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Distributed Sketching Methods for Privacy Preserving Regression

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2020-06-23 v2 Cryptography and Security Machine Learning

Abstract

In this work, we study distributed sketching methods for large scale regression problems. We leverage multiple randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as preserving privacy and improving straggler resilience in asynchronous distributed systems. We derive novel approximation guarantees for classical sketching methods and analyze the accuracy of parameter averaging for distributed sketches. We consider random matrices including Gaussian, randomized Hadamard, uniform sampling and leverage score sampling in the distributed setting. Moreover, we propose a hybrid approach combining sampling and fast random projections for better computational efficiency. We illustrate the performance of distributed sketches in a serverless computing platform with large scale experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2002.06538,
  title  = {Distributed Sketching Methods for Privacy Preserving Regression},
  author = {Burak Bartan and Mert Pilanci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.06538},
  year   = {2020}
}
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