Summary of Ternaryvote: Differentially Private, Communication Efficient, and Byzantine Resilient Distributed Optimization on Heterogeneous Data, by Richeng Jin et al.
TernaryVote: Differentially Private, Communication Efficient, and Byzantine Resilient Distributed Optimization on Heterogeneous Data
by Richeng Jin, Yujie Gu, Kai Yue, Xiaofan He, Zhaoyang Zhang, Huaiyu Dai
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper tackles the challenging problem of distributed training of deep neural networks while ensuring privacy preservation, communication efficiency, and robustness to faults and adversarial behaviors. The authors propose TernaryVote, a novel approach that combines ternary compression with majority vote mechanisms to achieve these goals simultaneously. Theoretical guarantees are provided for differential privacy (DP) and Byzantine resilience, demonstrating improvements over existing methods like StoSign. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of TernaryVote in ensuring robustness while maintaining comparable convergence rates. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine trying to train a super-powerful AI model with many computers working together. But what if these computers are connected through the internet and can be tricked or even hacked? That’s where this paper comes in! The authors want to create an algorithm that not only makes sure the AI is strong but also keeps its secrets safe from prying eyes, uses less communication resources, and can withstand attacks from bad actors. They propose a new approach called TernaryVote, which does all these things at once! They show that it works better than other methods in some cases and provides robustness against hackers. |
