4 papers
ADKO: Agentic Decentralized Knowledge Optimization
Lucas Nerone Rillo, Zhanhong Jiang, Nastaran Saadati +4
We present Agentic Decentralized Knowledge Optimization (ADKO), a framework for collaborative black-box optimization across autonomous agents that achieves sample efficiency, priva…
Balancing Utility and Privacy: Dynamically Private SGD with Random Projection
Zhanhong Jiang, Md Zahid Hasan, Nastaran Saadati +3
Stochastic optimization is a pivotal enabler in modern machine learning, producing effective models for various tasks. However, several existing works have shown that model paramet…
DeCAF: Decentralized Consensus-And-Factorization for Low-Rank Adaptation of Foundation Models
Nastaran Saadati, Zhanhong Jiang, Joshua R. Waite +4
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as one of the most effective, computationally tractable fine-tuning approaches for training Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language…
DIMAT: Decentralized Iterative Merging-And-Training for Deep Learning Models
Nastaran Saadati, Minh Pham, Nasla Saleem +5
Recent advances in decentralized deep learning algorithms have demonstrated cutting-edge performance on various tasks with large pre-trained models. However, a pivotal prerequisite…