no code implementations • 27 May 2019 • Samuel Horvath, Chen-Yu Ho, Ludovit Horvath, Atal Narayan Sahu, Marco Canini, Peter Richtarik
Our technique is applied individually to all entries of the to-be-compressed update vector and works by randomized rounding to the nearest (negative or positive) power of two, which can be computed in a "natural" way by ignoring the mantissa.