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Training deep neural networks on big datasets remains a computational challenge. It can take hundreds of hours to perform and requires distributed computing systems to accelerate. Common distributed data-parallel approaches share a single model across multiple workers, train on different batches, aggregate gradients, and redistribute the new model. In this work, we propose NoSync, a particle swarm optimization inspired alternative where each worker trains a separate model, and applies pressure forcing models to converge. NoSync explores a greater portion of the parameter space and provides resilience to overfitting. It consistently offers higher accuracy compared to single workers, offers a linear speedup for smaller clusters, and is orthogonal to existing data-parallel approaches.
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Isakov, M., Kinsy, M.A. (2018). NoSync: Particle Swarm Inspired Distributed DNN Training. In: Kůrková, V., Manolopoulos, Y., Hammer, B., Iliadis, L., Maglogiannis, I. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2018. ICANN 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01421-6_58
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