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20172019
most citedHyper-Sphere Quantization: Communication-Efficient SGD for Federated Learning

32 citations · 45 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2019★ 32 cited

Hyper-Sphere Quantization: Communication-Efficient SGD for Federated Learning

Xinyan Dai, Xiao Yan, Kaiwen Zhou +4

The high cost of communicating gradients is a major bottleneck for federated learning, as the bandwidth of the participating user devices is limited. Existing gradient compression…

cs.IR2019★ 4 cited

Norm-Explicit Quantization: Improving Vector Quantization for Maximum Inner Product Search

Xinyan Dai, Xiao Yan, Kelvin K. W. Ng +2

Vector quantization (VQ) techniques are widely used in similarity search for data compression, fast metric computation and etc. Originally designed for Euclidean distance, existing…

cs.DC2019

Pyramid: A General Framework for Distributed Similarity Search

Shiyuan Deng, Xiao Yan, Kelvin K. W. Ng +2

Similarity search is a core component in various applications such as image matching, product recommendation and low-shot classification. However, single machine solutions are usua…

stat.ML2018★ 7 cited

Guaranteed Sufficient Decrease for Stochastic Variance Reduced Gradient Optimization

Fanhua Shang, Yuanyuan Liu, Kaiwen Zhou +3

In this paper, we propose a novel sufficient decrease technique for stochastic variance reduced gradient descent methods such as SVRG and SAGA. In order to make sufficient decrease…

cs.LG2017★ 2 cited

Guaranteed Sufficient Decrease for Variance Reduced Stochastic Gradient Descent

Fanhua Shang, Yuanyuan Liu, James Cheng +2

In this paper, we propose a novel sufficient decrease technique for variance reduced stochastic gradient descent methods such as SAG, SVRG and SAGA. In order to make sufficient dec…