Distributed Stochastic Approximation with Local Projections

نویسندگان

  • Suhail M. Shah
  • Vivek S. Borkar
چکیده

We propose a distributed version of a stochastic approximation scheme constrained to remain in the intersection of a finite family of convex sets. The projection to the intersection of these sets is also computed in a distributed manner and a ‘nonlinear gossip’ mechanism is employed to blend the projection iterations with the stochastic approximation using multiple time scales.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1708.08246  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017