arXiv:2405. 11667v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Local SGD is a popular optimization method in distributed learning, often outperforming other algorithms in practice, including mini-batch SGD.
By Kumar Kshitij Patel, Margalit Glasgow, Ali Zindari, Lingxiao Wang, Sebastian U. Stich, Ziheng Cheng, Nirmit Joshi, Nathan Srebro
arXiv:2604. 24012v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory costs in heterogeneous, resource-constrained environments.
By Yutong He, Zhengyang Huang, Jiahe Geng, Kun Yuan
arXiv:2302. 09832v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In distributed optimization and federated learning, slow and costly communication between parallel devices and the central server constitutes the primary bottleneck.
By Laurent Condat, Ivan Agarsk\'y, Grigory Malinovsky, Peter Richt\'arik
arXiv:2606. 01128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication overhead is a crucial bottleneck in scalable distributed learning.
By Tehila Dahan, Bassel Hamoud, Roie Reshef, Martin Jaggi, Kfir Y. Levy
arXiv:2603. 05774v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper addresses the distributed stochastic minimax optimization problem subject to stochastic constraints.
By Zhankun Luo, Antesh Upadhyay, Sang Bin Moon, Abolfazl Hashemi
arXiv:2605. 28335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, but it is highly vulnerable to Byzantine attacks.
By Shiyuan Zuo, Jiashuo Li, Rongfei Fan, Han Hu, Jie Xu
arXiv:2602. 04396v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distributed training of foundation models via $\texttt{DDP}$ is limited by interconnect bandwidth.
By Andrej Jovanovi\'c, Alex Iacob, Mher Safaryan, Ionut-Vlad Modoranu, Lorenzo Sani, William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Dan Alistarh, Nicholas D. Lane
arXiv:2504. 12742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without relying on a central server.
By Yuan Zhou, Xinli Shi, Xuelong Li, Jiachen Zhong, Guanghui Wen, Jinde Cao
arXiv:2606. 10124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is often subject to aggregation variance if clients do not consistently participate in training rounds.
By Haoran Zhang, Cain\~a Figueiredo Pereira, Marie Siew, Xutong Liu, Carlee Joe-Wong, Rachid El-Azouzi
arXiv:2607. 00275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm with collaboration among multiple clients without sharing data.
By Krishna Harsha Kovelakuntla Huthasana, Alireza Olama, Andreas Lundell
arXiv:2607. 25835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs) provide a popular framework for distributed decision making under limited communication, but many real-world instances are too large to solve monolithically.
By Itai Zilberstein, Pranav Rajbhandari, Steve Chien, Tuomas Sandholm
arXiv:2606. 11081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication-efficient pre-training of LLMs is increasingly important as training draws on compute distributed across clusters, data centers, and lower-bandwidth links.
By Pietro Cagnasso, Eugene Belilovsky, Edouard Oyallon