Peter Richtarik

CANITA: Faster Rates for Distributed Convex Optimization with Communication Compression

Due to the high communication cost in distributed and federated learning...
07/20/2021 ∙ by Zhize Li, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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EF21: A New, Simpler, Theoretically Better, and Practically Faster Error Feedback

Error feedback (EF), also known as error compensation, is an immensely p...
06/09/2021 ∙ by Peter Richtarik, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Lower Bounds and Optimal Algorithms for Smooth and Strongly Convex Decentralized Optimization Over Time-Varying Networks

We consider the task of minimizing the sum of smooth and strongly convex...
06/08/2021 ∙ by Dmitry Kovalev, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Smoothness-Aware Quantization Techniques

Distributed machine learning has become an indispensable tool for traini...
06/07/2021 ∙ by Bokun Wang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Complexity Analysis of Stein Variational Gradient Descent Under Talagrand's Inequality T1

We study the complexity of Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD), wh...
06/06/2021 ∙ by Adil Salim, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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MURANA: A Generic Framework for Stochastic Variance-Reduced Optimization

We propose a generic variance-reduced algorithm, which we call MUltiple ...
06/06/2021 ∙ by Laurent Condat, et al. ∙ 12 ∙ share

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FedNL: Making Newton-Type Methods Applicable to Federated Learning

Inspired by recent work of Islamov et al (2021), we propose a family of ...
06/05/2021 ∙ by Mher Safaryan, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Random Reshuffling with Variance Reduction: New Analysis and Better Rates

Virtually all state-of-the-art methods for training supervised machine l...
04/19/2021 ∙ by Grigory Malinovsky, et al. ∙ 11 ∙ share

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ZeroSARAH: Efficient Nonconvex Finite-Sum Optimization with Zero Full Gradient Computation

We propose ZeroSARAH – a novel variant of the variance-reduced method SA...
03/02/2021 ∙ by Zhize Li, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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Hyperparameter Transfer Learning with Adaptive Complexity

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sample efficient approach to automatical...
02/25/2021 ∙ by Samuel Horvath, et al. ∙ 18 ∙ share

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AI-SARAH: Adaptive and Implicit Stochastic Recursive Gradient Methods

We present an adaptive stochastic variance reduced method with an implic...
02/19/2021 ∙ by Zheng Shi, et al. ∙ 12 ∙ share

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ADOM: Accelerated Decentralized Optimization Method for Time-Varying Networks

We propose ADOM - an accelerated method for smooth and strongly convex d...
02/18/2021 ∙ by Dmitry Kovalev, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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IntSGD: Floatless Compression of Stochastic Gradients

We propose a family of lossy integer compressions for Stochastic Gradien...
02/16/2021 ∙ by Konstantin Mishchenko, et al. ∙ 17 ∙ share

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MARINA: Faster Non-Convex Distributed Learning with Compression

We develop and analyze MARINA: a new communication efficient method for ...
02/15/2021 ∙ by Eduard Gorbunov, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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Smoothness Matrices Beat Smoothness Constants: Better Communication Compression Techniques for Distributed Optimization

Large scale distributed optimization has become the default tool for the...
02/14/2021 ∙ by Mher Safaryan, et al. ∙ 16 ∙ share

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Distributed Second Order Methods with Fast Rates and Compressed Communication

We develop several new communication-efficient second-order methods for ...
02/14/2021 ∙ by Rustem Islamov, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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Proximal and Federated Random Reshuffling

Random Reshuffling (RR), also known as Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)...
02/12/2021 ∙ by Konstantin Mishchenko, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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A Linearly Convergent Algorithm for Decentralized Optimization: Sending Less Bits for Free!

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine ...
11/03/2020 ∙ by Dmitry Kovalev, et al. ∙ 22 ∙ share

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Local SGD: Unified Theory and New Efficient Methods

We present a unified framework for analyzing local SGD methods in the co...
11/03/2020 ∙ by Eduard Gorbunov, et al. ∙ 62 ∙ share

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Optimal Client Sampling for Federated Learning

It is well understood that client-master communication can be a primary ...
10/26/2020 ∙ by Wenlin Chen, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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Linearly Converging Error Compensated SGD

In this paper, we propose a unified analysis of variants of distributed ...
10/23/2020 ∙ by Eduard Gorbunov, et al. ∙ 1 ∙ share

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Optimal Gradient Compression for Distributed and Federated Learning

Communicating information, like gradient vectors, between computing node...
10/07/2020 ∙ by Alyazeed Albasyoni, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Lower Bounds and Optimal Algorithms for Personalized Federated Learning

In this work, we consider the optimization formulation of personalized f...
10/05/2020 ∙ by Filip Hanzely, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Distributed Proximal Splitting Algorithms with Rates and Acceleration

We analyze several generic proximal splitting algorithms well suited for...
10/02/2020 ∙ by Laurent Condat, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Variance-Reduced Methods for Machine Learning

Stochastic optimization lies at the heart of machine learning, and its c...
10/02/2020 ∙ by Robert M. Gower, et al. ∙ 20 ∙ share

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PAGE: A Simple and Optimal Probabilistic Gradient Estimator for Nonconvex Optimization

In this paper, we propose a novel stochastic gradient estimator—ProbAbil...
08/25/2020 ∙ by Zhize Li, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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Optimal and Practical Algorithms for Smooth and Strongly Convex Decentralized Optimization

We consider the task of decentralized minimization of the sum of smooth ...
06/21/2020 ∙ by Dmitry Kovalev, et al. ∙ 19 ∙ share

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Unified Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Methods for Composite Convex and Smooth Optimization

We present a unified theorem for the convergence analysis of stochastic ...
06/20/2020 ∙ by Ahmed Khaled, et al. ∙ 30 ∙ share

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A Better Alternative to Error Feedback for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning

Modern large-scale machine learning applications require stochastic opti...
06/19/2020 ∙ by Samuel Horvath, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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Primal Dual Interpretation of the Proximal Stochastic Gradient Langevin Algorithm

We consider the task of sampling with respect to a log concave probabili...
06/16/2020 ∙ by Adil Salim, et al. ∙ 16 ∙ share

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A Unified Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Federated Optimization

In this paper, we study the performance of a large family of SGD variant...
06/12/2020 ∙ by Zhize Li, et al. ∙ 18 ∙ share

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Random Reshuffling: Simple Analysis with Vast Improvements

Random Reshuffling (RR) is an algorithm for minimizing finite-sum functi...
06/10/2020 ∙ by Konstantin Mishchenko, et al. ∙ 17 ∙ share

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Adaptive Learning of the Optimal Mini-Batch Size of SGD

Recent advances in the theoretical understandingof SGD (Qian et al., 201...
05/03/2020 ∙ by Motasem Alfarra, et al. ∙ 22 ∙ share

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On the Convergence Analysis of Asynchronous SGD for Solving Consistent Linear Systems

In the realm of big data and machine learning, data-parallel, distribute...
04/05/2020 ∙ by Atal Narayan Sahu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Dualize, Split, Randomize: Fast Nonsmooth Optimization Algorithms

We introduce a new primal-dual algorithm for minimizing the sum of three...
04/03/2020 ∙ by Adil Salim, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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From Local SGD to Local Fixed Point Methods for Federated Learning

Most algorithms for solving optimization problems or finding saddle poin...
04/03/2020 ∙ by Grigory Malinovsky, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On Biased Compression for Distributed Learning

In the last few years, various communication compression techniques have...
02/27/2020 ∙ by Aleksandr Beznosikov, et al. ∙ 15 ∙ share

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Acceleration for Compressed Gradient Descent in Distributed and Federated Optimization

Due to the high communication cost in distributed and federated learning...
02/26/2020 ∙ by Zhize Li, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Fast Linear Convergence of Randomized BFGS

Since the late 1950's when quasi-Newton methods first appeared, they hav...
02/26/2020 ∙ by Dmitry Kovalev, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Stochastic Subspace Cubic Newton Method

In this paper, we propose a new randomized second-order optimization alg...
02/21/2020 ∙ by Filip Hanzely, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Uncertainty Principle for Communication Compression in Distributed and Federated Learning and the Search for an Optimal Compressor

In order to mitigate the high communication cost in distributed and fede...
02/20/2020 ∙ by Mher Safaryan, et al. ∙ 13 ∙ share

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Adaptivity of Stochastic Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Optimization

Adaptivity is an important yet under-studied property in modern optimiza...
02/13/2020 ∙ by Samuel Horvath, et al. ∙ 4 ∙ share

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Variance Reduced Coordinate Descent with Acceleration: New Method With a Surprising Application to Finite-Sum Problems

We propose an accelerated version of stochastic variance reduced coordin...
02/11/2020 ∙ by Filip Hanzely, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Federated Learning of a Mixture of Global and Local Models

We propose a new optimization formulation for training federated learnin...
02/10/2020 ∙ by Filip Hanzely, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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Better Theory for SGD in the Nonconvex World

Large-scale nonconvex optimization problems are ubiquitous in modern mac...
02/09/2020 ∙ by Ahmed Khaled, et al. ∙ 26 ∙ share

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Distributed Fixed Point Methods with Compressed Iterates

We propose basic and natural assumptions under which iterative optimizat...
12/20/2019 ∙ by Sélim Chraibi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Stochastic Newton and Cubic Newton Methods with Simple Local Linear-Quadratic Rates

We present two new remarkably simple stochastic second-order methods for...
12/03/2019 ∙ by Dmitry Kovalev, et al. ∙ 13 ∙ share

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Better Communication Complexity for Local SGD

We revisit the local Stochastic Gradient Descent (local SGD) method and ...
09/10/2019 ∙ by Ahmed Khaled, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Gradient Descent with Compressed Iterates

We propose and analyze a new type of stochastic first order method: grad...
09/10/2019 ∙ by Ahmed Khaled, et al. ∙ 28 ∙ share

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First Analysis of Local GD on Heterogeneous Data

We provide the first convergence analysis of local gradient descent for ...
09/10/2019 ∙ by Ahmed Khaled, et al. ∙ 32 ∙ share

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