Partial Information Sharing Over Social Learning Networks
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DOI10.1109/TIT.2022.3227587arXiv2006.13659WikidataQ117044882 ScholiaQ117044882MaRDI QIDQ6153650FDOQ6153650
Authors: Virginia Bordignon, Vincenzo Matta, Ali H. Sayed 
Publication date: 19 March 2024
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: This work addresses the problem of sharing partial information within social learning strategies. In traditional social learning, agents solve a distributed multiple hypothesis testing problem by performing two operations at each instant: first, agents incorporate information from private observations to form their beliefs over a set of hypotheses; second, agents combine the entirety of their beliefs locally among neighbors. Within a sufficiently informative environment and as long as the connectivity of the network allows information to diffuse across agents, these algorithms enable agents to learn the true hypothesis. Instead of sharing the entirety of their beliefs, this work considers the case in which agents will only share their beliefs regarding one hypothesis of interest, with the purpose of evaluating its validity, and draws conditions under which this policy does not affect truth learning. We propose two approaches for sharing partial information, depending on whether agents behave in a self-aware manner or not. The results show how different learning regimes arise, depending on the approach employed and on the inherent characteristics of the inference problem. Furthermore, the analysis interestingly points to the possibility of deceiving the network, as long as the evaluated hypothesis of interest is close enough to the truth.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13659
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