Fast Algorithms for Packing Proportional Fairness and Its Dual

Abstract

The proportional fair resource allocation problem is a major problem studied in flow control of networks, operations research, and economic theory, where it has found numerous applications. This problem, defined as the constrained maximization of $\sum_i \log x_i$, is known as the packing proportional fairness problem when the feasible set is defined by positive linear constraints and $x \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}^n$. In this work, we present a distributed accelerated first-order method for this problem which improves upon previous approaches. We also design an algorithm for the optimization of its dual problem. Both algorithms are width-independent.

Cite

Text

Criado et al. "Fast Algorithms for Packing Proportional Fairness and Its Dual." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.

Markdown

[Criado et al. "Fast Algorithms for Packing Proportional Fairness and Its Dual." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2022/criado2022neurips-fast/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{criado2022neurips-fast,
  title     = {{Fast Algorithms for Packing Proportional Fairness and Its Dual}},
  author    = {Criado, Francisco and Martinez-Rubio, David and Pokutta, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2022},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2022/criado2022neurips-fast/}
}