Beyond spectral gap: The role of the topology in decentralized learning

T Vogels, H Hendrikx, M Jaggi - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In data-parallel optimization of machine learning models, workers collaborate to improve
their estimates of the model: more accurate gradients allow them to use larger learning rates …

Refined convergence and topology learning for decentralized sgd with heterogeneous data

B Le Bars, A Bellet, M Tommasi… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
One of the key challenges in decentralized and federated learning is to design algorithms
that efficiently deal with highly heterogeneous data distributions across agents. In this paper …

Joint model pruning and topology construction for accelerating decentralized machine learning

Z Jiang, Y Xu, H Xu, L Wang, C Qiao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, mobile and embedded devices worldwide generate a massive amount of data at
the network edge. To efficiently exploit the data from distributed devices, we concentrate on …

Enhancing federated learning robustness through randomization and mixture

S Nabavirazavi, R Taheri, SS Iyengar - Future Generation Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Protecting data privacy is a significant challenge in machine learning (ML), and federated
learning (FL) has emerged as a decentralized learning solution to address this issue …

D-cliques: Compensating for data heterogeneity with topology in decentralized federated learning

A Bellet, AM Kermarrec, E Lavoie - 2022 41st International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The convergence speed of machine learning models trained with Federated Learning is
significantly affected by heterogeneous data partitions, even more so in a fully decentralized …

Collaborative learning via prediction consensus

D Fan, C Mendler-Dünner… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider a collaborative learning setting where the goal of each agent is to improve their
own model by leveraging the expertise of collaborators, in addition to their own training data …

Fully distributed federated learning with efficient local cooperations

E Georgatos, C Mavrokefalidis… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a shift has been observed towards the so-called edge machine learning, which
allow multiple devices with local computational and storage resources to collaborate with …

Homogenizing non-iid datasets via in-distribution knowledge distillation for decentralized learning

D Ravikumar, G Saha, SA Aketi, K Roy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04326, 2023 - arxiv.org
Decentralized learning enables serverless training of deep neural networks (DNNs) in a
distributed manner on multiple nodes. This allows for the use of large datasets, as well as …

Beyond spectral gap (extended): The role of the topology in decentralized learning

T Vogels, H Hendrikx, M Jaggi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02151, 2023 - arxiv.org
In data-parallel optimization of machine learning models, workers collaborate to improve
their estimates of the model: more accurate gradients allow them to use larger learning rates …

Optimizing Decentralized Learning with Local Heterogeneity using Topology Morphing and Clustering

W Abebe, A Jannesari - 2023 IEEE/ACM 23rd International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, local peer topology has been shown to influence the overall convergence of
decentralized learning (DL) graphs in the presence of data heterogeneity. In this paper, we …