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Energy-Harvesting Distributed Machine Learning

Machine Learning 2021-02-11 v1 Information Theory math.IT Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper provides a first study of utilizing energy harvesting for sustainable machine learning in distributed networks. We consider a distributed learning setup in which a machine learning model is trained over a large number of devices that can harvest energy from the ambient environment, and develop a practical learning framework with theoretical convergence guarantees. We demonstrate through numerical experiments that the proposed framework can significantly outperform energy-agnostic benchmarks. Our framework is scalable, requires only local estimation of the energy statistics, and can be applied to a wide range of distributed training settings, including machine learning in wireless networks, edge computing, and mobile internet of things.

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@article{arxiv.2102.05639,
  title  = {Energy-Harvesting Distributed Machine Learning},
  author = {Basak Guler and Aylin Yener},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05639},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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