor Prasanna

Recently, distributed GNN training frameworks, such as DistDGL and PyG, have been developed to enable training GNN models on large graphs by leveraging multiple GPUs in a distributed manner. Despite these advances, their memory requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Huang , Weipeng Zhuo , Minh Phu Vuong , Shiju Li , Jongryool Kim , Bradley Rees , Chul-Ho Lee

Learning a faithful directed acyclic graph (DAG) from samples of a joint distribution is a challenging combinatorial problem, owing to the intractable search space superexponential in the number of graph nodes. A recent breakthrough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Yue Yu , Jie Chen , Tian Gao , Mo Yu

The method of choice for parameter aggregation in Deep Neural Network (DNN) training, a network-intensive task, is shifting from the Parameter Server model to decentralized aggregation schemes (AllReduce) inspired by theoretical guarantees…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Sayed Hadi Hashemi , Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi , Brighten Godfrey , Roy Campbell

Multimodal data empowers machine learning models to better understand the world from various perspectives. In this work, we study the combination of \emph{text and graph} modalities, a challenging but understudied combination which is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Yuexin Li , Bryan Hooi

Graph neural networks (GNNs) fuel diverse machine learning tasks involving graph-structured data, ranging from predicting protein structures to serving personalized recommendations. Real-world graph data must often be stored distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Aashish Kolluri , Sarthak Choudhary , Bryan Hooi , Prateek Saxena

When designing large-scale distributed controllers, the information-sharing constraints between sub-controllers, as defined by a communication topology interconnecting them, are as important as the controller itself. Controllers implemented…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Fengjun Yang , Nikolai Matni

The wireless network is undergoing a trend from "onnection of things" to "connection of intelligence". With data spread over the communication networks and computing capability enhanced on the devices, distributed learning becomes a hot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jian Wang , Yourui Huangfu , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang