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Optimization in distributed networks plays a central role in almost all distributed machine learning problems. In principle, the use of distributed task allocation has reduced the computational time, allowing better response rates and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Chinwendu Enyioha

Data parallelism has become the de facto standard for training Deep Neural Network on multiple processing units. In this work we propose DC-S3GD, a decentralized (without Parameter Server) stale-synchronous version of the Delay-Compensated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alessandro Rigazzi

Decentralized optimization has become vital for leveraging distributed data without central control, enhancing scalability and privacy. However, practical deployments face fundamental challenges due to heterogeneous computation speeds and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yijie Zhou , Shi Pu

We revisit two fundamental decentralized optimization methods, Decentralized Gradient Tracking (DGT) and Decentralized Gradient Descent (DGD), with multiple local updates. We consider two settings and demonstrate that incorporating local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tongle Wu , Zhize Li , Ying Sun

We consider the distributed learning problem with data dispersed across multiple workers under the orchestration of a central server. Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has been widely explored in such a setting to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaolu Wang , Yuchang Sun , Hoi-To Wai , Jun Zhang

SOTA decentralized SGD algorithms can overcome the bandwidth bottleneck at the parameter server by using communication collectives like Ring All-Reduce for synchronization. While the parameter updates in distributed SGD may happen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Haoze He , Parijat Dube

Synchronous local stochastic gradient descent (local SGD) suffers from some workers being idle and random delays due to slow and straggling workers, as it waits for the workers to complete the same amount of local updates. In this paper, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Xin Wang

Decentralized stochastic optimization methods have gained a lot of attention recently, mainly because of their cheap per iteration cost, data locality, and their communication-efficiency. In this paper we introduce a unified convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Anastasia Koloskova , Nicolas Loizou , Sadra Boreiri , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

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

Synchronous federated learning scales poorly due to the straggler effect. Asynchronous algorithms increase the update throughput by processing updates upon arrival, but they introduce two fundamental challenges: gradient staleness, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Abdelkrim Alahyane , Céline Comte , Matthieu Jonckheere

In decentralized optimization, nodes of a communication network each possess a local objective function, and communicate using gossip-based methods in order to minimize the average of these per-node functions. While synchronous algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Mathieu Even , Hadrien Hendrikx , Laurent Massoulie

With the emergence of distributed data, training machine learning models in the serverless manner has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Numerous training approaches have been proposed in this regime, such as decentralized SGD.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hongchang Gao , Heng Huang

Over the last decades, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has been intensively studied by the Machine Learning community. Despite its versatility and excellent performance, the optimization of large models via SGD still is a time-consuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mauro DL Tosi , Martin Theobald

Distributed training of deep learning models on large-scale training data is typically conducted with asynchronous stochastic optimization to maximize the rate of updates, at the cost of additional noise introduced from asynchrony. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Xinghao Pan , Jianmin Chen , Rajat Monga , Samy Bengio , Rafal Jozefowicz

Distributed training of deep learning models on large-scale training data is typically conducted with asynchronous stochastic optimization to maximize the rate of updates, at the cost of additional noise introduced from asynchrony. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Jianmin Chen , Xinghao Pan , Rajat Monga , Samy Bengio , Rafal Jozefowicz

The implementation of a vast majority of machine learning (ML) algorithms boils down to solving a numerical optimization problem. In this context, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) methods have long proven to provide good results, both in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Janis Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt

Asynchronous parallel optimization algorithms for solving large-scale machine learning problems have drawn significant attention from academia to industry recently. This paper proposes a novel algorithm, decoupled asynchronous proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Yitan Li , Linli Xu , Xiaowei Zhong , Qing Ling

Large-scale machine learning training, in particular distributed stochastic gradient descent, needs to be robust to inherent system variability such as node straggling and random communication delays. This work considers a distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Jianyu Wang , Gauri Joshi

Large-scale distributed training of deep acoustic models plays an important role in today's high-performance automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper we investigate a variety of asynchronous decentralized distributed training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Xiaodong Cui , Wei Zhang , Abdullah Kayi , Mingrui Liu , Ulrich Finkler , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon , David Kung

Deep learning has become an indispensable part of life, such as face recognition, NLP, etc., but the training of deep model has always been a challenge, and in recent years, the complexity of training data and models has shown explosive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sheng Huang