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In this paper, we propose and analyze SQuARM-SGD, a communication-efficient algorithm for decentralized training of large-scale machine learning models over a network. In SQuARM-SGD, each node performs a fixed number of local SGD steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Navjot Singh , Deepesh Data , Jemin George , Suhas Diggavi

Communication overhead is a major bottleneck hampering the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using gradient compression to improve the communication efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Shuai Zheng , Ziyue Huang , James T. Kwok

We propose LQ-SGD (Low-Rank Quantized Stochastic Gradient Descent), an efficient communication gradient compression algorithm designed for distributed training. LQ-SGD further develops on the basis of PowerSGD by incorporating the low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hongyang Li , Lincen Bai , Caesar Wu , Mohammed Chadli , Said Mammar , Pascal Bouvry

To accelerate distributed training, many gradient compression methods have been proposed to alleviate the communication bottleneck in synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD), but their efficacy in real-world applications still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lin Zhang , Longteng Zhang , Shaohuai Shi , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li

Large-scale distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on state-of-the-art platforms is expected to be severely communication constrained. To overcome this limitation, numerous gradient compression techniques have been proposed and…

State-of-the-art training algorithms for deep learning models are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Recently, many variations have been explored: perturbing parameters for better accuracy (such as in Extragradient), limiting SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

Decentralized training of deep learning models is a key element for enabling data privacy and on-device learning over networks, as well as for efficient scaling to large compute clusters. As current approaches suffer from limited bandwidth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Anastasia Koloskova , Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) approach has been widely used in large-scale deep learning, and the gradient collective method is vital to ensure the training scalability of the distributed deep learning system. Collective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Keshi Ge , Yongquan Fu , Zhiquan Lai , Xiaoge Deng , Dongsheng Li

Communication bottleneck has been identified as a significant issue in distributed optimization of large-scale learning models. Recently, several approaches to mitigate this problem have been proposed, including different forms of gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Debraj Basu , Deepesh Data , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

Compressed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithms have been recently proposed to address the communication bottleneck in distributed and decentralized optimization problems, such as those that arise in federated machine learning.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-21 Adarsh M. Subramaniam , Akshayaa Magesh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Distributed learning, particularly variants of distributed stochastic gradient descent (DSGD), are widely employed to speed up training by leveraging computational resources of several workers. However, in practise, communication delay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Kerem Ozfatura , Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Distributed training is an effective way to accelerate the training process of large-scale deep learning models. However, the parameter exchange and synchronization of distributed stochastic gradient descent introduce a large amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 LingFei Dai , Boyu Diao , Chao Li , Yongjun Xu

Lossy gradient compression has become a practical tool to overcome the communication bottleneck in centrally coordinated distributed training of machine learning models. However, algorithms for decentralized training with compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Thijs Vogels , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Martin Jaggi

Communication compression is a crucial technique for modern distributed learning systems to alleviate their communication bottlenecks over slower networks. Despite recent intensive studies of gradient compression for data parallel-style…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jue Wang , Binhang Yuan , Luka Rimanic , Yongjun He , Tri Dao , Beidi Chen , Christopher Re , Ce Zhang

To reduce the long training time of large deep neural network (DNN) models, distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD) is commonly used on a cluster of workers. However, the speedup brought by multiple workers is limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Communication is a major bottleneck in distributed learning, especially in large-scale settings and in federated learning environments with slow links. Three standard ways to reduce this cost are communication compression, local training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yassine Maziane , Ammar Mahran , Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

Various gradient compression schemes have been proposed to mitigate the communication cost in distributed training of large scale machine learning models. Sign-based methods, such as signSGD, have recently been gaining popularity because of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Mher Safaryan , Peter Richtárik

A standard approach in large scale machine learning is distributed stochastic gradient training, which requires the computation of aggregated stochastic gradients over multiple nodes on a network. Communication is a major bottleneck in such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Chen Yu , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

Decentralized training has been actively studied in recent years. Although a wide variety of methods have been proposed, yet the decentralized momentum SGD method is still underexplored. In this paper, we propose a novel periodic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hongchang Gao , Heng Huang

This paper studies distributed nonconvex optimization problems with stochastic gradients for a multi-agent system, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed information exchange. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren