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In federated distributed learning, the goal is to optimize a global training objective defined over distributed devices, where the data shard at each device is sampled from a possibly different distribution (a.k.a., heterogeneous or non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Farzin Haddadpour , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

In distributed machine learning, a central node outsources computationally expensive calculations to external worker nodes. The properties of optimization procedures like stochastic gradient descent (SGD) can be leveraged to mitigate the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Maximilian Egger , Serge Kas Hanna , Rawad Bitar

Split federated learning (SFL) is a recent distributed approach for collaborative model training among multiple clients. In SFL, a global model is typically split into two parts, where clients train one part in a parallel federated manner,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Pengchao Han , Chao Huang , Geng Tian , Ming Tang , Xin Liu

Federated learning enables the clients to collaboratively train a global model, which is aggregated from local models. Due to the heterogeneous data distributions over clients and data privacy in federated learning, it is difficult to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wujun Zhou , Shu Ding , ZeLin Li , Wei Wang

We study a new form of federated learning where the clients train personalized local models and make predictions jointly with the server-side shared model. Using this new federated learning framework, the complexity of the central shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Alekh Agarwal , John Langford , Chen-Yu Wei

This paper presents a theoretical analysis and practical evaluation of the main bottlenecks towards a scalable distributed solution for the training of Deep Neuronal Networks (DNNs). The presented results show, that the current state of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Janis Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt

Split Federated Learning (SFL) enables scalable training on edge devices by combining the parallelism of Federated Learning (FL) with the computational offloading of Split Learning (SL). Despite its great success, SFL suffers significantly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Dandan Liang , Jianing Zhang , Evan Chen , Zhe Li , Rui Li , Haibo Yang

Stochastic variance reduced methods have gained a lot of interest recently for empirical risk minimization due to its appealing run time complexity. When the data size is large and disjointly stored on different machines, it becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Shicong Cen , Huishuai Zhang , Yuejie Chi , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Humans are able to accelerate their learning by selecting training materials that are the most informative and at the appropriate level of difficulty. We propose a framework for distributing deep learning in which one set of workers search…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-19 Guillaume Alain , Alex Lamb , Chinnadhurai Sankar , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

We propose a novel federated learning method for distributively training neural network models, where the server orchestrates cooperation between a subset of randomly chosen devices in each round. We view Federated Learning problem…

We design and implement a distributed multinode synchronous SGD algorithm, without altering hyper parameters, or compressing data, or altering algorithmic behavior. We perform a detailed analysis of scaling, and identify optimal design…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Dipankar Das , Sasikanth Avancha , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Karthikeyan Vaidynathan , Srinivas Sridharan , Dhiraj Kalamkar , Bharat Kaul , Pradeep Dubey

Federated learning obtains a central model on the server by aggregating models trained locally on clients. As a result, federated learning does not require clients to upload their data to the server, thereby preserving the data privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yang Chen , Xiaoyan Sun , Yaochu Jin

We study the problem of how to distribute the training of large-scale deep learning models in the parallel computing environment. We propose a new distributed stochastic optimization method called Elastic Averaging SGD (EASGD). We analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Sixin Zhang

We describe a computationally efficient, stochastic graph-regularization technique that can be utilized for the semi-supervised training of deep neural networks in a parallel or distributed setting. We utilize a technique, first described…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-31 Sunil Thulasidasan , Jeffrey Bilmes , Garrett Kenyon

To enable training of large artificial intelligence (AI) models at the network edge, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as a promising approach by distributing computation between edge devices and a server. However, while unstable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wei Wei , Zheng Lin , Xihui Liu , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Xianhao Chen

With the increasing demand for large-scale training of machine learning models, consensus-based distributed optimization methods have recently been advocated as alternatives to the popular parameter server framework. In this paradigm, each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Guojun Xiong , Gang Yan , Rahul Singh , Jian Li

In the last decade, data-driven algorithms outperformed traditional optimization-based algorithms in many research areas, such as computer vision, natural language processing, etc. However, extensive data usages bring a new challenge or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Shih-Chun Lin , Chia-Hung Lin

Current techniques and systems for distributed model training mostly assume that clusters are comprised of homogeneous servers with a constant resource availability. However, cluster heterogeneity is pervasive in computing infrastructure,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Sahil Tyagi , Prateek Sharma

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is essential for scaling the machine learning algorithms to a large number of computing nodes. However, the infrastructures variability such as high communication delay or random node slowdown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jianyu Wang , Hao Liang , Gauri Joshi