arXiv:2606. 07496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized stochastic optimization is a fundamental paradigm for large-scale learning over networks, where agents communicate only with their neighbors and no central coordinator is required.
By Ming Sun, Kun Yuan
arXiv:2608. 06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning and optimization have advanced together, with practical demands motivating new theory and theoretical breakthroughs enabling new applications.
By Grigory Malinovsky
SeedFlood is a novel decentralized fine‑tuning method for large language models that scales to billions of parameters and hundreds of clients. It leverages the seed‑reconstructible structure of zeroth‑order gradients to reduce message sizes to near‑zero, enabling efficient flooding across the network. Experiments show SeedFlood outperforms standard zeroth‑order baselines in communication efficiency and generalization, and rivals first‑order gossip methods while incurring far less communication cost.
By Jihun Kim, Dongyeop Lee, Namhoon Lee
arXiv:2511. 23347v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An associative memory (AM) enables cue-response recall, and it has recently been recognized as a key mechanism underlying modern neural architectures such as Transformers.
By Bowen Wang, Matteo Zecchin, Osvaldo Simeone
arXiv:2606. 04757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study decentralized stochastic smooth convex optimization, where $M$ workers minimize an average objective using local stochastic gradients and neighbor-only communication over a fixed gossip network.
By Nitai Kluger, Amit Attia, Tomer Koren
arXiv:2502.07977v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Empirical risk minimization (ERM) is a cornerstone of modern machine learning. This paper focuses on the man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, wherein a...
By Cheng Fang, Rishabh Dixit, Waheed U. Bajwa, Mert G\"urb\"uzbalaban