Networked optimization with adaptive communication
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Methods for distributed optimization are necessary to solve large-scale problems such as those becoming more common in machine learning. The communication cost associated with transmitting large messages can become a serious performance bottleneck. We propose a consensus-based distributed algorithm to minimize a convex separable objective. Each node holds one component of the objective function, and the nodes alternate between a computation phase, where local gradient steps are performed based on the local objective, and a communication phase, where consensus steps are performed to bring the local states into agreement. The nodes use local decision rules to adaptively determine when communication is not necessary. This results in significantly lower communication costs and allows a user to tradeoff the amount of communication with the accuracy of the final output. Experiments on a cluster using simulated and real datasets illustrate the tradeoff.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it