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Decentralized learning algorithms empower interconnected devices to share data and computational resources to collaboratively train a machine learning model without the aid of a central coordinator. In the case of heterogeneous data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Matteo Zecchin , Marios Kountouris , David Gesbert

Kernel-based methods enjoy powerful generalization capabilities in handling a variety of learning tasks. When such methods are provided with sufficient training data, broadly-applicable classes of nonlinear functions can be approximated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

We address distributed learning problems, both nonconvex and convex, over undirected networks. In particular, we design a novel algorithm based on the distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to address the challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini

This paper presents new and effective algorithms for learning kernels. In particular, as shown by our empirical results, these algorithms consistently outperform the so-called uniform combination solution that has proven to be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Corinna Cortes , Mehryar Mohri , Afshin Rostamizadeh

We propose a new decentralized robust kernel-based learning algorithm within the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) by utilizing a networked system that can be represented as a connected graph. The robust loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhan Yu , Zhongjie Shi , Ding-Xuan Zhou

This paper focuses on the decentralized optimization problem, where agents in a network cooperate to minimize the sum of their local objective functions by information exchange and local computation. Based on the alternating direction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Zhen Zhang , Shaofu Yang , Wenying Xu

Adversarial representation learning is a promising paradigm for obtaining data representations that are invariant to certain sensitive attributes while retaining the information necessary for predicting target attributes. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Bashir Sadeghi , Runyi Yu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Online learning with multiple kernels has gained increasing interests in recent years and found many applications. For classification tasks, Online Multiple Kernel Classification (OMKC), which learns a kernel based classifier by seeking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Jing Lu , Steven C. H. Hoi , Doyen Sahoo , Peilin Zhao

Multiple Kernel Learning, or MKL, extends (kernelized) SVM by attempting to learn not only a classifier/regressor but also the best kernel for the training task, usually from a combination of existing kernel functions. Most MKL methods seek…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-07 John Moeller , Sarathkrishna Swaminathan , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

In this paper, we consider decentralized optimization problems where agents have individual cost functions to minimize subject to subspace constraints that require the minimizers across the network to lie in low-dimensional subspaces. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Marco Carpentiero , Vincenzo Matta , Marc Antonini , Ali H. Sayed

Learning a kernel matrix from relative comparison human feedback is an important problem with applications in collaborative filtering, object retrieval, and search. For learning a kernel over a large number of objects, existing methods face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Eric Heim , Matthew Berger , Lee M. Seversky , Milos Hauskrecht

We propose a quantum kernel learning (QKL) framework to address the inherent data sparsity issues often encountered in training large-scare acoustic models in low-resource scenarios. We project acoustic features based on…

To address the communication burden issues associated with federated learning (FL), decentralized federated learning (DFL) discards the central server and establishes a decentralized communication network, where each client communicates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Qinglun Li , Li Shen , Guanghao Li , Quanjun Yin , Dacheng Tao

We consider distributed kernel bandits where $N$ agents aim to collaboratively maximize an unknown reward function that lies in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Each agent sequentially queries the function to obtain noisy observations at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Nikola Pavlovic , Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao

Decentralized machine learning is a promising emerging paradigm in view of global challenges of data ownership and privacy. We consider learning of linear classification and regression models, in the setting where the training data is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Lie He , An Bian , Martin Jaggi

Decentralized learning networks aim to synthesize a single network inference from a set of raw inferences provided by multiple participants. To determine the combined inference, these networks must adopt a mapping from historical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Renata Valieva , Steven N. Longmore

We introduce Constr-DRKM, a deep kernel method for the unsupervised learning of disentangled data representations. We propose augmenting the original deep restricted kernel machine formulation for kernel PCA by orthogonality constraints on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francesco Tonin , Panagiotis Patrinos , Johan A. K. Suykens

Traditional online continual learning (OCL) research has primarily focused on mitigating catastrophic forgetting with fixed and limited storage allocation throughout an agent's lifetime. However, a broad range of real-world applications are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Ameya Prabhu , Zhipeng Cai , Puneet Dokania , Philip Torr , Vladlen Koltun , Ozan Sener

In recent years, functional linear models have attracted growing attention in statistics and machine learning, with the aim of recovering the slope function or its functional predictor. This paper considers online regularized learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-28 Yuan Mao , Zheng-Chu Guo

We propose an online learning algorithm that adaptively designs a decentralized linear quadratic regulator when the system model is unknown a priori and new data samples from a single system trajectory become progressively available. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Lintao Ye , Ming Chi , Ruiquan Liao , Vijay Gupta