## Multi-agent Performative Prediction with Greedy Deployment and Consensus Seeking Agents

Published: 31 Oct 2022, 18:00, Last Modified: 11 Jan 2023, 11:26NeurIPS 2022 AcceptReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Performative prediction, Multi-agent, Decentralized stochastic algorithm.
TL;DR: With consensus-seeking agents find the performative stable solution even when there are more sensitive users.
Abstract: We consider a scenario where multiple agents are learning a common decision vector from data which can be influenced by the agents’ decisions. This leads to the problem of multi-agent performative prediction (Multi-PfD). In this paper, we formulate Multi-PfD as a decentralized optimization problem that minimizes a sum of loss functions, where each loss function is based on a distribution influenced by the local decision vector. We first prove the necessary and sufficient condition for the Multi-PfD problem to admit a unique multi-agent performative stable (Multi-PS) solution. We show that enforcing consensus leads to a laxer condition for existence of Multi-PS solution with respect to the distributions’ sensitivities, compared to the single agent case. Then, we study a decentralized extension to  the greedy deployment scheme [Mendler-Dünner et al., 2020], called the DSGD-GD  scheme. We show that DSGD-GD converges to the Multi-PS solution and analyze its non asymptotic convergence rate. Numerical results validate our analysis.
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