Distributed Sparse Linear Regression under Communication Constraints

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Fonseca, Rodney, Nadler, Boaz
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2023
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866911348561018880
author Fonseca, Rodney
Nadler, Boaz
author_facet Fonseca, Rodney
Nadler, Boaz
contents In multiple domains, statistical tasks are performed in distributed settings, with data split among several end machines that are connected to a fusion center. In various applications, the end machines have limited bandwidth and power, and thus a tight communication budget. In this work we focus on distributed learning of a sparse linear regression model, under severe communication constraints. We propose several two round distributed schemes, whose communication per machine is sublinear in the data dimension. In our schemes, individual machines compute debiased lasso estimators, but send to the fusion center only very few values. On the theoretical front, we analyze one of these schemes and prove that with high probability it achieves exact support recovery at low signal to noise ratios, where individual machines fail to recover the support. We show in simulations that our scheme works as well as, and in some cases better, than more communication intensive approaches.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2301_04022
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Distributed Sparse Linear Regression under Communication Constraints
Fonseca, Rodney
Nadler, Boaz
Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
62J07, 62J05, 68W15
In multiple domains, statistical tasks are performed in distributed settings, with data split among several end machines that are connected to a fusion center. In various applications, the end machines have limited bandwidth and power, and thus a tight communication budget. In this work we focus on distributed learning of a sparse linear regression model, under severe communication constraints. We propose several two round distributed schemes, whose communication per machine is sublinear in the data dimension. In our schemes, individual machines compute debiased lasso estimators, but send to the fusion center only very few values. On the theoretical front, we analyze one of these schemes and prove that with high probability it achieves exact support recovery at low signal to noise ratios, where individual machines fail to recover the support. We show in simulations that our scheme works as well as, and in some cases better, than more communication intensive approaches.
title Distributed Sparse Linear Regression under Communication Constraints
topic Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
62J07, 62J05, 68W15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04022