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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data local. However, FL suffers from significant communication overhead due to the frequent exchange of…

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Communication compression is essential for scalable distributed training of modern machine learning models, but it often degrades convergence due to the noise it introduces. Error Feedback (EF) mechanisms are widely adopted to mitigate this…

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Federated learning is a promising framework to mitigate data privacy and computation concerns. However, the communication cost between the server and clients has become the major bottleneck for successful deployment. Despite notable…

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Although Federated Learning has been widely studied in recent years, there are still high overhead expenses in each communication round for large-scale models such as Vision Transformer. To lower the communication complexity, we propose a…

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Communicating information, like gradient vectors, between computing nodes in distributed and federated learning is typically an unavoidable burden, resulting in scalability issues. Indeed, communication might be slow and costly. Recent…

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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…

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Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory…

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Communication overhead is the key challenge for distributed training. Gradient compression is a widely used approach to reduce communication traffic. When combining with parallel communication mechanism method like pipeline, gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Enda Yu , Dezun Dong , Yemao Xu , Shuo Ouyang , Xiangke Liao

Efficiently running federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained devices is challenging since they are required to train computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNN) independently. DNN partitioning-based FL (DPFL) has been…

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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

Communication efficiency is of importance for wireless federated learning systems. In this paper, we propose a communication-efficient strategy for federated learning over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple access channels…

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This work investigates fault-resilient federated learning when the data samples are non-uniformly distributed across workers, and the number of faulty workers is unknown to the central server. In the presence of adversarially faulty workers…

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In federated learning (FL), reducing the communication overhead is one of the most critical challenges since the parameter server and the mobile devices share the training parameters over wireless links. With such consideration, we adopt…

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Gradient-based optimization methods implemented on distributed computing architectures are increasingly used to tackle large-scale machine learning applications. A key bottleneck in such distributed systems is the high communication…

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Optimization problems on the Stiefel manifold, ranging from principal component analysis to enhancing neural network robustness, are ubiquitous in machine learning. The Landing algorithm avoids computationally expensive retraction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Yilong Song , Peijin Li , Bin Gao , Kun Yuan

An increasing bottleneck in decentralized optimization is communication. Bigger models and growing datasets mean that decentralization of computation is important and that the amount of information exchanged is quickly growing. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Tharindu B. Adikari , Stark C. Draper

Distributed learning is an effective approach to accelerate model training using multiple workers. However, substantial communication delays emerge between workers and a parameter server due to massive costs associated with communicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Chanho Park , Namyoon Lee

With more regulations tackling users' privacy-sensitive data protection in recent years, access to such data has become increasingly restricted and controversial. To exploit the wealth of data generated and located at distributed entities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nader Bouacida , Jiahui Hou , Hui Zang , Xin Liu

Due to limited communication resources at the client and a massive number of model parameters, large-scale distributed learning tasks suffer from communication bottleneck. Gradient compression is an effective method to reduce communication…

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