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This paper proposes and analyzes a communication-efficient distributed optimization framework for general nonconvex nonsmooth signal processing and machine learning problems under an asynchronous protocol. At each iteration, worker machines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jineng Ren , Jarvis Haupt

A significant bottleneck in federated learning (FL) is the network communication cost of sending model updates from client devices to the central server. We present a comprehensive empirical study of the statistics of model updates in FL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Nicole Mitchell , Johannes Ballé , Zachary Charles , Jakub Konečný

A Federated Learning (FL) system collaboratively trains neural networks across devices and a server but is limited by significant on-device computation costs. Split Federated Learning (SFL) systems mitigate this by offloading a block of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zihan Zhang , Leon Wong , Blesson Varghese

As the size of datasets used in statistical learning continues to grow, distributed training of models has attracted increasing attention. These methods partition the data and exploit parallelism to reduce memory and runtime, but suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Fred Lu , Ryan R. Curtin , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , James Holt

Communication-efficient variants of SGD, specifically local SGD, have received a great deal of interest in recent years. These approaches compute multiple gradient steps locally on each worker, before averaging model parameters, helping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Charles-Étienne Joseph , Benjamin Thérien , Abhinav Moudgil , Boris Knyazev , Eugene Belilovsky

Distributed deep learning (DL) has become prevalent in recent years to reduce training time by leveraging multiple computing devices (e.g., GPUs/TPUs) due to larger models and datasets. However, system scalability is limited by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Wei Wang , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu

Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) confronts inherent challenges arising from the heterogeneity of devices (e.g., their computation capacities) and low-bandwidth environments, both potentially causing stale model updates (e.g., local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiajun Song , Jiajun Luo , Rongwei Lu , Shuzhao Xie , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang

We consider network-based decentralized optimization problems, where each node in the network possesses a local function and the objective is to collectively attain a consensus solution that minimizes the sum of all the local functions. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Suhail M. Shah , Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada

In this paper, we propose a communication-efficient penalized regression algorithm for high-dimensional sparse linear regression models with massive data. This approach incorporates an optimized distributed system communication algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-02 Chenqi Gong , Hu Yang

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is an $\mathcal{O}(n)$ solution process for many large sparse linear systems. A hierarchy of progressively coarser grids is constructed that utilize complementary relaxation and interpolation operators. High-energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Amanda Bienz , Robert D. Falgout William Gropp , Luke N. Olson , Jacob B. Schroder

Petabytes of data are generated each day by emerging Internet of Things (IoT), but only few of them can be finally collected and used for Machine Learning (ML) purposes due to the apprehension of data & privacy leakage, which seriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Yuhao Zhou , Ye Qing , Jiancheng Lv

Sparse tensors appear frequently in distributed deep learning, either as a direct artifact of the deep neural network's gradients, or as a result of an explicit sparsification process. Existing communication primitives are agnostic to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Kelly Kostopoulou , Hang Xu , Aritra Dutta , Xin Li , Alexandros Ntoulas , Panos Kalnis

Large-scale deep learning models impose substantial communication overh ead in distributed training, particularly in bandwidth-constrained or heterogeneous clo ud-edge environments. Conventional synchronous or fixed-compression techniques o…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yi Yang , Ziyu Lin , Liesheng Wei

In contrast to training traditional machine learning (ML) models in data centers, federated learning (FL) trains ML models over local datasets contained on resource-constrained heterogeneous edge devices. Existing FL algorithms aim to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 El Houcine Bergou , Konstantin Burlachenko , Aritra Dutta , Peter Richtárik

In distributed optimization for large-scale learning, a major performance limitation comes from the communications between the different entities. When computations are performed by workers on local data while a coordinator machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Dmitry Grishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Massih-Reza Amini

We study the problem of stochastic optimization for deep learning in the parallel computing environment under communication constraints. A new algorithm is proposed in this setting where the communication and coordination of work among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Sixin Zhang , Anna Choromanska , Yann LeCun

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is a widely used scalable solver and preconditioner for large-scale linear systems resulting from the discretization of a wide class of elliptic PDEs. While AMG has optimal computational complexity, the cost of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wayne B. Mitchell , Robert Strzodka , Robert D. Falgout

With distributed machine learning being a prominent technique for large-scale machine learning tasks, communication complexity has become a major bottleneck for speeding up training and scaling up machine numbers. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pengyun Yue , Hanzhen Zhao , Cong Fang , Di He , Liwei Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Song-chun Zhu

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimally coordinating the response of a group of distributed energy resources (DERs) so they collectively meet the electric power demanded by a collection of loads, while minimizing the total…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Madi Zholbaryssov , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia

Rapid scaling of deep learning models has enabled performance gains across domains, yet it introduced several challenges. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework to address these concerns by enabling decentralized…