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We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mahdi Soleymani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

We address the problem of finding optimal strategies for computing Boolean symmetric functions. We consider a collocated network, where each node's transmissions can be heard by every other node. Each node has a Boolean measurement and we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Hemant Kowshik , P. R. Kumar

The work considers the $N$-server distributed computing scenario with $K$ users requesting functions that are linearly-decomposable over an arbitrary basis of $L$ real (potentially non-linear) subfunctions. In our problem, the aim is for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

We consider the function computation problem in a three node network with one encoder and two decoders. The encoder has access to two correlated sources $X$ and $Y$. The encoder encodes $X^n$ and $Y^n$ into a message which is given to two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Jithin Ravi , Bikash Kumar Dey

We establish the randomized distributed function computation (RDFC) framework, in which a sender transmits just enough information for a receiver to generate a randomized function of the input data. Describing RDFC as a form of semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Onur Günlü

Network function computation is an active topic in network coding, with much recent progress for linear (over a finite field) computations over broadcast (LCBC) and multiple access (LCMAC) channels. Over a quantum multiple access channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

The work here studies the communication cost for a multi-server multi-task distributed computation framework, and does so for a broad class of functions and data statistics. Considering the framework where a user seeks the computation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Derya Malak , Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Berksan Serbetci , Petros Elia

We study communication over a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with two types of transmitters: Digital transmitters hold a message from a discrete set that needs to be communicated to the receiver with vanishing error probability.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Michael C. Gastpar , Jingge Zhu

This paper establishes the rate region for a class of source coding function computation setups where sources of information are available at the nodes of a tree and where a function of these sources must be computed at the root. The rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Milad Sefidgaran , Aslan Tchamkerten

Distributed consensus optimization has received considerable attention in recent years; several distributed consensus-based algorithms have been proposed for (nonsmooth) convex and (smooth) nonconvex objective functions. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

We are interested in how to best communicate a (usually real valued) source to a number of destinations (sinks) over a network with capacity constraints in a collective fidelity metric over all the sinks, a problem which we call joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nima Sarshar , Xiaolin Wu

Locally decodable channel codes form a special class of error-correcting codes with the property that the decoder is able to reconstruct any bit of the input message from querying only a few bits of a noisy codeword. It is well known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Ali Makhdoumi , Shao-Lun Huang , Muriel Medard , Yury Polyanskiy

This paper considers an $N$-server distributed computing setting with $K$ users requesting functions that are arbitrary multivariable polynomial evaluations of $L$ real (potentially non-linear) basis subfunctions, where each function output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ali Khalesi , Ahmad Tanha , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

Inspired by mobile satellite communication systems and the important and prevalent applications of computational tasks, we consider a distributed source coding model for compressing vector-linear functions, which consists of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xuan Guang , Xiufang Sun , Ruze Zhang

This paper considers the problem of minimum cost communication of correlated sources over a network with multiple sinks, which consists of distributed source coding followed by routing. We introduce a new routing paradigm called dispersive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 Kumar Viswanatha , Emrah Akyol , Kenneth Rose

We study the joint minimization of communication and computation costs in distributed computing, where a master node coordinates $N$ workers to evaluate a function over a library of $n$ files. Assuming that the function is decomposed into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Javad Maheri , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Petros Elia

This paper studies the problem of multi-agent computation under the differential privacy requirement of the agents' local datasets against eavesdroppers having node-to-node communications. We first propose for the network equipped with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Lei Wang , Yang Liu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

In multiple domains, statistical tasks are performed in distributed settings, with data split among several end machines that are connected to a fusion center. In various applications, the end machines have limited bandwidth and power, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Rodney Fonseca , Boaz Nadler

The paper investigates the distributed estimation problem under low bit rate communications. Based on the signal-comparison (SC) consensus protocol under binary-valued communications, a new consensus+innovations type distributed estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Jieming Ke , Xiaodong Lu , Yanlong Zhao , Ji-Feng Zhang

A receiver wants to compute a function of two correlated sources separately observed by two transmitters. One of the transmitters may send a possibly private message to the other transmitter in a cooperation phase before both transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Milad Sefidgaran , Aslan Tchamkerten