Multi-agent reinforcement learning: A selective overview of theories and algorithms

K Zhang, Z Yang, T Başar - Handbook of reinforcement learning and …, 2021 - Springer
Recent years have witnessed significant advances in reinforcement learning (RL), which
has registered tremendous success in solving various sequential decision-making problems …

Demystifying parallel and distributed deep learning: An in-depth concurrency analysis

T Ben-Nun, T Hoefler - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming an important tool in modern computing
applications. Accelerating their training is a major challenge and techniques range from …

Federated learning with differential privacy: Algorithms and performance analysis

K Wei, J Li, M Ding, C Ma, HH Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated learning (FL), as a type of distributed machine learning, is capable of significantly
preserving clients' private data from being exposed to adversaries. Nevertheless, private …

Adaptive federated learning in resource constrained edge computing systems

S Wang, T Tuor, T Salonidis, KK Leung… - IEEE journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging technologies and applications including Internet of Things, social networking, and
crowd-sourcing generate large amounts of data at the network edge. Machine learning …

Fully decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning with networked agents

K Zhang, Z Yang, H Liu, T Zhang… - … conference on machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider the fully decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problem,
where the agents are connected via a time-varying and possibly sparse communication …

Federated optimization: Distributed machine learning for on-device intelligence

J Konečný, HB McMahan, D Ramage… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
We introduce a new and increasingly relevant setting for distributed optimization in machine
learning, where the data defining the optimization are unevenly distributed over an …

Can decentralized algorithms outperform centralized algorithms? a case study for decentralized parallel stochastic gradient descent

X Lian, C Zhang, H Zhang, CJ Hsieh… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Most distributed machine learning systems nowadays, including TensorFlow and CNTK, are
built in a centralized fashion. One bottleneck of centralized algorithms lies on high …