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We propose a new optimization formulation for training federated learning models. The standard formulation has the form of an empirical risk minimization problem constructed to find a single global model trained from the private data stored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Filip Hanzely , Peter Richtárik

Combining gradient compression methods (e.g., CountSketch, quantization) and adaptive optimizers (e.g., Adam, AMSGrad) is a desirable goal in federated learning (FL), with potential benefits on both fewer communication rounds and less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhijie Chen , Qiaobo Li , Arindam Banerjee

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

In distributed and federated learning algorithms, communication overhead is often reduced by performing multiple local updates between communication rounds. However, due to data heterogeneity across nodes and the local gradient noise within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yan Huang , Jinming Xu , Jiming Chen , Karl Henrik Johansson

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a fundamental optimization algorithm widely used in modern machine learning. In this paper, we propose Factor-Augmented SGD (FSGD), a new optimization method that leverages latent factor representations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Shubo Li , Yuefeng Han , Xiufan Yu

When scaling distributed training, the communication overhead is often the bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a novel SGD variant with reduced communication and adaptive learning rates. We prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta , Haibin Lin

One of the most common methods to train machine learning algorithms today is the stochastic gradient descent (SGD). In a distributed setting, SGD-based algorithms have been shown to converge theoretically under specific circumstances. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Soumya Sarkar , Shweta Jain

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the key learning algorithm for many machine learning tasks. Because of its computational costs, there is a growing interest in accelerating SGD on HPC resources like GPU clusters. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Peng Jiang , Gagan Agrawal

Edge computing allows artificial intelligence and machine learning models to be deployed on edge devices, where they can learn from local data and collaborate to form a global model. Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chris Xing Tian , Yibing Liu , Haoliang Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Shiqi Wang

Federated learning has shown its advances recently but is still facing many challenges, such as how algorithms save communication resources and reduce computational costs, and whether they converge. To address these critical issues, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Shenglong Zhou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated learning is a machine learning training paradigm that enables clients to jointly train models without sharing their own localized data. However, the implementation of federated learning in practice still faces numerous challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

We propose a novel algorithm for distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with compressed gradient communication in the parameter-server framework. Our gradient compression technique, named flattened one-bit stochastic gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Alexander Stollenwerk , Laurent Jacques

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

Over-the-air computation is a communication-efficient solution for federated learning (FL). In such a system, iterative procedure is performed: Local gradient of private loss function is updated, amplified and then transmitted by every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Rongfei Fan , Xuming An , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu

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

In this paper, the problem of federated learning (FL) through digital communication between clients and a parameter server (PS) over a multiple access channel (MAC), also subject to differential privacy (DP) constraints, is studied. More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Amir Sonee , Stefano Rini

This paper introduces a new federated learning scheme that leverages over-the-air computation. A novel feature of this scheme is the proposal to employ adaptive weights during aggregation, a facet treated as predefined in other over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Leandros Tassiulas

This paper presents a holistic approach to gradient leakage resilient distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). First, we analyze two types of strategies for privacy-enhanced federated learning: (i) gradient pruning with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Jingya Zhou , Ka-Ho Chow , Yanzhao Wu

This paper investigates federated learning in a wireless communication system, where random device selection is employed with non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data. The analysis indicates that while training deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Daniel K. C. So , Zhi Ding

This paper proposes an algorithm for Federated Learning (FL) with a two-layer structure that achieves both variance reduction and a faster convergence rate to an optimal solution in the setting where each agent has an arbitrary probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 M. R. Rostami , S. S. Kia