Gramian-based adaptive combination policies for diffusion learning over networks

Yigit Efe Erginbas, Stefan Vlaski and Ali H. Sayed
IEEE ICASSP 2021

Abstract: This paper presents an adaptive combination strategy for distributed learning over diffusion networks. Since learning relies on the collaborative processing of the stochastic information at the dispersed agents, the overall performance can be improved by designing combination policies that adjust the weights according to the quality of the data. Such policies are important because they would add a new degree of freedom and endow multi-agent systems with the ability to control the flow of information over their edges for enhanced performance. Most adaptive and static policies available in the literature optimize certain performance metrics related to steady-state behavior, to the detriment of transient behavior. In contrast, we develop an adaptive combination rule that aims at optimizing the transient learning performance, while maintaining the enhanced steady-state performance obtained using policies previously developed in the literature.

Y. E. Erginbas, S. Vlaski and A. H. Sayed, "Gramian-Based Adaptive Combination Policies for Diffusion Learning Over Networks," ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021, pp. 5215-5219, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414449.

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