Author(s)

Huada Zhu¹, Wu Ai^1,2*

¹School of Mathematics and Statistics, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China.
²Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Statistics, Guilin, China.

In the contemporary era, the proliferation of information technology has led to an unprecedented surge in data generation, with this data being dispersed across a multitude of mobile devices. Facing these situations and the training of deep learning model that needs great computing power support, the distributed algorithm that can carry out multi-party joint modeling has attracted everyone’s attention. The distributed training mode relieves the huge pressure of centralized model on computer computing power and communication. However, most distributed algorithms currently work in a master-slave mode, often including a central server for coordination, which to some extent will cause communication pressure, data leakage, privacy violations and other issues. To solve these problems, a decentralized fully distributed algorithm based on deep random weight neural network is proposed. The algorithm decomposes the original objective function into several sub-problems under consistency constraints, combines the decentralized average consensus (DAC) and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), and achieves the goal of joint modeling and training through local calculation and communication of each node. Finally, we compare the proposed decentralized algorithm with several centralized deep neural networks with random weights, and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Distributed Optimization, Deep Neural Network, Random Vector Functional-Link (RVFL) Network, Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)

Zhu, H. and Ai, W. (2024) Fully Distributed Learning for Deep Random Vector Functional-Link Networks. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 12, 1247-1262. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2024.124077.