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Local AdaAlter: Communication-Efficient Stochastic Gradient Descent with Adaptive Learning Rates

20 Nov 2019arXiv:1911.09030archive 2025-07-28

Cong Xie, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Indranil Gupta, Haibin Lin

When scaling distributed training, the communication overhead is often the bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a novel SGD variant with reduced communication and adaptive learning rates. We prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm for smooth but non-convex problems. Empirical results show that the proposed algorithm significantly reduces the communication overhead, which, in turn, reduces the training time by up to 30% for the 1B word dataset.

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