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Poster

Refined Analysis of Constant Step Size Federated Averaging and Federated Richardson-Romberg Extrapolation

Maxim Rakhuba · Eric Moulines


Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel analysis of FedAvg with constant step size, relying on the Markov property of the underlying process. We demonstrate that the global iterates of the algorithm converge to a stationary distribution and analyze its resulting bias and variance relative to the problem's solution.We provide a first-order bias expansion in both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings. Interestingly, this bias decomposes into two distinct components: one that depends solely on stochastic gradient noise and another on client heterogeneity.Finally, we introduce a new algorithm based on the Richardson-Romberg extrapolation technique to mitigate this bias.

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