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most citedAsynchronous SGD on Graphs: a Unified Framework for Asynchronous Decentralized and Federated Optimization

2 citations · 2 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

stat.ML2026

Phase Transition in Convex Relaxations for Graph Alignment

Laurent Massoulié, Sushil Mahavir Varma, Louis Vassaux +1

We study the graph alignment problem for correlated Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE) matrices, where the goal is to recover a hidden vertex permutation given two correlated symme…

cs.LG2026

Learning with Shallow Neural Networks on Cluster-Structured Features

Elisabetta Cornacchia, Laurent Massoulié

The success of deep learning in high-dimensional settings is often attributed to the presence of low-dimensional structure in real-world data. While standard theoretical models typ…

cs.LG2026

Unbiased Approximate Vector-Jacobian Products for Efficient Backpropagation

Killian Bakong, Laurent Massoulié, Edouard Oyallon +1

In this work we introduce methods to reduce the computational and memory costs of training deep neural networks. Our approach consists in replacing exact vector-jacobian products b…

stat.ML2026

Improved Analysis of the Accelerated Noisy Power Method with Applications to Decentralized PCA

Pierre Aguié, Mathieu Even, Laurent Massoulié

We analyze the Accelerated Noisy Power Method, an algorithm for Principal Component Analysis in the setting where only inexact matrix-vector products are available, which can arise…

math.PR2026

The value of random zero-sum games

Romain Cosson, Laurent Massoulié

We study the value of a two-player zero-sum game on a random matrix , defined by . In the setting where $n…

quant-ph2025

Performance of Gaussian Boson Sampling on Planted Bipartite Clique Detection

Yu-Zhen Janice Chen, Laurent Massoulié, Don Towsley

We investigate whether Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) can provide a computational advantage for solving the planted biclique problem, which is a graph problem widely believed to be…

math.PR2025

Computational thresholds in high-dimensional statistics: the case of graph alignment

Laurent Massoulié

In this article we consider the graph alignment problem from the perspective of high-dimensional statistics: we aim to estimate an unknown permutation from the observation of…

cs.DS2025

Asynchronous Collective Tree Exploration: a Distributed Algorithm, and a new Lower Bound

Romain Cosson, Laurent Massoulié

We study the problem of collective tree exploration in which a team of mobile agents must collectively visit all nodes of an unknown tree in as few moves as possible. The agent…

stat.ML2025

Adaptive collaboration for online personalized distributed learning with heterogeneous clients

Constantin Philippenko, Batiste Le Bars, Kevin Scaman +1

We study the problem of online personalized decentralized learning with statistically heterogeneous clients collaborating to accelerate local training. An important challenge i…

cs.IT2025

Asymmetric graph alignment and the phase transition for asymmetric tree correlation testing

Jakob Maier, Laurent Massoulié

Graph alignment - identifying node correspondences between two graphs - is a fundamental problem with applications in network analysis, biology, and privacy research. While substan…

stat.ML2025

Graph Alignment via Birkhoff Relaxation

Sushil Mahavir Varma, Irène Waldspurger, Laurent Massoulié

We consider the graph alignment problem, wherein the objective is to find a vertex correspondence between two graphs that maximizes the edge overlap. The graph alignment problem is…

cs.LG2025

Meta-learning of shared linear representations beyond well-specified linear regression

Mathieu Even, Laurent Massoulié

Motivated by multi-task and meta-learning approaches, we consider the problem of learning structure shared by tasks or users, such as shared low-rank representations or clustered s…

math.ST2025

The feasibility of multi-graph alignment: a Bayesian approach

Louis Vassaux, Laurent Massoulié

We establish thresholds for the feasibility of random multi-graph alignment in two models. In the Gaussian model, we demonstrate an "all-or-nothing" phenomenon: above a critical th…

cs.LG2024

In-depth Analysis of Low-rank Matrix Factorisation in a Federated Setting

Constantin Philippenko, Kevin Scaman, Laurent Massoulié

We analyze a distributed algorithm to compute a low-rank matrix factorization on clients, each holding a local dataset , mathematica…

stat.ML2024

Aligning Embeddings and Geometric Random Graphs: Informational Results and Computational Approaches for the Procrustes-Wasserstein Problem

Mathieu Even, Luca Ganassali, Jakob Maier +1

The Procrustes-Wasserstein problem consists in matching two high-dimensional point clouds in an unsupervised setting, and has many applications in natural language processing and c…

cs.DS2024

Barely Random Algorithms and Collective Metrical Task Systems

Romain Cosson, Laurent Massoulié

We consider metrical task systems on general metric spaces with points, and show that any fully randomized algorithm can be turned into a randomized algorithm that uses only $2…

cs.DS2023

Collective Tree Exploration via Potential Function Method

Romain Cosson, Laurent Massoulié

We study the problem of collective tree exploration (CTE) where a team of agents is tasked to traverse all the edges of an unknown tree as fast as possible, assuming complete c…

math.OC2023★ 2 cited

Asynchronous SGD on Graphs: a Unified Framework for Asynchronous Decentralized and Federated Optimization

Mathieu Even, Anastasia Koloskova, Laurent Massoulié

Decentralized and asynchronous communications are two popular techniques to speedup communication complexity of distributed machine learning, by respectively removing the dependenc…

cs.DC2023

Breadth-First Depth-Next: Optimal Collaborative Exploration of Trees with Low Diameter

Romain Cosson, Laurent Massoulié, Laurent Viennot

We consider the problem of collaborative tree exploration posed by Fraigniaud, Gasieniec, Kowalski, and Pelc where a team of agents is tasked to collectively go through all the…