Collaborative deep learning across multiple data centers

Haibo Mi

doi:10.1007/s11432-019-2705-2

Collaborative deep learning across multiple data centers

2020-07-14

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DOI：10.1007/s11432-019-2705-2

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Valuable training data is often owned by independent organizations and located in multiple data centers. Most deep learning approaches require to centralize the multi-datacenter data for performance purpose. In practice, however, it is often infeasible to transfer all data of different organizations to a centralized data center owing to the constraints of privacy regulations. It is very challenging to conduct the geo-distributed deep learning among data centers without the privacy leaks. Model averaging is a conventional choice for data parallelized training and can reduce the risk of privacy leaks, but its ineffectiveness is claimed by previous studies as deep neural networks are often non-convex. In this paper, we argue that model averaging can be effective in the decentralized environment by using two strategies, namely, the cyclical learning rate (CLR) and the increased number of epochs for local model training. With the two strategies, we show that model averaging can provide competitive performance in the decentralized mode compared to the data-centralized one. In a practical environment with multiple data centers, we conduct extensive experiments using state-of-the-art deep network architectures on different types of data. Results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.

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collaborative learning

multiple datacenters

distributed machine learning

Collaborative deep learning across multiple data centers

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