ML: Distributed

Machine-learning ideas tagged Distributed in the ML taxonomy of the Math2NN corpus.

✗ Mechanism failed 2026

Two-level local/coarse GNN training

Partition a large graph into induced subgraphs and perform most parameter updates using only local subgraphs, interleaving them with inexpensive global updates on a randomly subsampled coarse graph. The coarse correction preserves information about cross-partition dependencies while reducing full-graph message passing and communication cost.

Useful8/10
Difficulty5/10
Novelty6/10
Paper: Two-level domain-decomposition AdaGrad method for scalable training of graph neural networks arXiv:2608.22575
Unverified 2026

Noise-Aware Soft ECOC Decoding

Treat the binary outputs of the hyperplane head as a noisy channel and decode with reliability-weighted likelihood rather than unweighted Hamming distance. Estimate each bit's flip probability on validation data and give unreliable hyperplanes less influence, while retaining the logarithmic code-length scaling.

Useful6/10
Difficulty3/10
Novelty6/10
Paper: Fundamental limits of distributed multiclass classification from simple binary decisions arXiv:2607.19334