Communication-Efficient Stochastic Zeroth-Order Optimization for Federated Learning

1 code implementation • 24 Jan 2022 • Wenzhi Fang, Ziyi Yu, Yuning Jiang, Yuanming Shi, Colin N. Jones, Yong Zhou

Under non-convex settings, we derive the convergence performance of the FedZO algorithm on non-independent and identically distributed data and characterize the impact of the numbers of local iterates and participating edge devices on the convergence.

Federated Learning Second-order methods