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Accelerated Federated Learning with Decoupled Adaptive Optimization
Jiayin Jin · Jiaxiang Ren · Yang Zhou · Lingjuan Lyu · Ji Liu · Dejing Dou

Wed Jul 20 02:30 PM -- 02:35 PM (PDT) @ Room 309
in Deep Learning/Optimization »

The federated learning (FL) framework enables edge clients to collaboratively learn a shared inference model while keeping privacy of training data on clients. Recently, many heuristics efforts have been made to generalize centralized adaptive optimization methods, such as SGDM, Adam, AdaGrad, etc., to federated settings for improving convergence and accuracy. However, there is still a paucity of theoretical principles on where to and how to design and utilize adaptive optimization methods in federated settings. This work aims to develop novel adaptive optimization methods for FL from the perspective of dynamics of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). First, an analytic framework is established to build a connection between federated optimization methods and decompositions of ODEs of corresponding centralized optimizers. Second, based on this analytic framework, a momentum decoupling adaptive optimization method, FedDA, is developed to fully utilize the global momentum on each local iteration and accelerate the training convergence. Last but not least, full batch gradients are utilized to mimic centralized optimization in the end of the training process to ensure the convergence and overcome the possible inconsistency caused by adaptive optimization methods.

Keywords: OPT: Large Scale, Parallel and Distributed

Author Information

Jiayin Jin (Auburn University)
Jiaxiang Ren (Auburn University)
Yang Zhou (Auburn University)
Lingjuan Lyu (Sony AI)
Ji Liu (Baidu research)
Dejing Dou (Baidu)

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