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Distributed block-diagonal approximation methods for regularized empirical risk minimization

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Ching-pei Lee
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Kai-Wei Chang *
DOI:10.1007/s10994-019-05859-2delete
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In recent years, there is a growing need to train machine learning models on a huge volume of data. Therefore, designing efficient distributed optimization algorithms for empirical risk minimization (ERM) has become an active and challenging research topic. In this paper, we propose a flexible framework for distributed ERM training through solving the dual problem, which provides a unified description and comparison of existing methods. Our approach requires only approximate solutions of the sub-problems involved in the optimization process, and is versatile to be applied on many large-scale machine learning problems including classification, regression, and structured prediction. We show that our framework enjoys global linear convergence for a broad class of non-strongly-convex problems, and some specific choices of the sub-problems can even achieve much faster convergence than existing approaches by a refined analysis. This improved convergence rate is also reflected in the superior empirical performance of our method.
Keywords:
Distributed optimization
Large-scale learning
Empirical risk minimization
Dual method
Inexact method
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