Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, and Seminars
  4. Get More for Less in Decentralized Learning Systems
 
conference paper

Get More for Less in Decentralized Learning Systems

Dhasade, Akash  
•
Kermarrec, Anne-Marie  
•
Pires, Rafael  
Show more
2023
2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
ICDCS 2023 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Decentralized learning (DL) systems have been gaining popularity because they avoid raw data sharing by communicating only model parameters, hence preserving data confidentiality. However, the large size of deep neural networks poses a significant challenge for decentralized training, since each node needs to exchange gigabytes of data, overloading the network. In this paper, we address this challenge with JWINS, a communication-efficient and fully decentralized learning system that shares only a subset of parameters through sparsification. JWINS uses wavelet transform to limit the information loss due to sparsification and a randomized communication cut-off that reduces communication usage without damaging the performance of trained models. We demonstrate empirically with 96 DL nodes on non-IID datasets that JWINS can achieve similar accuracies to full-sharing DL while sending up to 64% fewer bytes. Additionally, on low communication budgets, JWINS outperforms the state-of-the-art communication-efficient DL algorithm CHOCO-SGD by up to 4x in terms of network savings and time.

  • Files
  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICDCS57875.2023.00067
Author(s)
Dhasade, Akash  
Kermarrec, Anne-Marie  
Pires, Rafael  
Sharma, Rishi  
Vujasinovic, Milos  
Wigger, Jeffrey
Date Issued

2023

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
ISBN of the book

979-8-3503-3986-4

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
SACS  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
ICDCS 2023 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Hong Kong, China

July 18-21, 2023

RelationURL/DOI

Cites

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/301989

Cites

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/292636
Available on Infoscience
June 8, 2023
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/198188
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés