Publications by Hadrien Hendrikx

Asynchronous Speedup in Decentralized Optimization

In decentralized optimization, nodes of a communication network each possess a local objective function, and communicate using gossip-based methods in order to minimize the average of these per-node functions. While synchronous algorithms are heavily impac ...

2025

Beyond Spectral Gap: The Role of the Topology in Decentralized Learning

Martin Jaggi, Thijs Vogels, Hadrien Hendrikx

In data-parallel optimization of machine learning models, workers collaborate to improve their estimates of the model: more accurate gradients allow them to use larger learning rates and optimize faster. In the decentralized setting, in which workers commu ...

Microtome Publishing2023

Who Started This Rumor? Quantifying the Natural Differential Privacy of Gossip Protocols

Rachid Guerraoui, Hadrien Hendrikx

Gossip protocols (also called rumor spreading or epidemic protocols) are widely used to disseminate information in massive peer-to-peer networks. These protocols are often claimed to guarantee privacy because of the uncertainty they introduce on the node t ...

Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum2020

Dynamic Safe Interruptibility for Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Hadrien Hendrikx

In reinforcement learning, agents learn by performing actions and observing their outcomes. Sometimes, it is desirable for a human operator to \textit{interrupt} an agent in order to prevent dangerous situations from happening. Yet, as part of their learni ...

EPFL2017