arXiv Machine Learning

TAMUNA: Doubly Accelerated Distributed Optimization under Partial Participation

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

FedSLoP: Memory-Efficient Federated Learning with Low-Rank Gradient Projection

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 AI
Jul 7

Can Model Merging Improve Aggregation in DiLoCo?

arXiv:2607. 03011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging techniques, which aggregate independently finetuned models into one to combine their capabilities, have become a topic of significant interest in recent years, with a broad array of methods having been proposed to tackle this problem.

By Stefan Horoi, Benjamin Th\'erien, Guy Wolf, Eugene Belilovsky
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

SCAPE: Accurate and Efficient LLM Training with Extreme Sparse Communication

arXiv:2607. 01678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication increasingly dominates the cost of Large Language Model (LLM) pre-training, especially under data-parallel and sharded training schemes, where gradient synchronization and parameter reconstruction overhead increase with model size and system scale.

By Mingkai Zheng, Junlin Chen, Haotian Xie, Zhao Zhang