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Consistent Tomography Under Partial Observations Over Adaptive Networks

Matta, Vincenzo
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Sayed, Ali H.  
January 1, 2019
Ieee Transactions On Information Theory

This paper studies the problem of inferring whether an agent is directly influenced by another agent over a network. Agent i influences agent j if they are connected (according to the network topology), and if agent j uses the data from agent i to update its online learning algorithm. The solution of this inference task is challenging for two main reasons. First, only the output of the learning algorithm is available to the external observer that must perform the inference based on these indirect measurements. Second, only output measurements from a fraction of the network agents is available, with the total number of agents itself being also unknown. The main focus of this paper is ascertaining under these demanding conditions whether consistent tomography is possible, namely, whether it is possible to reconstruct the interaction profile of the observable portion of the network, with negligible error as the network size increases. We establish a critical achievability result, namely, that for symmetric combination policies and for any given fraction of observable agents, the interacting and non-interacting agent pairs split into two separate clusters as the network size increases. This remarkable property then enables the application of clustering algorithms to identify the interacting agents influencing the observations. We provide a set of numerical experiments that verify the results for finite network sizes and time horizons. The numerical experiments show that the results hold for asymmetric combination policies as well, which is particularly relevant in the context of causation.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TIT.2018.2839192
Web of Science ID

WOS:000454110800041

Author(s)
Matta, Vincenzo
Sayed, Ali H.  
Date Issued

2019-01-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Information Theory
Volume

65

Issue

1

Start page

622

End page

646

Subjects

Computer Science, Information Systems

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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adaptive networks

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network tomography

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causation

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combination policy

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erdos-renyi model

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distributed detection

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directed information

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causal relationships

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learning-behavior

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performance

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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ASL  
Available on Infoscience
January 23, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/153947
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