Convergence Analysis of Nonconvex Distributed Stochastic Zeroth-order Coordinate Method

英文摘要

This paper investigates the stochastic distributed nonconvex optimization problem of minimizing a global cost function formed by the summation of $n$ local cost functions. We solve such a problem by involving zeroth-order (ZO) information exchange. In this paper, we propose a ZO distributed primal-dual coordinate method (ZODIAC) to solve the stochastic optimization problem. Agents approximate their own local stochastic ZO oracle along with coordinates with an adaptive smoothing parameter. We show that the proposed algorithm achieves the convergence rate of $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{p}/\sqrt{T})$ for general nonconvex cost functions. We demonstrate the efficiency of proposed algorithms through a numerical example in comparison with the existing state-of-the-art centralized and distributed ZO algorithms.

发表机构

• University of North Texas（北得克萨斯大学）
• Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）

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