Contributing EDEN compression pipeline #527
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This PR contains a contribution by VMware Research of EDEN -- an unbiased lossy compression method that uses a random rotation followed by deterministic quantization and scaling, as described in the following ICML 2022 paper:
"EDEN: Communication-Efficient and Robust Distributed Mean Estimation for Federated Learning"
Shay Vargaftik, Ran Ben Basat, Amit Portnoy, Gal Mendelson, Yaniv Ben Itzhak, Michael Mitzenmacher,
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 162:21984-22014, 2022.
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/vargaftik22a.html