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On the Strategyproofness of the Geometric Median

El Mhamdi, El Mahdi  
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Farhadkhani, Sadegh  
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Guerraoui, Rachid  
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2023
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

The geometric median, an instrumental component of the secure machine learning toolbox, is known to be effective when robustly aggregating models (or gradients), gathered from potentially malicious (or strategic) users. What is less known is the extent to which the geometric median incentivizes dishonest behaviors. This paper addresses this fundamental question by quantifying its strategyproofness. While we observe that the geometric median is not even approximately strategyproof, we prove that it is asymptotically α-strategyproof: when the number of users is large enough, a user that misbehaves can gain at most a multiplicative factor α, which we compute as a function of the distribution followed by the users. We then generalize our results to the case where users actually care more about specific dimensions, determining how this impacts α. We also show how the skewed geometric medians can be used to improve strategyproofness.

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conference paper
Author(s)
El Mhamdi, El Mahdi  
Farhadkhani, Sadegh  
Guerraoui, Rachid  
Hoang, Le Nguyen  
Date Issued

2023

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Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
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Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; 206

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26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

Valencia, Spain

April 25-27, 2023

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March 18, 2023
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