2026
Factored Gossip DiLoCo: Reducing Blocking Communication within DiLoCo
Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage, Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan, Sameera Ramasinghe, Hadi Mohaghegh Dolatabadi, Shamane Siriwardhana, Gil Avraham +4
ICML 2026poster
To make large-scale distributed training practical outside high-bandwidth datacenters, we must reduce blocking, high-volume synchronization. While DiLoCo communicates infrequently, its outer synchronization remains bandwidth-heavy and brittle to stragglers and transient failures. We relax exact sync…