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most citedLayered Randomized Quantization for Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning

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cs.LG2024

Improved Quantization Strategies for Managing Heavy-tailed Gradients in Distributed Learning

Guangfeng Yan, Tan Li, Yuanzhang Xiao +2

Gradient compression has surfaced as a key technique to address the challenge of communication efficiency in distributed learning. In distributed deep learning, however, it is obse…

cs.LG2024

Truncated Non-Uniform Quantization for Distributed SGD

Guangfeng Yan, Tan Li, Yuanzhang Xiao +2

To address the communication bottleneck challenge in distributed learning, our work introduces a novel two-stage quantization strategy designed to enhance the communication efficie…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Towards Quantum-Safe Federated Learning via Homomorphic Encryption: Learning with Gradients

Guangfeng Yan, Shanxiang Lyu, Hanxu Hou +2

This paper introduces a privacy-preserving distributed learning framework via private-key homomorphic encryption. Thanks to the randomness of the quantization of gradients, our lea…

cs.DC2023★ 3 cited

Layered Randomized Quantization for Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning

Guangfeng Yan, Tan Li, Tian Lan +2

Next-generation wireless networks, such as edge intelligence and wireless distributed learning, face two critical challenges: communication efficiency and privacy protection. In th…

cs.LG2023

Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Quantization Achieves Privacy in Distributed Learning

Guangfeng Yan, Tan Li, Kui Wu +1

Communication efficiency and privacy protection are two critical issues in distributed machine learning. Existing methods tackle these two issues separately and may have a high imp…

cs.LG2022

Adaptive Top-K in SGD for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning

Mengzhe Ruan, Guangfeng Yan, Yuanzhang Xiao +2

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with gradient compression has become a popular communication-efficient solution for accelerating distributed learning. One commonly us…

cs.LG2021

DQ-SGD: Dynamic Quantization in SGD for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning

Guangfeng Yan, Shao-Lun Huang, Tian Lan +1

Gradient quantization is an emerging technique in reducing communication costs in distributed learning. Existing gradient quantization algorithms often rely on engineering heuristi…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

Communication Efficient Federated Learning with Adaptive Quantization

Yuzhu Mao, Zihao Zhao, Guangfeng Yan +4

Federated learning (FL) has attracted tremendous attentions in recent years due to its privacy preserving measures and great potentials in some distributed but privacy-sensitive ap…