Distributed Online Min-Max Load Balancing with Risk-Averse Assistance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Motivated by a wide range of applications from parallel computing to distributed learning, we study distributed online load balancing among multiple workers. We aim to minimize the pointwise maximum over the workers' local cost functions. We propose a novel algorithm termed Distributed Online Load Balancing with rIsk-averse assistancE (DOLBIE), which jointly considers the worker heterogeneity and system dynamics. The workload is distributed to workers in an online manner, where the underloaded workers learn to provide an appropriate amount of assistance to the most overloaded worker for the next online round without making themselves overwhelmed. In DOLBIE, all workers participate in updating the workload simultaneously, and no computationally intensive gradient or projection calculation is required. DOLBIE can be implemented in both the master-worker and fully-distributed architectures. We analyze the worst-case performance of DOLBIE by deriving an upper bound on its dynamic regret. We further demonstrate the application of DOLBIE to online batch-size tuning in distributed machine learning. Our experimental results show that, in comparison with state-of-the-art alternatives, DOLBIE can substantially speed up the training process and reduce the workers' idle time.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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