Robust Online Learning over Networks

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Auteurs principaux: Bastianello, Nicola, Deplano, Diego, Franceschelli, Mauro, Johansson, Karl H.
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Publié: 2023
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author Bastianello, Nicola
Deplano, Diego
Franceschelli, Mauro
Johansson, Karl H.
author_facet Bastianello, Nicola
Deplano, Diego
Franceschelli, Mauro
Johansson, Karl H.
contents The recent deployment of multi-agent networks has enabled the distributed solution of learning problems, where agents cooperate to train a global model without sharing their local, private data. This work specifically targets some prevalent challenges inherent to distributed learning: (i) online training, i.e., the local data change over time; (ii) asynchronous agent computations; (iii) unreliable and limited communications; and (iv) inexact local computations. To tackle these challenges, we apply the Distributed Operator Theoretical (DOT) version of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), which we call "DOT-ADMM". We prove that if the DOT-ADMM operator is metric subregular, then it converges with a linear rate for a large class of (not necessarily strongly) convex learning problems toward a bounded neighborhood of the optimal time-varying solution, and characterize how such neighborhood depends on (i)-(iv). We first derive an easy-to-verify condition for ensuring the metric subregularity of an operator, followed by tutorial examples on linear and logistic regression problems. We corroborate the theoretical analysis with numerical simulations comparing DOT-ADMM with other state-of-the-art algorithms, showing that only the proposed algorithm exhibits robustness to (i)-(iv).
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spellingShingle Robust Online Learning over Networks
Bastianello, Nicola
Deplano, Diego
Franceschelli, Mauro
Johansson, Karl H.
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
The recent deployment of multi-agent networks has enabled the distributed solution of learning problems, where agents cooperate to train a global model without sharing their local, private data. This work specifically targets some prevalent challenges inherent to distributed learning: (i) online training, i.e., the local data change over time; (ii) asynchronous agent computations; (iii) unreliable and limited communications; and (iv) inexact local computations. To tackle these challenges, we apply the Distributed Operator Theoretical (DOT) version of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), which we call "DOT-ADMM". We prove that if the DOT-ADMM operator is metric subregular, then it converges with a linear rate for a large class of (not necessarily strongly) convex learning problems toward a bounded neighborhood of the optimal time-varying solution, and characterize how such neighborhood depends on (i)-(iv). We first derive an easy-to-verify condition for ensuring the metric subregularity of an operator, followed by tutorial examples on linear and logistic regression problems. We corroborate the theoretical analysis with numerical simulations comparing DOT-ADMM with other state-of-the-art algorithms, showing that only the proposed algorithm exhibits robustness to (i)-(iv).
title Robust Online Learning over Networks
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00520