Communication Bounds for the Distributed Experts Problem

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Hauptverfasser: Jia, Zhihao, Pang, Qi, Tran, Trung, Woodruff, David, Zhang, Zhihao, Zheng, Wenting
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author Jia, Zhihao
Pang, Qi
Tran, Trung
Woodruff, David
Zhang, Zhihao
Zheng, Wenting
author_facet Jia, Zhihao
Pang, Qi
Tran, Trung
Woodruff, David
Zhang, Zhihao
Zheng, Wenting
contents In this work, we study the experts problem in the distributed setting where an expert's cost needs to be aggregated across multiple servers. Our study considers various communication models such as the message-passing model and the broadcast model, along with multiple aggregation functions, such as summing and taking the $\ell_p$ norm of an expert's cost across servers. We propose the first communication-efficient protocols that achieve near-optimal regret in these settings, even against a strong adversary who can choose the inputs adaptively. Additionally, we give a conditional lower bound showing that the communication of our protocols is nearly optimal. Finally, we implement our protocols and demonstrate empirical savings on the HPO-B benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Communication Bounds for the Distributed Experts Problem
Jia, Zhihao
Pang, Qi
Tran, Trung
Woodruff, David
Zhang, Zhihao
Zheng, Wenting
Machine Learning
In this work, we study the experts problem in the distributed setting where an expert's cost needs to be aggregated across multiple servers. Our study considers various communication models such as the message-passing model and the broadcast model, along with multiple aggregation functions, such as summing and taking the $\ell_p$ norm of an expert's cost across servers. We propose the first communication-efficient protocols that achieve near-optimal regret in these settings, even against a strong adversary who can choose the inputs adaptively. Additionally, we give a conditional lower bound showing that the communication of our protocols is nearly optimal. Finally, we implement our protocols and demonstrate empirical savings on the HPO-B benchmarks.
title Communication Bounds for the Distributed Experts Problem
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03132