dSTAR: Straggler Tolerant and Byzantine Resilient Distributed SGD
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arXiv:2412.07151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed model training needs to be adapted to challenges such as the straggler effect and Byzantine attacks. When coordinating the training process with multiple computing nodes, ensuring timely and reliable gradient aggregation amidst network and system malfunctions is essential. To tackle these issues, we propose \textit{dSTAR}, a lightweight and efficient approach for distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) that enhances robustness and convergence. \textit{dSTAR} selectively aggregates gradients by collecting updates from the first
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2412.07151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed model training needs to be adapted to challenges such as the straggler effect and Byzantine attacks.
- When coordinating the training process with multiple computing nodes, ensuring timely and reliable gradient aggregation amidst network and system malfunctions is essential.
- To tackle these issues, we propose \textit{dSTAR}, a lightweight and efficient approach for distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) that enhances robustness and convergence.
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