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Ananda Theertha Suresh

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Federated learning: Strategies for improving communication efficiency

…, HB McMahan, FX Yu, P Richtárik, AT Suresh… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Federated Learning is a machine learning setting where the goal is to train a high-quality
centralized model while training data remains distributed over a large number of clients each …

Advances and open problems in federated learning

…, W Song, SU Stich, Z Sun, AT Suresh… - … and trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many clients (eg, mobile devices
or whole organizations) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central …

Distributed mean estimation with limited communication

AT Suresh, XY Felix, S Kumar… - … on machine learning, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
Motivated by the need for distributed learning and optimization algorithms with low
communication cost, we study communication efficient algorithms for distributed mean estimation. …

Fedboost: A communication-efficient algorithm for federated learning

J Hamer, M Mohri, AT Suresh - International Conference on …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Communication cost is often a bottleneck in federated learning and other client-based
distributed learning scenarios. To overcome this, several gradient compression and model …

Scaffold: Stochastic controlled averaging for federated learning

…, M Mohri, S Reddi, S Stich, AT Suresh - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Federated learning is a key scenario in modern large-scale machine learning where the
data remains distributed over a large number of clients and the task is to learn a centralized …

Agnostic federated learning

M Mohri, G Sivek, AT Suresh - International conference on …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
A key learning scenario in large-scale applications is that of federated learning, where a
centralized model is trained based on data originating from a large number of clients. We argue …

A field guide to federated optimization

…, V Smith, M Soltanolkotabi, W Song, AT Suresh… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Federated learning and analytics are a distributed approach for collaboratively learning
models (or statistics) from decentralized data, motivated by and designed for privacy protection. …

Three approaches for personalization with applications to federated learning

Y Mansour, M Mohri, J Ro, AT Suresh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.10619, 2020 - arxiv.org
The standard objective in machine learning is to train a single model for all users. However,
in many learning scenarios, such as cloud computing and federated learning, it is possible …

Can you really backdoor federated learning?

Z Sun, P Kairouz, AT Suresh, HB McMahan - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The decentralized nature of federated learning makes detecting and defending against
adversarial attacks a challenging task. This paper focuses on backdoor attacks in the federated …

cpSGD: Communication-efficient and differentially-private distributed SGD

N Agarwal, AT Suresh, FXX Yu… - Advances in Neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Distributed stochastic gradient descent is an important subroutine in distributed learning. A
setting of particular interest is when the clients are mobile devices, where two important …