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most citedA Field Guide to Federated Optimization

167 citations · 294 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2021★ 11 cited

Efficient and Private Federated Learning with Partially Trainable Networks

Hakim Sidahmed, Zheng Xu, Ankush Garg +2

Federated learning is used for decentralized training of machine learning models on a large number (millions) of edge mobile devices. It is challenging because mobile devices often…

cs.LG2021★ 167 cited

A Field Guide to Federated Optimization

Jianyu Wang, Zachary Charles, Zheng Xu +50

Federated learning and analytics are a distributed approach for collaboratively learning models (or statistics) from decentralized data, motivated by and designed for privacy prote…

cs.LG2021★ 36 cited

Local-Global Knowledge Distillation in Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Non-IID Data

Dezhong Yao, Wanning Pan, Yutong Dai +5

Federated learning enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a global model by periodically aggregating the clients' models without transferring the local data. However, du…

cs.LG2021★ 21 cited

Local Adaptivity in Federated Learning: Convergence and Consistency

Jianyu Wang, Zheng Xu, Zachary Garrett +3

The federated learning (FL) framework trains a machine learning model using decentralized data stored at edge client devices by periodically aggregating locally trained models. Pop…

cs.CR2021★ 22 cited

Practical and Private (Deep) Learning without Sampling or Shuffling

Peter Kairouz, Brendan McMahan, Shuang Song +3

We consider training models with differential privacy (DP) using mini-batch gradients. The existing state-of-the-art, Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), r…

cs.LG2021★ 10 cited

GradInit: Learning to Initialize Neural Networks for Stable and Efficient Training

Chen Zhu, Renkun Ni, Zheng Xu +3

Innovations in neural architectures have fostered significant breakthroughs in language modeling and computer vision. Unfortunately, novel architectures often result in challenging…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Towards Accurate Quantization and Pruning via Data-free Knowledge Transfer

Chen Zhu, Zheng Xu, Ali Shafahi +3

When large scale training data is available, one can obtain compact and accurate networks to be deployed in resource-constrained environments effectively through quantization and p…

cs.LG2017★ 26 cited

Training Shallow and Thin Networks for Acceleration via Knowledge Distillation with Conditional Adversarial Networks

Zheng Xu, Yen-Chang Hsu, Jiawei Huang

There is an increasing interest on accelerating neural networks for real-time applications. We study the student-teacher strategy, in which a small and fast student network is trai…