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A Unified Theory of Decentralized SGD with Changing Topology and Local Updates

Koloskova, Anastasiia  
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Loizou, Nicolas
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Boreiri, Sadra
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2020
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning
37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020)

Decentralized stochastic optimization methods have gained a lot of attention recently, mainly because of their cheap per iteration cost, data locality, and their communication-efficiency. In this paper we introduce a unified convergence analysis that covers a large variety of decentralized SGD methods which so far have required different intuitions, have different applications, and which have been developed separately in various communities. Our algorithmic framework covers local SGD updates and synchronous and pairwise gossip updates on adaptive network topology. We derive universal convergence rates for smooth (convex and non-convex) problems and the rates interpolate between the heterogeneous (non-identically distributed data) and iid-data settings, recovering linear convergence rates in many special cases, for instance for over-parametrized models. Our proofs rely on weak assumptions (typically improving over prior work in several aspects) and recover (and improve) the best known complexity results for a host of important scenarios, such as for instance coorperative SGD and federated averaging (local SGD).

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conference paper
Web of Science ID

WOS:000683178505047

Author(s)
Koloskova, Anastasiia  
Loizou, Nicolas
Boreiri, Sadra
Jaggi, Martin  
Stich, Sebastian Urban  
Date Issued

2020

Publisher

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH

Publisher place

San Diego

Published in
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning
Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

Volume

119

Subjects

ml-ai

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distributed optimization

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algorithm

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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MLO  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020)

Virtual

July 13-18, 2020

Available on Infoscience
June 22, 2021
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