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20192026
most citedImproving Federated Learning Personalization via Model Agnostic Meta Learning

365 citations · 537 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.LG2026

LoRA-generating hypernetworks for efficient on-device LLM generative personalization

Sean Augenstein, Li Ding, Jihwan Lee +2

On-device large language models (`LLMs'), e.g. running on mobile phones, are ripe for improvement via personalization. The limited compute resources of mobile devices impose limits…

cs.CL2026

Mixture of Training: Recombining Small-Scale Scaffolded Pretraining Runs into a Larger Language Model

Mohammed Sabry, Sean Augenstein, Keith Rush +1

We ask whether language-model pre-training can be decomposed into smaller, independently trainable jobs that can later be recomposed into a coherent larger model. We introduce Mixt…

cs.CL2026

Decoupled DiLoCo for Resilient Distributed Pre-training

Arthur Douillard, Keith Rush, Yani Donchev +14

Modern large-scale language model pre-training relies heavily on the single program multiple data (SPMD) paradigm, which requires tight coupling across accelerators. Due to this co…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Correlated Noise Mechanisms for Differentially Private Learning

Krishna Pillutla, Jalaj Upadhyay, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo +9

This monograph explores the design and analysis of correlated noise mechanisms for differential privacy (DP), focusing on their application to private training of AI and machine le…

cs.LG2025

Communication-Efficient Language Model Training Scales Reliably and Robustly: Scaling Laws for DiLoCo

Zachary Charles, Gabriel Teston, Lucio Dery +5

As we scale to more massive machine learning models, the frequent synchronization demands inherent in data-parallel approaches create significant slowdowns, posing a critical chall…

cs.CL2025

Streaming DiLoCo with overlapping communication: Towards a Distributed Free Lunch

Arthur Douillard, Yanislav Donchev, Keith Rush +11

Training of large language models (LLMs) is typically distributed across a large number of accelerators to reduce training time. Since internal states and parameter gradients need…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with User-Level Differential Privacy

Zachary Charles, Arun Ganesh, Ryan McKenna +4

We investigate practical and scalable algorithms for training large language models (LLMs) with user-level differential privacy (DP) in order to provably safeguard all the examples…

cs.DC2024

DrJAX: Scalable and Differentiable MapReduce Primitives in JAX

Keith Rush, Zachary Charles, Zachary Garrett +2

We present DrJAX, a JAX-based library designed to support large-scale distributed and parallel machine learning algorithms that use MapReduce-style operations. DrJAX leverages JAX'…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

(Amplified) Banded Matrix Factorization: A unified approach to private training

Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Arun Ganesh, Ryan McKenna +4

Matrix factorization (MF) mechanisms for differential privacy (DP) have substantially improved the state-of-the-art in privacy-utility-computation tradeoffs for ML applications in…

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…

cs.LG2023

Federated Automatic Differentiation

Keith Rush, Zachary Charles, Zachary Garrett

Federated learning (FL) is a general framework for learning across an axis of group partitioned data (heterogeneous clients) while preserving data privacy, under the orchestration…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Multi-Epoch Matrix Factorization Mechanisms for Private Machine Learning

Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, H. Brendan McMahan, Keith Rush +1

We introduce new differentially private (DP) mechanisms for gradient-based machine learning (ML) with multiple passes (epochs) over a dataset, substantially improving the achievabl…

math.OC2021

Iterated Vector Fields and Conservatism, with Applications to Federated Learning

Zachary Charles, Keith Rush

We study whether iterated vector fields (vector fields composed with themselves) are conservative. We give explicit examples of vector fields for which this self-composition preser…

cs.LG2021★ 24 cited

Federated Reconstruction: Partially Local Federated Learning

Karan Singhal, Hakim Sidahmed, Zachary Garrett +3

Personalization methods in federated learning aim to balance the benefits of federated and local training for data availability, communication cost, and robustness to client hetero…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

Fast Dimension Independent Private AdaGrad on Publicly Estimated Subspaces

Peter Kairouz, Mónica Ribero, Keith Rush +1

We revisit the problem of empirical risk minimziation (ERM) with differential privacy. We show that noisy AdaGrad, given appropriate knowledge and conditions on the subspace from w…

cs.LG2020★ 126 cited

Adaptive Federated Optimization

Sashank Reddi, Zachary Charles, Manzil Zaheer +5

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own trainin…

cs.LG2019★ 365 cited

Improving Federated Learning Personalization via Model Agnostic Meta Learning

Yihan Jiang, Jakub Konečný, Keith Rush +1

Federated Learning (FL) refers to learning a high quality global model based on decentralized data storage, without ever copying the raw data. A natural scenario arises with data c…