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Gradient aggregation has long been identified as a major bottleneck in today's large-scale distributed machine learning training systems. One promising solution to mitigate such bottlenecks is gradient compression, directly reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Wenchen Han , Shay Vargaftik , Michael Mitzenmacher , Brad Karp , Ran Ben Basat

The large communication cost for exchanging gradients between different nodes significantly limits the scalability of distributed training for large-scale learning models. Motivated by this observation, there has been significant recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Leighton Pate Barnes , Huseyin A. Inan , Berivan Isik , Ayfer Ozgur

Model compression is generally performed by using quantization, low-rank approximation or pruning, for which various algorithms have been researched in recent years. One fundamental question is: what types of compression work better for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

This article is in the context of gradient compression. Gradient compression is a popular technique for mitigating the communication bottleneck observed when training large machine learning models in a distributed manner using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Tharindu Adikari

Overparameterized models have proven to be powerful tools for solving various machine learning tasks. However, overparameterization often leads to a substantial increase in computational and memory costs, which in turn requires extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Soo Min Kwon , Zekai Zhang , Dogyoon Song , Laura Balzano , Qing Qu

Gradient compression alleviates expensive communication in distributed deep learning by sending fewer values and its corresponding indices, typically via Allgather (AG). Training with high compression ratio (CR) achieves high accuracy like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sahil Tyagi , Martin Swany

In recent years, distributed optimization is proven to be an effective approach to accelerate training of large scale machine learning models such as deep neural networks. With the increasing computation power of GPUs, the bottleneck of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiangyi Chen , Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li

A stochastic gradient method for synchronous distributed optimization is studied. For reducing communication cost, we particularly focus on utilization of compression of communicated gradients. Several work has shown that {\it{sparsified}}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Tomoya Murata , Taiji Suzuki

The performance and efficiency of distributed training of Deep Neural Networks highly depend on the performance of gradient averaging among all participating nodes, which is bounded by the communication between nodes. There are two major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linnan Wang , Wei Wu , Junyu Zhang , Hang Liu , George Bosilca , Maurice Herlihy , Rodrigo Fonseca

Parallel implementations of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have received significant research attention, thanks to excellent scalability properties of this algorithm, and to its efficiency in the context of training deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Dan Alistarh , Demjan Grubic , Jerry Li , Ryota Tomioka , Milan Vojnovic

Codistillation has been proposed as a mechanism to share knowledge among concurrently trained models by encouraging them to represent the same function through an auxiliary loss. This contrasts with the more commonly used fully-synchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shagun Sodhani , Olivier Delalleau , Mahmoud Assran , Koustuv Sinha , Nicolas Ballas , Michael Rabbat

In the last few years, various communication compression techniques have emerged as an indispensable tool helping to alleviate the communication bottleneck in distributed learning. However, despite the fact biased compressors often show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Samuel Horváth , Peter Richtárik , Mher Safaryan

Communication overhead is one of the major obstacles to train large deep learning models at scale. Gradient sparsification is a promising technique to reduce the communication volume. However, it is very challenging to obtain real…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shigang Li , Torsten Hoefler

Large-scale distributed optimization is of great importance in various applications. For data-parallel based distributed learning, the inter-node gradient communication often becomes the performance bottleneck. In this paper, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Jiaxiang Wu , Weidong Huang , Junzhou Huang , Tong Zhang

Regional energy caps limit the growth of any single data center used for large-scale model training. This single-center training paradigm works when model size remains manageable, but exponential growth in the model size and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Rongwei Lu , Jingyan Jiang , Chunyang Li , Xingguang Wei , Zhi Wang

Efficient deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices demands advanced compression techniques that preserve accuracy and interoperability. This paper proposes a machine learning framework that augments Knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Ramon Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

We study gradient compression methods to alleviate the communication bottleneck in data-parallel distributed optimization. Despite the significant attention received, current compression schemes either do not scale well or fail to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Thijs Vogels , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Martin Jaggi

Training large-scale distributed machine learning models imposes considerable demands on network infrastructure, often resulting in sudden traffic spikes that lead to congestion, increased latency, and reduced throughput, which would…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yisu Wang , Xinjiao Li , Ruilong Wu , Huangxun Chen , Dirk Kutscher

Distributed learning algorithms, such as the ones employed in Federated Learning (FL), require communication compression to reduce the cost of client uploads. The compression methods used in practice are often biased, making error feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tomas Ortega , Chun-Yin Huang , Xiaoxiao Li , Hamid Jafarkhani

The recent many-fold increase in the size of deep neural networks makes efficient distributed training challenging. Many proposals exploit the compressibility of the gradients and propose lossy compression techniques to speed up the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Ahmed Elzanaty , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Marco Canini