Nonasymptotic convergence rates for cooperative learning over time-varying directed graphs

Angelia Nedic, Alex Olshevsky, Cesar A. Uribe

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Abstract

We study the problem of cooperative learning with a network of agents where some agents repeatedly access information about a random variable with unknown distribution. The group objective is to globally agree on a joint hypothesis (distribution) that best describes the observed data at all nodes. The agents interact with their neighbors in an unknown sequence of time-varying directed graphs. Following the pioneering work of Jadbabaie, Molavi, Sandroni, and Tahbaz-Salehi and others, we propose local learning dynamics which combine Bayesian updates at each node with a local aggregation rule of private agent signals. We show that these learning dynamics drive all agents to the set of hypotheses which best explain the data collected at all nodes as long as the sequence of interconnection graphs is uniformly strongly connected. Our main result establishes a non-asymptotic, explicit, geometric convergence rate for the learning dynamic.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationACC 2015 - 2015 American Control Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5884-5889
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479986842
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 28 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event2015 American Control Conference, ACC 2015 - Chicago, United States
Duration: Jul 1 2015Jul 3 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the American Control Conference
Volume2015-July
ISSN (Print)0743-1619

Other

Other2015 American Control Conference, ACC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago
Period7/1/157/3/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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