Revisiting Decentralized ProxSkip: Achieving Linear Speedup

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07983v2
• Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:21:58 GMT
• Title: Revisiting Decentralized ProxSkip: Achieving Linear Speedup
• Authors: Luyao Guo, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Kun Yuan, Laurent Condat, Jinde Cao,
• Abstract summary: Existing analyses of ProxSkipilon are limited convex setting and do not achieve the strongly linear speed of ProxSkipilon. This paper shows that ProxSkipilon can achieve linear speed up and can reduce communication overhead proportional to the probability of communication.
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• Abstract: The ProxSkip algorithm for decentralized and federated learning is gaining increasing attention due to its proven benefits in accelerating communication complexity while maintaining robustness against data heterogeneity. However, existing analyses of ProxSkip are limited to the strongly convex setting and do not achieve linear speedup, where convergence performance increases linearly with respect to the number of nodes. So far, questions remain open about how ProxSkip behaves in the non-convex setting and whether linear speedup is achievable. In this paper, we revisit decentralized ProxSkip and address both questions. We demonstrate that the leading communication complexity of ProxSkip is $\mathcal{O}\left(\frac{p\sigma^2}{n\epsilon^2}\right)$ for non-convex and convex settings, and $\mathcal{O}\left(\frac{p\sigma^2}{n\epsilon}\right)$ for the strongly convex setting, where $n$ represents the number of nodes, $p$ denotes the probability of communication, $\sigma^2$ signifies the level of stochastic noise, and $\epsilon$ denotes the desired accuracy level. This result illustrates that ProxSkip achieves linear speedup and can asymptotically reduce communication overhead proportional to the probability of communication. Additionally, for the strongly convex setting, we further prove that ProxSkip can achieve linear speedup with network-independent stepsizes.

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