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Valuable training data is often owned by independent organizations and located in multiple data centers. Most deep learning approaches require to centralize the multi-datacenter data for performance purpose. In practice, however, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Kele Xu , Haibo Mi , Dawei Feng , Huaimin Wang , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng , Xu Lan

Personalized decentralized learning is a promising paradigm for distributed learning, enabling each node to train a local model on its own data and collaborate with other nodes to improve without sharing any data. However, this approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Edvin Listo Zec , Johan Östman , Olof Mogren , Daniel Gillblad

The expansion of AI toward the edge increasingly exposes the cost and fragility of cen- tralised intelligence. Data transmission, latency, energy consumption, and dependence on large data centres create bottlenecks that scale poorly across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Eiman Kanjo , Mustafa Aslanov

As the complexity of our neural network models grow, so too do the data and computation requirements for successful training. One proposed solution to this problem is training on a distributed network of computational devices, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Kyle Crandall , Dustin Webb

Distributed deep learning systems (DDLS) train deep neural network models by utilizing the distributed resources of a cluster. Developers of DDLS are required to make many decisions to process their particular workloads in their chosen…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Matthias Langer , Zhen He , Wenny Rahayu , Yanbo Xue

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging technique that allows nodes on the web to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data. Dealing with stragglers, i.e., nodes with slower compute or communication than…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexis Marouani , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized AI development, yet the resource demands beyond a single cluster or even datacenter, limiting accessibility to well-resourced organizations. Decentralized training has emerged…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haotian Dong , Jingyan Jiang , Rongwei Lu , Jiajun Luo , Jiajun Song , Bowen Li , Ying Shen , Zhi Wang

In this paper we consider online distributed learning problems. Online distributed learning refers to the process of training learning models on distributed data sources. In our setting a set of agents need to cooperatively train a learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Apostolos I. Rikos , Karl H. Johansson

We present Epidemic Learning (EL), a simple yet powerful decentralized learning (DL) algorithm that leverages changing communication topologies to achieve faster model convergence compared to conventional DL approaches. At each round of EL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Martijn de Vos , Sadegh Farhadkhani , Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma

Decentralized Learning (DL) enables privacy-preserving collaboration among organizations or users to enhance the performance of local deep learning models. However, model aggregation becomes challenging when client data is heterogeneous,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Edvin Listo Zec , Tom Hagander , Eric Ihre-Thomason , Sarunas Girdzijauskas

The demand for artificial intelligence has grown significantly over the last decade and this growth has been fueled by advances in machine learning techniques and the ability to leverage hardware acceleration. However, in order to increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Joost Verbraeken , Matthijs Wolting , Jonathan Katzy , Jeroen Kloppenburg , Tim Verbelen , Jan S. Rellermeyer

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), a large number of benchmarks have been proposed. However, most benchmarks lack unified evaluation standard and require the manual implementation of custom scripts, making results…

Distributed machine learning (ML) can bring more computational resources to bear than single-machine learning, thus enabling reductions in training time. Distributed learning partitions models and data over many machines, allowing model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Binhang Yuan , Cameron R. Wolfe , Chen Dun , Yuxin Tang , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Christopher M. Jermaine

Machine learning (ML) is a key technique for big-data-driven modelling and analysis of massive Internet of Things (IoT) based intelligent and ubiquitous computing. For fast-increasing applications and data amounts, distributed learning is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Hao Chen , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Collaborative learning (CL) enables multiple participants to jointly train machine learning (ML) models on decentralized data sources without raw data sharing. While the primary goal of CL is to maximize the expected accuracy gain for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Nurbek Tastan , Samuel Horvath , Karthik Nandakumar

Decentralized optimization has become a standard paradigm for solving large-scale decision-making problems and training large machine learning models without centralizing data. However, this paradigm introduces new privacy and security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Changxin Liu , Nicola Bastianello , Wei Huo , Yang Shi , Karl H. Johansson

In the vibrant landscape of AI research, decentralised learning is gaining momentum. Decentralised learning allows individual nodes to keep data locally where they are generated and to share knowledge extracted from local data among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Luigi Palmieri , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti , János Kertész

Decentralized learning with private data is a central problem in machine learning. We propose a novel distillation-based decentralized learning technique that allows multiple agents with private non-iid data to learn from each other,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler , Nolan Miller , Gus Kristiansen , Max Vladymyrov

Recently, local peer topology has been shown to influence the overall convergence of decentralized learning (DL) graphs in the presence of data heterogeneity. In this paper, we demonstrate the advantages of constructing a proxy-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Waqwoya Abebe , Ali Jannesari

Non-Centralized Continual Learning (NCCL) has become an emerging paradigm for enabling distributed devices such as vehicles and servers to handle streaming data from a joint non-stationary environment. To achieve high reliability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yichen Li , Haozhao Wang , Wenchao Xu , Tianzhe Xiao , Hong Liu , Minzhu Tu , Yuying Wang , Xin Yang , Rui Zhang , Shui Yu , Song Guo , Ruixuan Li