Proximal diffusion for stochastic costs with non-differentiable regularizers
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Vlaski, Stefan
Sayed, Ali H
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We consider networks of agents cooperating to minimize a global objective, modeled as the aggregate sum of regularized costs that are not required to be differentiable. Since the subgradients of the individual costs cannot generally be assumed to be uniformly bounded, general distributed subgradient techniques are not applicable to these problems. We isolate the requirement of bounded subgradients into the regularizer and use splitting techniques to develop a stochastic proximal diffusion strategy for solving the optimization problem by continuously learning from streaming data. We represent the implementation as the cascade of three operators and invoke Banach's fixed-point theorem to establish that, despite gradient noise, the stochastic implementation is able to converge in the mean-square-error sense within O(μ) from the optimal solution, for a sufficiently small step-size parameter, μ.
Date Issued
2015-08-06
Date Acceptance
2015-04-01
Citation
2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015, pp.3352-3356
ISSN
1520-6149
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
3352
End Page
3356
Journal / Book Title
2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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Source
40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Subjects
Acoustics
diffusion strategy
Distributed optimization
Engineering
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
fixed point
gradient noise
proximal operator
regularization
Science & Technology
Technology
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-04-19
Finish Date
2015-04-24
Coverage Spatial
Brisbane, Australia