Gradient Manipulation in Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent with Strategic Agents: Truthful Incentives with Convergence Guarantees

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Source paper: Gradient Manipulation in Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent with Strategic Agents: Truthful Incentives with Convergence Guarantees

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27962v1

Source count: 3

Coverage: 50%

Last proof check: 2026-03-31T20:23:02.922Z

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We propose the first fully distributed incentive mechanism for distributed stochastic gradient descent with strategic agents, without relying on any centralized server or aggregator.
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Explicitly stated in abstract and conclusion as a key contribution, with comparison table showing it's the only approach with all four desirable properties.
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JDP-based approaches require a centralized server to collect iteration variables from all agents in order to compute the necessary noise
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Directly stated in multiple sections as a key limitation of existing approaches that this work addresses.
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we also prove that our approach guarantees the cumulative gain that an agent can obtain through strategic behavior remains finite, even as the number of iterations approaches infinity
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Explicitly stated in abstract and defined in results table as 'ε-Incentive compatible' property.
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We use 'Budget balanced' to mean total payments collected equal to total payments distributed
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Explicitly stated in results table comparison showing this property, unlike VCG-based approaches.
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In addition to characterizing the convergence rate under general convex and strongly convex conditions
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Explicitly stated in abstract and technical analysis sections as broader than existing approaches.
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VCG-based approaches are not budget-balanced and often involve surplus payments
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Directly stated as a limitation of existing approaches in the related work section.
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those results do not consider agents' strategic manipulation on iterative updates for personal gains
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Directly stated in related work section as a gap in existing literature.
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our proposed Mechanism 1 ensures convergence to an exact optimal solution θ* to the problem in (1) at rates O(T^(-v)) and O(T^(-(1-v))) for strongly convex and general convex f_i(θ), respectively
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Explicit convergence rates provided in technical analysis section with theorem statement.
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