Distributed Stochastic Momentum Tracking with Local Updates: Achieving Optimal Communication and Iteration Complexities

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Autori principali: Huang, Kun, Pu, Shi
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author Huang, Kun
Pu, Shi
author_facet Huang, Kun
Pu, Shi
contents We propose Local Momentum Tracking (LMT), a novel distributed stochastic gradient method for solving distributed optimization problems over networks. To reduce communication overhead, LMT enables each agent to perform multiple local updates between consecutive communication rounds. Specifically, LMT integrates local updates with the momentum tracking strategy and the Loopless Chebyshev Acceleration (LCA) technique. We demonstrate that LMT achieves linear speedup with respect to the number of local updates as well as the number of agents for minimizing smooth objective functions with and without the Polyak-Łojasiewicz (PL) condition. Notably, with sufficiently many local updates $Q\geq Q^*$, LMT attains the optimal communication complexity. For a moderate number of local updates $Q\in[1,Q^*]$, LMT achieves the optimal iteration complexity. To our knowledge, LMT is the first distributed stochastic gradient method with local updates that enjoys such properties.
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spellingShingle Distributed Stochastic Momentum Tracking with Local Updates: Achieving Optimal Communication and Iteration Complexities
Huang, Kun
Pu, Shi
Optimization and Control
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
We propose Local Momentum Tracking (LMT), a novel distributed stochastic gradient method for solving distributed optimization problems over networks. To reduce communication overhead, LMT enables each agent to perform multiple local updates between consecutive communication rounds. Specifically, LMT integrates local updates with the momentum tracking strategy and the Loopless Chebyshev Acceleration (LCA) technique. We demonstrate that LMT achieves linear speedup with respect to the number of local updates as well as the number of agents for minimizing smooth objective functions with and without the Polyak-Łojasiewicz (PL) condition. Notably, with sufficiently many local updates $Q\geq Q^*$, LMT attains the optimal communication complexity. For a moderate number of local updates $Q\in[1,Q^*]$, LMT achieves the optimal iteration complexity. To our knowledge, LMT is the first distributed stochastic gradient method with local updates that enjoys such properties.
title Distributed Stochastic Momentum Tracking with Local Updates: Achieving Optimal Communication and Iteration Complexities
topic Optimization and Control
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24155