Contractive error feedback for gradient compression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08538v1
• Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:54:21 GMT
• Title: Contractive error feedback for gradient compression
• Authors: Bingcong Li, Shuai Zheng, Parameswaran Raman, Anshumali Shrivastava and Georgios B. Giannakis
• Abstract summary: We propose a communication efficient method called contractive error feedback (ConEF) As opposed to SGD with error-feedback (EFSGD) that inefficiently manages memory, ConEF obtains the sweet spot of convergence and memory usage. We empirically validate ConEF on various learning tasks that include image classification, language modeling, and machine translation.
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• Abstract: On-device memory concerns in distributed deep learning have become severe due to (i) the growth of model size in multi-GPU training, and (ii) the wide adoption of deep neural networks for federated learning on IoT devices which have limited storage. In such settings, communication efficient optimization methods are attractive alternatives, however they still struggle with memory issues. To tackle these challenges, we propose an communication efficient method called contractive error feedback (ConEF). As opposed to SGD with error-feedback (EFSGD) that inefficiently manages memory, ConEF obtains the sweet spot of convergence and memory usage, and achieves communication efficiency by leveraging biased and all-reducable gradient compression. We empirically validate ConEF on various learning tasks that include image classification, language modeling, and machine translation and observe that ConEF saves 80\% - 90\% of the extra memory in EFSGD with almost no loss on test performance, while also achieving 1.3x - 5x speedup of SGD. Through our work, we also demonstrate the feasibility and convergence of ConEF to clear up the theoretical barrier of integrating ConEF to popular memory efficient frameworks such as ZeRO-3.

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