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20182021
most citedFall of Empires: Breaking Byzantine-tolerant SGD by Inner Product Manipulation

58 citations · 59 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.DC20211 cited

Compressed Communication for Distributed Training: Adaptive Methods and System

Yuchen Zhong, Cong Xie, Shuai Zheng +1

Communication overhead severely hinders the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a growing interest in using gradient compression to reduce…

cs.LG2020

CSER: Communication-efficient SGD with Error Reset

Cong Xie, Shuai Zheng, Oluwasanmi Koyejo +3

The scalability of Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is today limited by communication bottlenecks. We propose a novel SGD variant: Communication-efficient SGD with Err…

cs.LG2019

Local AdaAlter: Communication-Efficient Stochastic Gradient Descent with Adaptive Learning Rates

Cong Xie, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Indranil Gupta +1

When scaling distributed training, the communication overhead is often the bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a novel SGD variant with reduced communication and adaptive learnin…

cs.LG201958 cited

Fall of Empires: Breaking Byzantine-tolerant SGD by Inner Product Manipulation

Cong Xie, Sanmi Koyejo, Indranil Gupta

Recently, new defense techniques have been developed to tolerate Byzantine failures for distributed machine learning. The Byzantine model captures workers that behave arbitrarily,…

cs.LG2019

SLSGD: Secure and Efficient Distributed On-device Machine Learning

Cong Xie, Sanmi Koyejo, Indranil Gupta

We consider distributed on-device learning with limited communication and security requirements. We propose a new robust distributed optimization algorithm with efficient communica…

cs.DC2019

Asynchronous Federated Optimization

Cong Xie, Sanmi Koyejo, Indranil Gupta

Federated learning enables training on a massive number of edge devices. To improve flexibility and scalability, we propose a new asynchronous federated optimization algorithm. We…