Ryan Chard

Profiling and Predicting Application Performance on the Cloud

2018

Cloud providers continue to expand and diversify their collection of leasable resources to meet the needs of an increasingly wide range of applications. While this flexibility is a key benefit of the cloud, it also …

Tournament-Based Pretraining to Accelerate Federated Learning

2023

Advances in hardware, proliferation of compute at the edge, and data creation at unprecedented scales have made federated learning (FL) necessary for the next leap forward in pervasive machine learning. For privacy and network reasons, …