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most citedA Simple Proximal Stochastic Gradient Method for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization

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cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Faster Rates for Compressed Federated Learning with Client-Variance Reduction

Haoyu Zhao, Konstantin Burlachenko, Zhize Li +1

Due to the communication bottleneck in distributed and federated learning applications, algorithms using communication compression have attracted significant attention and are wide…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Factored couplings in multi-marginal optimal transport via difference of convex programming

Quang Huy Tran, Hicham Janati, Ievgen Redko +2

Optimal transport (OT) theory underlies many emerging machine learning (ML) methods nowadays solving a wide range of tasks such as generative modeling, transfer learning and inform…

cs.LG2021

EF21 with Bells & Whistles: Six Algorithmic Extensions of Modern Error Feedback

Ilyas Fatkhullin, Igor Sokolov, Eduard Gorbunov +2

First proposed by Seide (2014) as a heuristic, error feedback (EF) is a very popular mechanism for enforcing convergence of distributed gradient-based optimization methods enhanced…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

FedPAGE: A Fast Local Stochastic Gradient Method for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning

Haoyu Zhao, Zhize Li, Peter Richtárik

Federated Averaging (FedAvg, also known as Local-SGD) (McMahan et al., 2017) is a classical federated learning algorithm in which clients run multiple local SGD steps before commun…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

CANITA: Faster Rates for Distributed Convex Optimization with Communication Compression

Zhize Li, Peter Richtárik

Due to the high communication cost in distributed and federated learning, methods relying on compressed communication are becoming increasingly popular. Besides, the best theoretic…

math.OC2021★ 5 cited

A Short Note of PAGE: Optimal Convergence Rates for Nonconvex Optimization

Zhize Li

In this note, we first recall the nonconvex problem setting and introduce the optimal PAGE algorithm (Li et al., ICML'21). Then we provide a simple and clean convergence analysis o…