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Distributed model training suffers from communication bottlenecks due to frequent model updates transmitted across compute nodes. To alleviate these bottlenecks, practitioners use gradient compression techniques like sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Saurabh Agarwal , Hongyi Wang , Kangwook Lee , Shivaram Venkataraman , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Network consensus optimization has received increasing attention in recent years and has found important applications in many scientific and engineering fields. To solve network consensus optimization problems, one of the most well-known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

First-order optimization methods, such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants, are widely used in machine learning applications due to their simplicity and low per-iteration costs. However, they often require larger numbers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Chih-Hao Fang , Sudhir B Kylasa , Fred Roosta , Michael W. Mahoney , Ananth Grama

This paper considers decentralized consensus optimization problems where nodes of a network have access to different summands of a global objective function. Nodes cooperate to minimize the global objective by exchanging information with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

Large scale, non-convex optimization problems arising in many complex networks such as the power system call for efficient and scalable distributed optimization algorithms. Existing distributed methods are usually iterative and require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Junyao Guo , Gabriela Hug , Ozan Tonguz

This paper studies the problem of steering large-scale multi-agent stochastic linear systems between Gaussian distributions under probabilistic collision avoidance constraints. We introduce a family of \textit{distributed covariance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Augustinos D. Saravanos , Isin M. Balci , Arshiya Taj Abdul , Efstathios Bakolas , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We study differentially private (DP) machine learning algorithms as instances of noisy fixed-point iterations, in order to derive privacy and utility results from this well-studied framework. We show that this new perspective recovers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet , Debabrota Basu

This paper discusses a consensus-based alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) approach to solve the multi-area coordinated network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) problem in a distributed manner. Due to political and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Yamin Wang , Lei Wu , Jie Li

Big data, including applications with high security requirements, are often collected and stored on multiple heterogeneous devices, such as mobile devices, drones and vehicles. Due to the limitations of communication costs and security…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hao Chen , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Novel coordinate descent (CD) methods are proposed for minimizing nonconvex functions consisting of three terms: (i) a continuously differentiable term, (ii) a simple convex term, and (iii) a concave and continuous term. First, by extending…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-15 Qi Deng , Chenghao Lan

Three algebraically stabilized finite element schemes for discretizing convection-diffusion-reaction equations are studied on adaptively refined grids. These schemes are the algebraic flux correction (AFC) scheme with Kuzmin limiter, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Abhinav Jha , Volker John , Petr Knobloch

Decentralized learning recently has received increasing attention in machine learning due to its advantages in implementation simplicity and system robustness, data privacy. Meanwhile, the adaptive gradient methods show superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Feihu Huang , Jianyu Zhao

Distilling latent diffusion models (LDMs) into ones that are fast to sample from is attracting growing research interest. However, the majority of existing methods face two critical challenges: (1) They hinge on long training using a huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Qingsong Xie , Zhenyi Liao , Zhijie Deng , Chen chen , Haonan Lu

Multi-agent distributed consensus optimization problems arise in many signal processing applications. Recently, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been used for solving this family of problems. ADMM based distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang

We propose a convex distributed optimization algorithm for synthesizing robust controllers for large-scale continuous time systems subject to exogenous disturbances. Given a large scale system, instead of solving the larger centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Murat Cubuktepe , Ufuk Topcu , Takashi Tanaka

Diffusion Models (DM) and Consistency Models (CM) are two types of popular generative models with good generation quality on various tasks. When training DM and CM, intermediate weight checkpoints are not fully utilized and only the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Enshu Liu , Junyi Zhu , Zinan Lin , Xuefei Ning , Shuaiqi Wang , Matthew B. Blaschko , Sergey Yekhanin , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

We address distributed learning problems, both nonconvex and convex, over undirected networks. In particular, we design a novel algorithm based on the distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to address the challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini

Diffusion models (DMs) are capable of generating remarkably high-quality samples by iteratively denoising a random vector, a process that corresponds to moving along the probability flow ordinary differential equation (PF ODE).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liangchen Li , Jiajun He

Conditional generative models, particularly diffusion-based methods, have recently been applied to graph prediction by modeling the target as a conditional distribution given the input graph, yielding competitive results compared to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shaozhen Ma , Wei Huang , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Wenjie Zhang

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao