Automatic Performance Estimation for Decentralized Optimization
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Publication:6199899
DOI10.1109/TAC.2023.3251902arXiv2203.05963MaRDI QIDQ6199899FDOQ6199899
Authors: Julien M. Hendrickx 
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We present a methodology to automatically compute worst-case performance bounds for a large class of first-order decentralized optimization algorithms. These algorithms aim at minimizing the average of local functions that are distributed across a network of agents. They typically combine local computations and consensus steps. Our methodology is based on the approach of Performance Estimation Problem (PEP), which allows computing the worst-case performance and a worst-case instance of first-order optimization algorithms by solving an SDP. We propose two ways of representing consensus steps in PEPs, which allow writing and solving PEPs for decentralized optimization. The first formulation is exact but specific to a given averaging matrix. The second formulation is a relaxation but provides guarantees valid over an entire class of averaging matrices, characterized by their spectral range. This formulation often allows recovering a posteriori the worst possible averaging matrix for the given algorithm. We apply our methodology to three different decentralized methods. For each of them, we obtain numerically tight worst-case performance bounds that significantly improve on the existing ones, as well as insights about the parameters tuning and the worst communication networks.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05963
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