In modern data science, it is common that large-scale data are stored and processed parallelly across a great number of locations. For reasons including confidentiality concerns, only limited data information from each parallel center is eligible to be transferred. To solve these problems more efficiently, a group of communication-efficient methods are being actively developed. The first part of our investigation is the distributions of the distributed M-estimators that require a one-step update, combining data information collected from all parallel centers. We reveal that the number of centers plays a critical role. When it is not small compared with the total sample size, a non-negligible impact occurs to the limiting distributions, which turn out to be mixtures involving products of normal random variables. Based on our analysis, we propose a multiplier-bootstrap method for approximating the distributions of these one-step updated estimators.
Our second contribution is that we propose two communication-efficient Newton-type algorithms, combining the M-estimator and the gradient collected from each data center. They are created by constructing two Fisher information estimators globally with those communication-efficient statistics. Enjoying a higher rate of convergence, this framework improves upon existing Newton-like methods. Moreover, we present two bias-adjusted one-step distributed estimators. When the square of the center-wise sample size is of a greater magnitude than the total number of centers, they are as efficient as the global M-estimator asymptotically. The advantages of our methods are illustrated by extensive theoretical and empirical evidences. / Statistics
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TEMPLE/oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/8054 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Yin, Ziyan |
| Contributors | Tang, Cheng Yong, Chen, Yong, Dong, Yuexiao, Yang, Wei-shih, 1954- |
| Publisher | Temple University. Libraries |
| Source Sets | Temple University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 172 pages |
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| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/8026, Theses and Dissertations |
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