A Compressed Gradient Tracking Method for Decentralized Optimization With Linear Convergence

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Abstract: Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent network using only local computation and peer-to-peer communication. In this paper, we propose a novel compressed gradient tracking algorithm (C-GT) that combines gradient tracking technique with communication compression. In particular, C-GT is compatible with a general class of compression operators that unifies both unbiased and biased compressors. We show that C-GT inherits the advantages of gradient tracking-based algorithms and achieves linear convergence rate for strongly convex and smooth objective functions. Numerical examples complement the theoretical findings and demonstrate the efficiency and flexibility of the proposed algorithm.












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