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Part & x00A0;I of this paper considered optimization problems over networks where agents have individual objectives to meet, or individual parameter vectors to estimate, subject to subspace constraints that require the objectives across the network to lie in low-dimensional subspaces. Starting from the centralized projected gradient descent, an iterative and distributed solution was proposed that responds to streaming data and employs stochastic approximations in place of actual gradient vectors, which are generally unavailable. We examined the second-order stability of the learning algorithm and we showed that, for small step-sizes , the proposed strategy leads to small estimation errors on the order of . This Part & x00A0;II examines steady-state performance. The results reveal explicitly the influence of the gradient noise, data characteristics, and subspace constraints, on the network performance. The results also show that in the small step-size regime, the iterates generated by the distributed algorithm achieve the centralized steady-state performance.
Nicolas Henri Bernard Flammarion, Oguz Kaan Yüksel, Etienne Patrice Boursier
Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Ondine Gabrielle Chanon
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