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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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Communication efficiency has been widely recognized as the bottleneck for large-scale decentralized machine learning applications in multi-agent or federated environments. To tackle the communication bottleneck, there have been many efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Haoyu Zhao , Boyue Li , Zhize Li , Peter Richtárik , Yuejie Chi

Lossy gradient compression, with either unbiased or biased compressors, has become a key tool to avoid the communication bottleneck in centrally coordinated distributed training of machine learning models. We analyze the performance of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Sebastian U. Stich

Compressed communication, in the form of sparsification or quantization of stochastic gradients, is employed to reduce communication costs in distributed data-parallel training of deep neural networks. However, there exists a discrepancy…

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Multidimensional data acquisition often requires extensive time and poses significant challenges for hardware and software regarding data storage and processing. Rather than designing a single compression matrix as in conventional…

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This study investigates the impact of gradient compression on distributed training performance, focusing on sparsification and quantization techniques, including top-k, DGC, and QSGD. In baseline experiments, random-k compression results in…

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This paper studies a compressed momentum-based single-point zeroth-order algorithm for stochastic distributed nonconvex optimization, aiming to alleviate communication overhead and address the unavailability of explicit gradient…

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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

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

We consider distributed convex optimization problems originated from sample average approximation of stochastic optimization, or empirical risk minimization in machine learning. We assume that each machine in the distributed computing…

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We propose a communication- and computation-efficient distributed optimization algorithm using second-order information for solving ERM problems with a nonsmooth regularization term. Current second-order and quasi-Newton methods for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Ching-pei Lee , Cong Han Lim , Stephen J. Wright

To address the communication bottleneck challenge in distributed learning, our work introduces a novel two-stage quantization strategy designed to enhance the communication efficiency of distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The…

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Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

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In modern large-scale networked systems, rapidly solving optimization problems while utilizing communication resources efficiently is critical for addressing complex tasks. In this paper, we consider an unconstrained distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Ruochen Wu , Xu Du , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

Recent advances in distributed optimization and learning have shown that communication compression is one of the most effective means of reducing communication. While there have been many results on convergence rates under communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xinmeng Huang , Yiming Chen , Wotao Yin , Kun Yuan

This paper considers online distributed convex constrained optimization over a time-varying multi-agent network. Agents in this network cooperate to minimize the global objective function through information exchange with their neighbors…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Kaihong Lu , Deming Yuan

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. Recent advances using the distributed gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

Communication compression is a common technique in distributed optimization that can alleviate communication overhead by transmitting compressed gradients and model parameters. However, compression can introduce information distortion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yutong He , Xinmeng Huang , Kun Yuan

For SGD based distributed stochastic optimization, computation complexity, measured by the convergence rate in terms of the number of stochastic gradient calls, and communication complexity, measured by the number of inter-node…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Hao Yu , Rong Jin

We consider machine learning applications that train a model by leveraging data distributed over a trusted network, where communication constraints can create a performance bottleneck. A number of recent approaches propose to overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Osama A. Hanna , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi