Title
EDEN: Communication-Efficient and Robust Distributed Mean Estimation for Federated Learning.
Abstract
Distributed Mean Estimation (DME) is a central building block in federated learning, where clients send local gradients to a parameter server for averaging and updating the model. Due to communication constraints, clients often use lossy compression techniques to compress the gradients, resulting in estimation inaccuracies. DME is more challenging when clients have diverse network conditions, such as constrained communication budgets and packet losses. In such settings, DME techniques often incur a significant increase in the estimation error leading to degraded learning performance. In this work, we propose a robust DME technique named EDEN that naturally handles heterogeneous communication budgets and packet losses. We derive appealing theoretical guarantees for EDEN and evaluate it empirically. Our results demonstrate that EDEN consistently improves over state-of-the-art DME techniques.
Year
Venue
DocType
2022
International Conference on Machine Learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shay Vargaftik100.34
Ran Ben-Basat210519.20
Amit Portnoy300.68
Gal Mendelson4173.36
Yaniv Ben Itzhak500.34
Michael Mitzenmacher67386730.89