Asynchronous Distributed Optimization with Delay-free Parameters

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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Xuyang, Liu, Changxin, Magnusson, Sindri, Johansson, Mikael
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author Wu, Xuyang
Liu, Changxin
Magnusson, Sindri
Johansson, Mikael
author_facet Wu, Xuyang
Liu, Changxin
Magnusson, Sindri
Johansson, Mikael
contents Existing asynchronous distributed optimization algorithms often use diminishing step-sizes that cause slow practical convergence, or use fixed step-sizes that depend on and decrease with an upper bound of the delays. Not only are such delay bounds hard to obtain in advance, but they also tend to be large and rarely attained, resulting in unnecessarily slow convergence. This paper develops asynchronous versions of two distributed algorithms, Prox-DGD and DGD-ATC, for solving consensus optimization problems over undirected networks. In contrast to alternatives, our algorithms can converge to the fixed point set of their synchronous counterparts using step-sizes that are independent of the delays. We establish convergence guarantees for convex and strongly convex problems under both partial and total asynchrony. We also show that the convergence speed of the two asynchronous methods adjusts to the actual level of asynchrony rather than being constrained by the worst-case. Numerical experiments demonstrate a strong practical performance of our asynchronous algorithms.
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spellingShingle Asynchronous Distributed Optimization with Delay-free Parameters
Wu, Xuyang
Liu, Changxin
Magnusson, Sindri
Johansson, Mikael
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Existing asynchronous distributed optimization algorithms often use diminishing step-sizes that cause slow practical convergence, or use fixed step-sizes that depend on and decrease with an upper bound of the delays. Not only are such delay bounds hard to obtain in advance, but they also tend to be large and rarely attained, resulting in unnecessarily slow convergence. This paper develops asynchronous versions of two distributed algorithms, Prox-DGD and DGD-ATC, for solving consensus optimization problems over undirected networks. In contrast to alternatives, our algorithms can converge to the fixed point set of their synchronous counterparts using step-sizes that are independent of the delays. We establish convergence guarantees for convex and strongly convex problems under both partial and total asynchrony. We also show that the convergence speed of the two asynchronous methods adjusts to the actual level of asynchrony rather than being constrained by the worst-case. Numerical experiments demonstrate a strong practical performance of our asynchronous algorithms.
title Asynchronous Distributed Optimization with Delay-free Parameters
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06508