{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/local-adaalter-communication-efficient","title":"Local AdaAlter: Communication-Efficient Stochastic Gradient Descent with Adaptive Learning Rates","arxiv_id":"1911.09030","date":"2019-11-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Cong Xie","Oluwasanmi Koyejo","Indranil Gupta","Haibin Lin"],"abstract":"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.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09030v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.09030v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"local-adaalter-communication-efficient","repo_url":"https://github.com/xcgoner/AISTATS2020-AdaAlter-GluonNLP","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"mxnet","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"Apache-2.0"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[{"method_slug":"sgd","method_name":"SGD"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1911.09030","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}