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: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
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. 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
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
Communication-efficient pre-training of LLMs is increasingly important as training draws on compute distributed across clusters, data centers, and lower-bandwidth links. Many practical methods reduce communication frequency but still rely on synchronous All-Reduce operations that maintain identical model states and tie progress to global collectives.