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Main Authors: Belenguer, Aitor, Pascual, Jose A., Navaridas, Javier
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10463
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author Belenguer, Aitor
Pascual, Jose A.
Navaridas, Javier
author_facet Belenguer, Aitor
Pascual, Jose A.
Navaridas, Javier
contents Fully decentralized learning algorithms are still in an early stage of development. Creating modular Gossip Learning strategies is not trivial due to convergence challenges and Byzantine faults intrinsic in systems of decentralized nature. Our contribution provides a novel means to simulate custom Gossip Learning systems by leveraging the state-of-the-art Flower Framework. Specifically, we introduce GLow, which will allow researchers to train and assess scalability and convergence of devices, across custom network topologies, before making a physical deployment. The Flower Framework is selected for being a simulation featured library with a very active community on Federated Learning research. However, Flower exclusively includes vanilla Federated Learning strategies and, thus, is not originally designed to perform simulations without a centralized authority. GLow is presented to fill this gap and make simulation of Gossip Learning systems possible. Results achieved by GLow in the MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets, show accuracies over 0.98 and 0.75 respectively. More importantly, GLow performs similarly in terms of accuracy and convergence to its analogous Centralized and Federated approaches in all designed experiments.
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spellingShingle GLow -- A Novel, Flower-Based Simulated Gossip Learning Strategy
Belenguer, Aitor
Pascual, Jose A.
Navaridas, Javier
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Fully decentralized learning algorithms are still in an early stage of development. Creating modular Gossip Learning strategies is not trivial due to convergence challenges and Byzantine faults intrinsic in systems of decentralized nature. Our contribution provides a novel means to simulate custom Gossip Learning systems by leveraging the state-of-the-art Flower Framework. Specifically, we introduce GLow, which will allow researchers to train and assess scalability and convergence of devices, across custom network topologies, before making a physical deployment. The Flower Framework is selected for being a simulation featured library with a very active community on Federated Learning research. However, Flower exclusively includes vanilla Federated Learning strategies and, thus, is not originally designed to perform simulations without a centralized authority. GLow is presented to fill this gap and make simulation of Gossip Learning systems possible. Results achieved by GLow in the MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets, show accuracies over 0.98 and 0.75 respectively. More importantly, GLow performs similarly in terms of accuracy and convergence to its analogous Centralized and Federated approaches in all designed experiments.
title GLow -- A Novel, Flower-Based Simulated Gossip Learning Strategy
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10463