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most citedDecentralized Stochastic Optimization and Gossip Algorithms with Compressed Communication

185 citations · 459 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2023

On Convergence of Incremental Gradient for Non-Convex Smooth Functions

Anastasia Koloskova, Nikita Doikov, Sebastian U. Stich +1

In machine learning and neural network optimization, algorithms like incremental gradient, and shuffle SGD are popular due to minimizing the number of cache misses and good practic…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Revisiting Gradient Clipping: Stochastic bias and tight convergence guarantees

Anastasia Koloskova, Hadrien Hendrikx, Sebastian U. Stich

Gradient clipping is a popular modification to standard (stochastic) gradient descent, at every iteration limiting the gradient norm to a certain value . It is widely used fo…

cs.LG2023

Gradient Descent with Linearly Correlated Noise: Theory and Applications to Differential Privacy

Anastasia Koloskova, Ryan McKenna, Zachary Charles +2

We study gradient descent under linearly correlated noise. Our work is motivated by recent practical methods for optimization with differential privacy (DP), such as DP-FTRL, which…

math.OC2023★ 1 cited

Decentralized Gradient Tracking with Local Steps

Yue Liu, Tao Lin, Anastasia Koloskova +1

Gradient tracking (GT) is an algorithm designed for solving decentralized optimization problems over a network (such as training a machine learning model). A key feature of GT is a…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

Sharper Convergence Guarantees for Asynchronous SGD for Distributed and Federated Learning

Anastasia Koloskova, Sebastian U. Stich, Martin Jaggi

We study the asynchronous stochastic gradient descent algorithm for distributed training over workers which have varying computation and communication frequency over time. In t…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

Data-heterogeneity-aware Mixing for Decentralized Learning

Yatin Dandi, Anastasia Koloskova, Martin Jaggi +1

Decentralized learning provides an effective framework to train machine learning models with data distributed over arbitrary communication graphs. However, most existing approaches…

cs.DC2022★ 7 cited

An Improved Analysis of Gradient Tracking for Decentralized Machine Learning

Anastasia Koloskova, Tao Lin, Sebastian U. Stich

We consider decentralized machine learning over a network where the training data is distributed across agents, each of which can compute stochastic model updates on their loca…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

RelaySum for Decentralized Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Data

Thijs Vogels, Lie He, Anastasia Koloskova +4

In decentralized machine learning, workers compute model updates on their local data. Because the workers only communicate with few neighbors without central coordination, these up…

math.OC2021

Decentralized Local Stochastic Extra-Gradient for Variational Inequalities

Aleksandr Beznosikov, Pavel Dvurechensky, Anastasia Koloskova +3

We consider distributed stochastic variational inequalities (VIs) on unbounded domains with the problem data that is heterogeneous (non-IID) and distributed across many devices. We…

cs.LG2021★ 23 cited

Consensus Control for Decentralized Deep Learning

Lingjing Kong, Tao Lin, Anastasia Koloskova +2

Decentralized training of deep learning models enables on-device learning over networks, as well as efficient scaling to large compute clusters. Experiments in earlier works reveal…

math.OC2020★ 4 cited

A Linearly Convergent Algorithm for Decentralized Optimization: Sending Less Bits for Free!

Dmitry Kovalev, Anastasia Koloskova, Martin Jaggi +2

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy dem…

cs.LG2020★ 163 cited

A Unified Theory of Decentralized SGD with Changing Topology and Local Updates

Anastasia Koloskova, Nicolas Loizou, Sadra Boreiri +2

Decentralized stochastic optimization methods have gained a lot of attention recently, mainly because of their cheap per iteration cost, data locality, and their communication-effi…

cs.LG2019★ 30 cited

Decentralized Deep Learning with Arbitrary Communication Compression

Anastasia Koloskova, Tao Lin, Sebastian U. Stich +1

Decentralized training of deep learning models is a key element for enabling data privacy and on-device learning over networks, as well as for efficient scaling to large compute cl…

cs.LG2019★ 185 cited

Decentralized Stochastic Optimization and Gossip Algorithms with Compressed Communication

Anastasia Koloskova, Sebastian U. Stich, Martin Jaggi

We consider decentralized stochastic optimization with the objective function (e.g. data samples for machine learning task) being distributed over machines that can only commun…

math.OC2018★ 9 cited

Efficient Greedy Coordinate Descent for Composite Problems

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Anastasia Koloskova, Sebastian U. Stich +1

Coordinate descent with random coordinate selection is the current state of the art for many large scale optimization problems. However, greedy selection of the steepest coordinate…