Timezone: »
Poster
Tight Bounds for Collaborative PAC Learning via Multiplicative Weights
Jiecao Chen · Qin Zhang · Yuan Zhou
We study the collaborative PAC learning problem recently proposed in Blum et al.~\cite{BHPQ17}, in which we have $k$ players and they want to learn a target function collaboratively, such that the learned function approximates the target function well on all players' distributions simultaneously. The quality of the collaborative learning algorithm is measured by the ratio between the sample complexity of the algorithm and that of the learning algorithm for a single distribution (called the overhead). We obtain a collaborative learning algorithm with overhead $O(\ln k)$, improving the one with overhead $O(\ln^2 k)$ in \cite{BHPQ17}. We also show that an $\Omega(\ln k)$ overhead is inevitable when $k$ is polynomial bounded by the VC dimension of the hypothesis class. Finally, our experimental study has demonstrated the superiority of our algorithm compared with the one in Blum et al.~\cite{BHPQ17} on real-world datasets.
Author Information
Jiecao Chen (Indiana University Bloomington)
Qin Zhang (Indiana University Bloomington)
Yuan Zhou (Indiana University Bloomington)
More from the Same Authors
-
2020 Poster: Batched Coarse Ranking in Multi-Armed Bandits »
Nikolai Karpov · Qin Zhang -
2019 Poster: Sampled Softmax with Random Fourier Features »
Ankit Singh Rawat · Jiecao Chen · Felix Xinnan Yu · Ananda Theertha Suresh · Sanjiv Kumar -
2018 Poster: A Practical Algorithm for Distributed Clustering and Outlier Detection »
Jiecao Chen · Erfan Sadeqi Azer · Qin Zhang -
2018 Poster: Near-Optimal Policies for Dynamic Multinomial Logit Assortment Selection Models »
Yining Wang · Xi Chen · Yuan Zhou -
2016 Poster: Communication-Optimal Distributed Clustering »
Jiecao Chen · He Sun · David Woodruff · Qin Zhang