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most citedMARINA: Faster Non-Convex Distributed Learning with Compression

15 citations · 33 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2025

Optimization Methods and Software for Federated Learning

Konstantin Burlachenko

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel, multidisciplinary Machine Learning paradigm where multiple clients, such as mobile devices, collaborate to solve machine learning problems. Init…

cs.LG2025

BurTorch: Revisiting Training from First Principles by Coupling Autodiff, Math Optimization, and Systems

Konstantin Burlachenko, Peter Richtárik

In this work, we introduce BurTorch, a compact high-performance framework designed to optimize Deep Learning (DL) training on single-node workstations through an exceptionally effi…

cs.LG2024

Unlocking FedNL: Self-Contained Compute-Optimized Implementation

Konstantin Burlachenko, Peter Richtárik

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that enables intelligent agents to collaboratively train Machine Learning (ML) models in a distributed manner, eliminating the need…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Error Feedback Reloaded: From Quadratic to Arithmetic Mean of Smoothness Constants

Peter Richtárik, Elnur Gasanov, Konstantin Burlachenko

Error Feedback (EF) is a highly popular and immensely effective mechanism for fixing convergence issues which arise in distributed training methods (such as distributed GD or SGD)…

math.OC2023

Error Feedback Shines when Features are Rare

Peter Richtárik, Elnur Gasanov, Konstantin Burlachenko

We provide the first proof that gradient descent with greedy sparsification and error feedback $\left({\…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Federated Learning with Regularized Client Participation

Grigory Malinovsky, Samuel Horváth, Konstantin Burlachenko +1

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach where multiple clients work together to solve a machine learning task. One of the key challenges in FL is the iss…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Personalized Federated Learning with Communication Compression

El Houcine Bergou, Konstantin Burlachenko, Aritra Dutta +1

In contrast to training traditional machine learning (ML) models in data centers, federated learning (FL) trains ML models over local datasets contained on resource-constrained het…

cs.LG2022

Sharper Rates and Flexible Framework for Nonconvex SGD with Client and Data Sampling

Alexander Tyurin, Lukang Sun, Konstantin Burlachenko +1

We revisit the classical problem of finding an approximately stationary point of the average of smooth and possibly nonconvex functions. The optimal complexity of stochastic fi…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Federated Optimization Algorithms with Random Reshuffling and Gradient Compression

Abdurakhmon Sadiev, Grigory Malinovsky, Eduard Gorbunov +4

Gradient compression is a popular technique for improving communication complexity of stochastic first-order methods in distributed training of machine learning models. However, th…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

FL_PyTorch: optimization research simulator for federated learning

Konstantin Burlachenko, Samuel Horváth, Peter Richtárik

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising technique for edge devices to collaboratively learn a shared machine learning model while keeping training data locally on the de…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Faster Rates for Compressed Federated Learning with Client-Variance Reduction

Haoyu Zhao, Konstantin Burlachenko, Zhize Li +1

Due to the communication bottleneck in distributed and federated learning applications, algorithms using communication compression have attracted significant attention and are wide…

cs.LG2021★ 15 cited

MARINA: Faster Non-Convex Distributed Learning with Compression

Eduard Gorbunov, Konstantin Burlachenko, Zhize Li +1

We develop and analyze MARINA: a new communication efficient method for non-convex distributed learning over heterogeneous datasets. MARINA employs a novel communication compressio…