화학공학소재연구정보센터
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.61, No.12, 3936-3947, 2016
Stochastic Gradient-Push for Strongly Convex Functions on Time-Varying Directed Graphs
We investigate the convergence rate of the recently proposed subgradient-push method for distributed optimization over time-varying directed graphs. The subgradient-push method can be implemented in a distributed way without requiring knowledge of either the number of agents or the graph sequence; each node is only required to know its out-degree at each time. Our main result is a convergence rate of O((ln t)/t) for strongly convex functions with Lipschitz gradients even if only stochastic gradient samples are available; this is asymptotically faster than the O((ln t)/root t) rate previously known for (general) convex functions.