Greedy Sparse Learning Over Network

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a greedy algorithm for solving the problem of sparse learning over a right stochastic network in a distributed manner. The nodes iteratively estimate the sparse signal by exchanging a weighted version of their individual intermediate estimates over the network. We provide a restricted-isometry-property (RIP)-based theoretical performance guarantee in the presence of additive noise. In the absence of noise, we show that under certain conditions on the RIP-constant of measurement matrix at each node of the network, the individual node estimates collectively converge to the true sparse signal. Furthermore, we provide an upper bound on the number of iterations required by the greedy algorithm to converge. Through simulations, we also show that the practical performance of the proposed algorithm is better than other state-of-the-art distributed greedy algorithms found in the literature.