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We propose a communication-efficient optimally structured gradient coding scheme to jointly address straggler resilience and communication efficiency in heterogeneous distributed learning. By establishing a unified framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

Asynchronous distributed algorithms are a popular way to reduce synchronization costs in large-scale optimization, and in particular for neural network training. However, for nonsmooth and nonconvex objectives, few convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Malcolm Egan , Bapi Chatterjee , Dan Alistarh

This paper considers the problem of asynchronous distributed multi-agent optimization on server-based system architecture. In this problem, each agent has a local cost, and the goal for the agents is to collectively find a minimum of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Shuo Liu , Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is essential for scaling the machine learning algorithms to a large number of computing nodes. However, the infrastructures variability such as high communication delay or random node slowdown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jianyu Wang , Hao Liang , Gauri Joshi

Distributed gradient descent (DGD) is an efficient way of implementing gradient descent (GD), especially for large data sets, by dividing the computation tasks into smaller subtasks and assigning to different computing servers (CSs) to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

Asynchronous stochastic gradient methods are central to scalable distributed optimization, particularly when devices differ in computational capabilities. Such settings arise naturally in federated learning, where training takes place on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

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

The convergence of SGD based distributed training algorithms is tied to the data distribution across workers. Standard partitioning techniques try to achieve equal-sized partitions with per-class population distribution in proportion to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Haoze He , Parijat Dube

With the increase in the amount of data and the expansion of model scale, distributed parallel training becomes an important and successful technique to address the optimization challenges. Nevertheless, although distributed stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shuheng Shen , Linli Xu , Jingchang Liu , Xianfeng Liang , Yifei Cheng

This paper considers a distributed stochastic strongly convex optimization, where agents connected over a network aim to cooperatively minimize the average of all agents' local cost functions. Due to the stochasticity of gradient estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen , Yiguang Hong

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has attracted considerable recent attention due to its potential for scaling computational resources, reducing training time, and helping protect user privacy in machine learning. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Siyuan Yu , Wei Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Most commonly used distributed machine learning systems are either synchronous or centralized asynchronous. Synchronous algorithms like AllReduce-SGD perform poorly in a heterogeneous environment, while asynchronous algorithms using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Xiangru Lian , Wei Zhang , Ce Zhang , Ji Liu

The primal-dual distributed optimization methods have broad large-scale machine learning applications. Previous primal-dual distributed methods are not applicable when the dual formulation is not available, e.g. the sum-of-non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

To increase the training speed of distributed learning, recent years have witnessed a significant amount of interest in developing both synchronous and asynchronous distributed stochastic variance-reduced optimization methods. However, all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zhuqing Liu , Xin Zhang , Jia Liu

The training of modern deep learning neural network calls for large amounts of computation, which is often provided by GPUs or other specific accelerators. To scale out to achieve faster training speed, two update algorithms are mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Yemao Xu , Dezun Dong , Weixia Xu , Xiangke Liao

The paper considers distributed stochastic optimization over randomly switching networks, where agents collaboratively minimize the average of all agents' local expectation-valued convex cost functions. Due to the stochasticity in gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen , Yiguang Hong

With huge amounts of training data, deep learning has made great breakthroughs in many artificial intelligence (AI) applications. However, such large-scale data sets present computational challenges, requiring training to be distributed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li

Stochastic convex optimization algorithms are the most popular way to train machine learning models on large-scale data. Scaling up the training process of these models is crucial, but the most popular algorithm, Stochastic Gradient Descent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Ashok Cutkosky , Robert Busa-Fekete

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in diverse domains. However, training GNNs on large-scale graphs poses significant challenges due to high memory demands and significant communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Arefin Niam , M S Q Zulkar Nine

In this paper, we study the (decentralized) distributed optimization problem with high-dimensional sparse structure. Building upon the FedDA algorithm, we propose a (Decentralized) FedDA-GT algorithm, which combines the \textbf{gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Jiadong Liang , Yang Peng , Zhihua Zhang