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In distributed optimization and machine learning, multiple nodes coordinate to solve large problems. To do this, the nodes need to compress important algorithm information to bits so that it can be communicated over a digital channel. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Sindri Magnússon , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Na Li

Variational inequalities as an effective tool for solving applied problems, including machine learning tasks, have been attracting more and more attention from researchers in recent years. The use of variational inequalities covers a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Daniil Medyakov , Gleb Molodtsov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

Communication compression has become a key strategy to speed up distributed optimization. However, existing decentralized algorithms with compression mainly focus on compressing DGD-type algorithms. They are unsatisfactory in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Xiaorui Liu , Yao Li , Rongrong Wang , Jiliang Tang , Ming Yan

In this paper, we design two compressed decentralized algorithms for solving nonconvex stochastic optimization under two different scenarios. Both algorithms adopt a momentum technique to achieve fast convergence and a message-compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wei Liu , Anweshit Panda , Ujwal Pandey , Christopher Brissette , Yikang Shen , George M. Slota , Naigang Wang , Jie Chen , Yangyang Xu

Communication cost is one major bottleneck for the scalability for distributed learning. One approach to reduce the communication cost is to compress the gradient during communication. However, directly compressing the gradient decelerates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Hanlin Tang , Yao Li , Ji Liu , Ming Yan

In this paper, the distributed strongly convex optimization problem is studied with spatio-temporal compressed communication and equality constraints. For the case where each agent holds an distributed local equality constraint, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Zhengguang Wu , Guodong Shi

Due to the explosion in the size of the training datasets, distributed learning has received growing interest in recent years. One of the major bottlenecks is the large communication cost between the central server and the local workers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

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

Information compression is essential to reduce communication cost in distributed optimization over peer-to-peer networks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient linearly convergent distributed (COLD) algorithm to solve strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You , Lihua Xie

We study optimization algorithms for the finite sum problems frequently arising in machine learning applications. First, we propose novel variants of stochastic gradient descent with a variance reduction property that enables linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Jakub Konečný

Variational inequalities are a broad and flexible class of problems that includes minimization, saddle point, and fixed point problems as special cases. Therefore, variational inequalities are used in various applications ranging from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Martin Takáč , Alexander Gasnikov

Communication compression is an essential strategy for alleviating communication overhead by reducing the volume of information exchanged between computing nodes in large-scale distributed stochastic optimization. Although numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yutong He , Xinmeng Huang , Yiming Chen , Wotao Yin , Kun Yuan

Distributed optimization algorithms have emerged as a superior approaches for solving machine learning problems. To accommodate the diverse ways in which data can be stored across devices, these methods must be adaptable to a wide range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Sergey Stanko , Timur Karimullin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuzhu Duan , Ziwen Yang , Xiaoming Duan , Shanying Zhu

In this paper, we study distributed algorithms for large-scale AUC maximization with a deep neural network as a predictive model. Although distributed learning techniques have been investigated extensively in deep learning, they are not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Zhishuai Guo , Mingrui Liu , Zhuoning Yuan , Li Shen , Wei Liu , Tianbao Yang

Modern machine learning tasks often involve massive datasets and models, necessitating distributed optimization algorithms with reduced communication overhead. Communication compression, where clients transmit compressed updates to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Yuan Gao , Anton Rodomanov , Jeremy Rack , Sebastian U. Stich

We consider the problem of communication efficient distributed optimization where multiple nodes exchange important algorithm information in every iteration to solve large problems. In particular, we focus on the stochastic variance-reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Sindri Magnusson

Distributed and federated learning algorithms and techniques associated primarily with minimization problems. However, with the increase of minimax optimization and variational inequality problems in machine learning, the necessity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Siqi Zhang , Sayantan Choudhury , Sebastian U Stich , Nicolas Loizou

Although the distributed machine learning methods can speed up the training of large deep neural networks, the communication cost has become the non-negligible bottleneck to constrain the performance. To address this challenge, the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 An Xu , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Modern realities and trends in learning require more and more generalization ability of models, which leads to an increase in both models and training sample size. It is already difficult to solve such tasks in a single device mode. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Dmitry Bylinkin , Kirill Degtyarev , Aleksandr Beznosikov