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A Resilient Distributed Boosting Algorithm

Machine Learning 2022-06-14 v2 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

Given a learning task where the data is distributed among several parties, communication is one of the fundamental resources which the parties would like to minimize. We present a distributed boosting algorithm which is resilient to a limited amount of noise. Our algorithm is similar to classical boosting algorithms, although it is equipped with a new component, inspired by Impagliazzo's hard-core lemma [Impagliazzo95], adding a robustness quality to the algorithm. We also complement this result by showing that resilience to any asymptotically larger noise is not achievable by a communication-efficient algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.2206.04713,
  title  = {A Resilient Distributed Boosting Algorithm},
  author = {Yuval Filmus and Idan Mehalel and Shay Moran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04713},
  year   = {2022}
}