Scalable AI And Machine Learning In Distributed Systems: Challenges And Opportunities

Abhishek Chauhan; Ackmez Allamammaly; Deep Chandra; Hema Arya; Deepika Singh; Ravindra Singh Yadav

doi:10.29284/5pq5ja55

Authors

Abhishek Chauhan Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering (Al & Big Data), Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, 360003, India
Ackmez Allamammaly IT Analyst, Department of Information Technology, Mauritius Institute of Education (MIE), Reduit, Mauritius ORCID ID: 0009-0004-8230-8603
Deep Chandra Lecturer (English), Department of Education, Government Inter College, Baseri, Almora, Uttarakhand, India
Hema Arya A.W.S., Department of Women and Child Development, Almora (Block Syalde, P.O. Chachroti), Uttarakhand, India
Deepika Singh Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, AIMT, greater Noida (Aktu), UP, Bulandshahr
Ravindra Singh Yadav Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India ORCHID ID: 0009-0001-8060-0246

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29284/5pq5ja55

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Scalability; Distributed Systems; Challenges; Opportunities.

Abstract

The rapid development of data-driven applications across cloud platforms and edge devices and networked cyber-physical systems has established artificial intelligence and machine learning as essential technologies for enabling intelligent decision-making in distributed computing environments. The centralized learning models of traditional approaches are unable to fulfill the requirements of scalability, latency, and reliability, and data governance because data generation has become decentralized and computing demands have increased. AI model training and deployment capabilities exist within distributed systems that operate on diverse computational resources. Distributed learning frameworks and parallelized model training and decentralized optimization techniques have achieved their development goals but still face challenges from communication overhead and synchronization constraints and data heterogeneity and privacy and security risks and energy inefficiency and limited system transparency. This work systematically examines the problems and prospects of scalable AI and ML in distributed systems and identifies important factors that enable efficient and sustainable scalability. The researchers conducted their qualitative study through an extensive examination of current academic articles and technical reports and actual examples from various distributed computing systems including cloud-based and edge-based and hybrid distributed systems. The research findings demonstrate that scalable AI solutions increase computational performance and system reliability and response speed when they operate with distributed system architecture but their effectiveness suffers because of network requirements and uneven resource distribution and administrative difficulties. The combination of federation and adaptive resource orchestration and model compression and privacy-preserving learning techniques presents effective solutions to these challenges. The research indicates that distributed systems require three elements for AI expansion: algorithmic innovation and system optimization and development of ethical governance frameworks. The research provides strategic guidance for developing secure and high-performing distributed artificial intelligence systems which will support future intelligent applications in both academic and industrial settings.

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