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most citedVariance Reduced Local SGD with Lower Communication Complexity

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cs.LG2020

STL-SGD: Speeding Up Local SGD with Stagewise Communication Period

Shuheng Shen, Yifei Cheng, Jingchang Liu +1

Distributed parallel stochastic gradient descent algorithms are workhorses for large scale machine learning tasks. Among them, local stochastic gradient descent (Local SGD) has att…

cs.LG201990 cited

Variance Reduced Local SGD with Lower Communication Complexity

Xianfeng Liang, Shuheng Shen, Jingchang Liu +3

To accelerate the training of machine learning models, distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants have been widely adopted, which apply multiple workers in para…

cs.LG2019

Faster Distributed Deep Net Training: Computation and Communication Decoupled Stochastic Gradient Descent

Shuheng Shen, Linli Xu, Jingchang Liu +2

With the increase in the amount of data and the expansion of model scale, distributed parallel training becomes an important and successful technique to address the optimization ch…

math.OC2018

Asynchronous Stochastic Composition Optimization with Variance Reduction

Shuheng Shen, Linli Xu, Jingchang Liu +2

Composition optimization has drawn a lot of attention in a wide variety of machine learning domains from risk management to reinforcement learning. Existing methods solving the com…

cs.LG2018

Accelerating Stochastic Gradient Descent Using Antithetic Sampling

Jingchang Liu, Linli Xu

(Mini-batch) Stochastic Gradient Descent is a popular optimization method which has been applied to many machine learning applications. But a rather high variance introduced by the…