Federated UCBVI: Communication-Efficient Federated Regret Minimization with Heterogeneous Agents

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Autori principali: Labbi, Safwan, Tiapkin, Daniil, Mancini, Lorenzo, Mangold, Paul, Moulines, Eric
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author Labbi, Safwan
Tiapkin, Daniil
Mancini, Lorenzo
Mangold, Paul
Moulines, Eric
author_facet Labbi, Safwan
Tiapkin, Daniil
Mancini, Lorenzo
Mangold, Paul
Moulines, Eric
contents In this paper, we present the Federated Upper Confidence Bound Value Iteration algorithm ($\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$), a novel extension of the $\texttt{UCBVI}$ algorithm (Azar et al., 2017) tailored for the federated learning framework. We prove that the regret of $\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$ scales as $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{H^3 |\mathcal{S}| |\mathcal{A}| T / M})$, with a small additional term due to heterogeneity, where $|\mathcal{S}|$ is the number of states, $|\mathcal{A}|$ is the number of actions, $H$ is the episode length, $M$ is the number of agents, and $T$ is the number of episodes. Notably, in the single-agent setting, this upper bound matches the minimax lower bound up to polylogarithmic factors, while in the multi-agent scenario, $\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$ has linear speed-up. To conduct our analysis, we introduce a new measure of heterogeneity, which may hold independent theoretical interest. Furthermore, we show that, unlike existing federated reinforcement learning approaches, $\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$'s communication complexity only marginally increases with the number of agents.
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spellingShingle Federated UCBVI: Communication-Efficient Federated Regret Minimization with Heterogeneous Agents
Labbi, Safwan
Tiapkin, Daniil
Mancini, Lorenzo
Mangold, Paul
Moulines, Eric
Machine Learning
In this paper, we present the Federated Upper Confidence Bound Value Iteration algorithm ($\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$), a novel extension of the $\texttt{UCBVI}$ algorithm (Azar et al., 2017) tailored for the federated learning framework. We prove that the regret of $\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$ scales as $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{H^3 |\mathcal{S}| |\mathcal{A}| T / M})$, with a small additional term due to heterogeneity, where $|\mathcal{S}|$ is the number of states, $|\mathcal{A}|$ is the number of actions, $H$ is the episode length, $M$ is the number of agents, and $T$ is the number of episodes. Notably, in the single-agent setting, this upper bound matches the minimax lower bound up to polylogarithmic factors, while in the multi-agent scenario, $\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$ has linear speed-up. To conduct our analysis, we introduce a new measure of heterogeneity, which may hold independent theoretical interest. Furthermore, we show that, unlike existing federated reinforcement learning approaches, $\texttt{Fed-UCBVI}$'s communication complexity only marginally increases with the number of agents.
title Federated UCBVI: Communication-Efficient Federated Regret Minimization with Heterogeneous Agents
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22908