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Federated Learning is an algorithm suited for training models on decentralized data, but the requirement of a central "server" node is a bottleneck. In this document, we first introduce the notion of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhuofan Zhang , Mi Zhou , Kaicheng Niu , Chaouki Abdallah

Decentralized learning with private data is a central problem in machine learning. We propose a novel distillation-based decentralized learning technique that allows multiple agents with private non-iid data to learn from each other,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler , Nolan Miller , Gus Kristiansen , Max Vladymyrov

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle

Distributed training has become a pervasive and effective approach for training a large neural network (NN) model with processing massive data. However, it is very challenging to satisfy requirements from various NN models, diverse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yulong Ao , Zhihua Wu , Dianhai Yu , Weibao Gong , Zhiqing Kui , Minxu Zhang , Zilingfeng Ye , Liang Shen , Yanjun Ma , Tian Wu , Haifeng Wang , Wei Zeng , Chao Yang

Diffusion-based generation is increasingly powering production content pipelines; however, deploying these models at scale remains a significant challenge. Model weights frequently exceed the memory capacity of commodity GPUs, while the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hantian Zha , Teng Ma , Yang Yong , Haiwen Fu , Ruiyang Ma , Wei Gao , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Wei Wang , Yunpeng Chai

We consider the problem of decentralized deep learning where multiple agents collaborate to learn from a distributed dataset. While there exist several decentralized deep learning approaches, the majority consider a central parameter-server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Sin Yong Tan , Chinmay Hedge , Young M Lee , Soumik Sarkar

Clustered Federated Learning has emerged as an effective approach for handling heterogeneous data across clients by partitioning them into clusters with similar or identical data distributions. However, most existing methods, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jonas Kirch , Sebastian Becker , Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues , Stefan Harmeling

Much of federated learning (FL) focuses on settings where local dataset statistics remain the same between training and testing. However, this assumption often does not hold in practice due to distribution shifts, motivating the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Many machine learning algorithms have been developed under the assumption that data sets are already available in batch form. Yet in many application domains data is only available sequentially overtime via compute nodes in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Alfredo Garcia , Luochao Wang , Jeff Huang , Lingzhou Hong

Diffusion models suffer from the huge consumption of time and resources to train. For example, diffusion models need hundreds of GPUs to train for several weeks for a high-resolution generative task to meet the requirements of an extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Bin Xie , Gady Agam

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Euisoo Jung , Byunghyun Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Seonghye Cho , Jae-Gil Lee

Distributed machine learning is critical for training deep learning models on large datasets with numerous parameters. Current research primarily focuses on leveraging additional hardware resources and powerful computing units to accelerate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Kuan-Wei Lu , Ding-Yong Hong , Pangfeng Liu , Jan-Jan Wu

GPUs have been favored for training deep learning models due to their highly parallelized architecture. As a result, most studies on training optimization focus on GPUs. There is often a trade-off, however, between cost and efficiency when…

Distributed machine learning (DML) technology makes it possible to train large neural networks in a reasonable amount of time. Meanwhile, as the computing power grows much faster than network capacity, network communication has gradually…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xinchi Han , Weihao Jiang , Peirui Cao , Qinwei Yang , Yunzhuo Liu , Shuyao Qi , Shengkai Lin , Shizhen Zhao

Wearable devices are revolutionizing personal technology, but their usability is often hindered by frequent charging due to high power consumption. This paper introduces Distributed Neural Networks (DistNN), a framework that distributes…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Meghna Roy Chowdhury , Ming-che Li , Archisman Ghosh , Md Faizul Bari , Shreyas Sen

Decentralized learning (DL) offers a powerful framework where nodes collaboratively train models without sharing raw data and without the coordination of a central server. In the iterative rounds of DL, models are trained locally, shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Akash Dhasade , Paolo Dini , Elia Guerra , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Marco Miozzo , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos

Generating unique molecules with biochemically desired properties to serve as viable drug candidates is a difficult task that requires specialized domain expertise. In recent years, diffusion models have shown promising results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Kevin Ta , Patrick Foley , Mattson Thieme , Abhishek Pandey , Prashant Shah

We propose a GPU-accelerated distributed optimization algorithm for controlling multi-phase optimal power flow in active distribution systems with dynamically changing topologies. To handle varying network configurations and enable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Minseok Ryu , Geunyeong Byeon , Kibaek Kim

Large-scale model training has been a playing ground for a limited few requiring complex model refactoring and access to prohibitively expensive GPU clusters. ZeRO-Offload changes the large model training landscape by making large model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jie Ren , Samyam Rajbhandari , Reza Yazdani Aminabadi , Olatunji Ruwase , Shuangyan Yang , Minjia Zhang , Dong Li , Yuxiong He

Diffusion models have recently gained unprecedented attention in the field of image synthesis due to their remarkable generative capabilities. Notwithstanding their prowess, these models often incur substantial computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang