Extending Gossip Algorithms to Distributed Estimation of U-statistics

Authors: Igor Colin, Aurélien Bellet, Joseph Salmon, Stéphan Clémençon

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental numerical experiments provide empirical evidence the proposed algorithms surpasses the previously introduced approach. Experiments conducted on AUC and within-cluster point scatter estimation using real data confirm the superiority of our approach. Section 5 presents our numerical results.
Researcher Affiliation Academia LTCI, CNRS, T el ecom Paris Tech Universit e Paris-Saclay 75013 Paris, France first.last@telecom-paristech.fr Aur elien Bellet Magnet Team INRIA Lille Nord Europe 59650 Villeneuve d Ascq, France aurelien.bellet@inria.fr
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Go Sta-sync: a synchronous gossip algorithm for computing a U-statistic. Algorithm 2 Go Sta-async: an asynchronous gossip algorithm for computing a U-statistic.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statements or links regarding the availability of source code for the methodology.
Open Datasets Yes This dataset is available at http://mldata.org/repository/data/viewslug/svmguide3/ This dataset is available at https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Wine
Dataset Splits No The paper describes the datasets and their properties but does not specify training, validation, or test splits in the traditional machine learning sense for model training, as the algorithms aim to estimate a U-statistic over the entire distributed dataset.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide any specific details about the hardware used to run the experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not specify any software dependencies or their version numbers.
Experiment Setup Yes We perform our simulations on the three types of network described below (corresponding values of 1 λ2(2) are shown in Table 1). Here, we use k = 5 and p = 0.3 to achieve a connectivity compromise between the complete graph and the two-dimensional grid. For each generated network, we perform 50 runs of Go Sta-sync (Algorithm 1) and U2-gossip.