AdaGossip: Adaptive Consensus Step-size for Decentralized Deep Learning with Communication Compression

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Main Authors: Aketi, Sai Aparna, Hashemi, Abolfazl, Roy, Kaushik
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Published: 2024
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author Aketi, Sai Aparna
Hashemi, Abolfazl
Roy, Kaushik
author_facet Aketi, Sai Aparna
Hashemi, Abolfazl
Roy, Kaushik
contents Decentralized learning is crucial in supporting on-device learning over large distributed datasets, eliminating the need for a central server. However, the communication overhead remains a major bottleneck for the practical realization of such decentralized setups. To tackle this issue, several algorithms for decentralized training with compressed communication have been proposed in the literature. Most of these algorithms introduce an additional hyper-parameter referred to as consensus step-size which is tuned based on the compression ratio at the beginning of the training. In this work, we propose AdaGossip, a novel technique that adaptively adjusts the consensus step-size based on the compressed model differences between neighboring agents. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method through an exhaustive set of experiments on various Computer Vision datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Fashion MNIST, Imagenette, and ImageNet), model architectures, and network topologies. Our experiments show that the proposed method achieves superior performance ($0-2\%$ improvement in test accuracy) compared to the current state-of-the-art method for decentralized learning with communication compression.
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spellingShingle AdaGossip: Adaptive Consensus Step-size for Decentralized Deep Learning with Communication Compression
Aketi, Sai Aparna
Hashemi, Abolfazl
Roy, Kaushik
Machine Learning
Decentralized learning is crucial in supporting on-device learning over large distributed datasets, eliminating the need for a central server. However, the communication overhead remains a major bottleneck for the practical realization of such decentralized setups. To tackle this issue, several algorithms for decentralized training with compressed communication have been proposed in the literature. Most of these algorithms introduce an additional hyper-parameter referred to as consensus step-size which is tuned based on the compression ratio at the beginning of the training. In this work, we propose AdaGossip, a novel technique that adaptively adjusts the consensus step-size based on the compressed model differences between neighboring agents. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method through an exhaustive set of experiments on various Computer Vision datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Fashion MNIST, Imagenette, and ImageNet), model architectures, and network topologies. Our experiments show that the proposed method achieves superior performance ($0-2\%$ improvement in test accuracy) compared to the current state-of-the-art method for decentralized learning with communication compression.
title AdaGossip: Adaptive Consensus Step-size for Decentralized Deep Learning with Communication Compression
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05919