2016

Randomized Distributed Mean Estimation: Accuracy vs Communication

Konečný, Jakub, Richtárik, Peter

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We consider the problem of estimating the arithmetic average of a finite collection of real vectors stored in a distributed fashion across several compute nodes subject to a communication budget constraint.

  • Our analysis does not rely on any statistical assumptions about the source of the vectors.
  • This problem arises as a subproblem in many applications, including reduce-all operations within algorithms for distributed and federated optimization and learning.
  • We propose a flexible family of randomized algorithms exploring the trade-off between expected communication cost and estimation error.

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