Achieving acceleration in distributed optimization via direct discretization of the heavy-ball ODE

© 2019 American Automatic Control Council. We develop a distributed algorithm for convex Empirical Risk Minimization, the problem of minimizing large but finite sum of convex functions over networks. The proposed algorithm is derived from directly discretizing the second-order heavy-ball differentia...

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Main Authors: Zhang, J, Uribe, CA, Mokhtari, A, Jadbabaie, A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148596
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description © 2019 American Automatic Control Council. We develop a distributed algorithm for convex Empirical Risk Minimization, the problem of minimizing large but finite sum of convex functions over networks. The proposed algorithm is derived from directly discretizing the second-order heavy-ball differential equation and results in an accelerated convergence rate, i.e., faster than distributed gradient descent-based methods for strongly convex objectives that may not be smooth. Notably, we achieve acceleration without resorting to the well-known Nesterov's momentum approach. We provide numerical experiments and contrast the proposed method with recently proposed optimal distributed optimization algorithms.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1485962023-03-18T03:28:38Z Achieving acceleration in distributed optimization via direct discretization of the heavy-ball ODE Zhang, J Uribe, CA Mokhtari, A Jadbabaie, A Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society © 2019 American Automatic Control Council. We develop a distributed algorithm for convex Empirical Risk Minimization, the problem of minimizing large but finite sum of convex functions over networks. The proposed algorithm is derived from directly discretizing the second-order heavy-ball differential equation and results in an accelerated convergence rate, i.e., faster than distributed gradient descent-based methods for strongly convex objectives that may not be smooth. Notably, we achieve acceleration without resorting to the well-known Nesterov's momentum approach. We provide numerical experiments and contrast the proposed method with recently proposed optimal distributed optimization algorithms. 2023-03-17T16:05:25Z 2023-03-17T16:05:25Z 2019-07-01 2023-03-17T15:57:55Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148596 Zhang, J, Uribe, CA, Mokhtari, A and Jadbabaie, A. 2019. "Achieving acceleration in distributed optimization via direct discretization of the heavy-ball ODE." Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2019-July. en 10.23919/acc.2019.8814686 Proceedings of the American Control Conference Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IEEE MIT web domain
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title_short Achieving acceleration in distributed optimization via direct discretization of the heavy-ball ODE
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