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Distributed learning provides an attractive framework for scaling the learning task by sharing the computational load over multiple nodes in a network. Here, we investigate the performance of distributed learning for large-scale linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Martin Hellkvist , Ayça Özçelikkale , Anders Ahlén

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach where multiple clients collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data, which contributes to preserving privacy. A challenge in federated learning is managing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rickard Brännvall

Most of today's distributed machine learning systems assume {\em reliable networks}: whenever two machines exchange information (e.g., gradients or models), the network should guarantee the delivery of the message. At the same time, recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Chen Yu , Hanlin Tang , Cedric Renggli , Simon Kassing , Ankit Singla , Dan Alistarh , Ce Zhang , Ji Liu

Distributed optimization is the standard way of speeding up machine learning training, and most of the research in the area focuses on distributed first-order, gradient-based methods. Yet, there are settings where some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Matin Ansaripour , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

In recent years, data and computing resources are typically distributed in the devices of end users, various regions or organizations. Because of laws or regulations, the distributed data and computing resources cannot be directly shared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ji Liu , Jizhou Huang , Yang Zhou , Xuhong Li , Shilei Ji , Haoyi Xiong , Dejing Dou

We study distributed optimization problems over a network when the communication between the nodes is constrained, and so information that is exchanged between the nodes must be quantized. This imperfect communication poses a fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

Nowadays, data-driven, machine and deep learning approaches have provided unprecedented performance in various complex tasks, including image classification and object detection, and in a variety of application areas, like autonomous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Evangelos Georgatos , Christos Mavrokefalidis , Kostas Berberidis

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new paradigm to train machine learning models in distributed systems. Rather than sharing, and disclosing, the training dataset with the server, the model parameters (e.g. neural networks weights and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Stefano Savazzi , Monica Nicoli , Vittorio Rampa

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained distributed optimization problem, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology, thus, nodes can only communicate with their neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

Decentralized strategies are of interest for learning from large-scale data over networks. This paper studies learning over a network of geographically distributed nodes/agents subject to quantization. Each node possesses a private local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Muhammad I. Qureshi , Mohammad Hossein Khalesi , Hamid R. Rabiee , Usman A. Khan

Federated Learning is an algorithm suited for training models on decentralized data, but the requirement of a central "server" node is a bottleneck. In this document, we first introduce the notion of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhuofan Zhang , Mi Zhou , Kaicheng Niu , Chaouki Abdallah

Federated learning allows distributed devices to collectively train a model without sharing or disclosing the local dataset with a central server. The global model is optimized by training and averaging the model parameters of all local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 George Pu , Yanlin Zhou , Dapeng Wu , Xiaolin Li

Vanilla federated learning does not support learning in an online environment, learning a personalized model on each client, and learning in a decentralized setting. There are existing methods extending federated learning in each of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Renzhi Wu , Saayan Mitra , Xiang Chen , Anup Rao

Resource allocation in distributed and networked systems such as the Cloud is becoming increasingly flexible, allowing these systems to dynamically adjust toward the workloads they serve, in a demand-aware manner. Online balanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid , Ruslan Zabrodin

Decentralized learning offers privacy and communication efficiency when data are naturally distributed among agents communicating over an underlying graph. Motivated by overparameterized learning settings, in which models are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

We consider a decentralized learning problem, where a set of computing nodes aim at solving a non-convex optimization problem collaboratively. It is well-known that decentralized optimization schemes face two major system bottlenecks:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Hossein Taheri , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

We propose a novel federated learning method for distributively training neural network models, where the server orchestrates cooperation between a subset of randomly chosen devices in each round. We view Federated Learning problem…

Driven by the need to solve increasingly complex optimization problems in signal processing and machine learning, there has been increasing interest in understanding the behavior of gradient-descent algorithms in non-convex environments.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

The analysis of data stored in multiple sites has become more popular, raising new concerns about the security of data storage and communication. Federated learning, which does not require centralizing data, is a common approach to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Z. F. Wang , X. Y. Zhang , Y-c I. Chang