arXiv:2607. 14731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local SGD, also known as Federated Averaging, is a widely used distributed optimization algorithm.
By Kumar Kshitij Patel, Rustem Islamov, Sebastian U Stich, Aurelien Lucchi, Eduard Gorbunov, Lingxiao Wang
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: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: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: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