Better Bounds for the Distributed Experts Problem

David P. Woodruff, Samson Zhou
3/10/2026
cs.LGcs.DSstat.ML

No confident code implementation found for this paper. 1 possible match can be shown below.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the distributed experts problem, where $n$ experts are distributed across $s$ servers for $T$ timesteps. The loss of each expert at each time $t$ is the $\ell_p$ norm of the vector that consists of the losses of the expert at each of the $s$ servers at time $t$. The goal is to minimize the regret $R$, i.e., the loss of the distributed protocol compared to the loss of the best expert, amortized over the all $T$ times, while using the minimum amount of communication. We give a protocol that achieves regret roughly $R\gtrsim\frac{1}{\sqrt{T}\cdot\text{poly}\log(nsT)}$, using $\mathcal{O}\left(\frac{n}{R^2}+\frac{s}{R^2}\right)\cdot\max(s^{1-2/p},1)\cdot\text{poly}\log(nsT)$ bits of communication, which improves on previous work.

View on arXivView PDF

Code Implementations

No confident code match yet

We couldn't find an author-owned or strongly-evidenced community implementation for this paper. 1 weaker match is hidden by default — verify before relying on them.

No code implementations found yet.

Know of an implementation? Let us know in the comments below!

Similar Papers

Cite this paper

@article{woodruff2026better,
  title  = {Better Bounds for the Distributed Experts Problem},
  author = {David P. Woodruff and Samson Zhou},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.09168},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09168v1}
}

Add a badge to your README

Shows whether official code is linked for this paper.

Code of Paper badge
[![Code of Paper](https://codeofpaper.com/badge/2603.09168.svg)](https://codeofpaper.com/paper/2603.09168)

Discussion