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The framework of distributed computing, consisting of several spatially separated input-output servers, has immense importance in distant data manipulation. One of the most challenging parts of this setting is to optimize the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Sutapa Saha , Tamal Guha , Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Manik Banik

This paper introduces Distribution-Flexible Subset Quantization (DFSQ), a post-training quantization method for super-resolution networks. Our motivation for developing DFSQ is based on the distinctive activation distributions of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yunshan Zhong , Mingbao Lin , Jingjing Xie , Yuxin Zhang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

This paper considers decentralized consensus optimization problems where nodes of a network have access to different summands of a global objective function. Nodes cooperate to minimize the global objective by exchanging information with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

In the era of big data, it is necessary to split extremely large data sets across multiple computing nodes and construct estimators using the distributed data. When designing distributed estimators, it is desirable to minimize the amount of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Azeem Zaman , Botond Szabó

We analyze the scattering transform with the quadratic nonlinearity (STQN) of Gaussian processes without depth limitation. STQN is a nonlinear transform that involves a sequential interlacing convolution and nonlinear operators, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Gi-Ren Liu , Yuan-Chung Sheu , Hau-Tieng Wu

Quasi-Newton methods still face significant challenges in training large-scale neural networks due to additional compute costs in the Hessian related computations and instability issues in stochastic training. A well-known method, L-BFGS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yue Niu , Zalan Fabian , Sunwoo Lee , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

Diffusion-based generative models have reformed generative AI, and also enabled new capabilities in the science domain, e.g., fast generation of 3D structures of molecules. In such tasks, there is often a symmetry in the system, identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yixian Xu , Yusong Wang , Shengjie Luo , Kaiyuan Gao , Tianyu He , Di He , Chang Liu

The paper considers a class of multi-agent Markov decision processes (MDPs), in which the network agents respond differently (as manifested by the instantaneous one-stage random costs) to a global controlled state and the control actions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-04 Soummya Kar , Jose' M. F. Moura , H. Vincent Poor

Neural networks capable of accurate, input-conditional uncertainty representation are essential for real-world AI systems. Deep ensembles of Gaussian networks have proven highly effective for continuous regression due to their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Spencer Young , Porter Jenkins , Longchao Da , Jeff Dotson , Hua Wei

We consider the problem of distributed learning, where a network of agents collectively aim to agree on a hypothesis that best explains a set of distributed observations of conditionally independent random processes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César A. Uribe

Quadratic programming (QP) forms a crucial foundation in optimization, encompassing a broad spectrum of domains and serving as the basis for more advanced algorithms. Consequently, as the scale and complexity of modern applications continue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Augustinos D. Saravanos , Hunter Kuperman , Alex Oshin , Arshiya Taj Abdul , Vincent Pacelli , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of convergence properties. This work develops an alternative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ermin Wei , Asuman Ozdaglar , Ali Jadbabaie

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are a powerful tool for probabilistic modeling, but their performance is often constrained in complex, large-scale real-world domains due to the limited expressivity of classical kernels. Quantum computing offers…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Meet Gandhi , George P. Kontoudis

We study distributed algorithms for expected loss minimization where the datasets are large and have to be stored on different machines. Often we deal with minimizing the average of a set of convex functions where each function is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Samira Sheikhi

Using a dissipative quantum neural network (DQNN) accompanied by conjugate layers, we upgrade the performance of the existing quantum auto-encoder (QAE) network as a quantum denoiser of a noisy m-qubit GHZ state. Our new denoising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Armin Ahmadkhaniha , Marzieh Bathaee

To address the communication bottleneck challenge in distributed learning, our work introduces a novel two-stage quantization strategy designed to enhance the communication efficiency of distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guangfeng Yan , Tan Li , Yuanzhang Xiao , Congduan Li , Linqi Song

Diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis through iterative noise estimation using deep neural networks. However, the slow inference, high memory consumption, and computation intensity of the noise estimation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xiuyu Li , Yijiang Liu , Long Lian , Huanrui Yang , Zhen Dong , Daniel Kang , Shanghang Zhang , Kurt Keutzer

It is not unusual for a data analyst to encounter data sets distributed across several computers. This can happen for reasons such as privacy concerns, efficiency of likelihood evaluations, or just the sheer size of the whole data set. This…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-22 Randy C. S. Lai , J. Hannig , Thomas C. M. Lee

In this paper, we present a scalable distributed implementation of the Sampled Limited-memory Symmetric Rank-1 (S-LSR1) algorithm. First, we show that a naive distributed implementation of S-LSR1 requires multiple rounds of expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Majid Jahani , Mohammadreza Nazari , Sergey Rusakov , Albert S. Berahas , Martin Takáč

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) combines the computing power of multiple networked quantum processing modules, enabling the execution of large quantum circuits without compromising on performance and connectivity. Photonic networks are…