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Information theoretically secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a central primitive of modern cryptography. However, relatively little is known about the communication complexity of this primitive. In this work, we develop powerful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

This thesis is concerned with the design of distributed algorithms for solving optimization problems. We consider networks where each node has exclusive access to a cost function, and design algorithms that make all nodes cooperate to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 João F. C. Mota

This paper considers distributed nonconvex optimization with the cost functions being distributed over agents. Noting that information compression is a key tool to reduce the heavy communication load for distributed algorithms as agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

The focus of this paper is on {\em quantum distributed} computation, where we investigate whether quantum communication can help in {\em speeding up} distributed network algorithms. Our main result is that for certain fundamental network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Michael Elkin , Hartmut Klauck , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan

Communication topology is a crucial part of a distributed control implementation for cyber-physical systems, yet is typically treated as a constraint within control design problems rather than a design variable. We propose a data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Michael Nestor , Fei Teng

In this chapter we will argue that studying such multi-scale multi-science systems gives rise to inherently hybrid models containing many different algorithms best serviced by different types of computing environments (ranging from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Hoekstra , S. F. Portegies Zwart , M. Bubak , P. M. A. Sloot

We develop an integrated Multi-Port Concurrent Communication Divisible Load Theory (MPCC-DLT) framework for relay-centric distributed satellite systems (DSS), capturing concurrent data dissemination, parallel computation, and result return…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bharadwaj Veeravalli

We present new distributed quantum algorithms for fundamental distributed computing problems, namely, leader election, broadcast, Minimum Spanning Tree (MST), and Breadth-First Search (BFS) tree, in arbitrary networks. These algorithms are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Fabien Dufoulon , Frédéric Magniez , Gopal Pandurangan

We investigate distributed online convex optimization with compressed communication, where $n$ learners connected by a network collaboratively minimize a sequence of global loss functions using only local information and compressed data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sifan Yang , Wenhao Yang , Wei Jiang , Lijun Zhang

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to solve this class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We consider the problem where $M$ agents interact with $M$ identical and independent environments with $S$ states and $A$ actions using reinforcement learning for $T$ rounds. The agents share their data with a central server to minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Mridul Agarwal , Bhargav Ganguly , Vaneet Aggarwal

In this paper, we study the problem of approximating the minimum cut in a distributed message-passing model, the CONGEST model. The minimum cut problem has been well-studied in the context of centralized algorithms. However, there were no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Hsin-Hao Su

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

Parallel matrix multiplication is one of the most studied fundamental problems in distributed and high performance computing. We obtain a new parallel algorithm that is based on Strassen's fast matrix multiplication and minimizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Grey Ballard , James Demmel , Olga Holtz , Benjamin Lipshitz , Oded Schwartz

Federated learning is a training paradigm according to which a server-based model is cooperatively trained using local models running on edge devices and ensuring data privacy. These devices exchange information that induces a substantial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-06 José Ángel Morell , Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi , Francisco Chicano , Gabriel Luque , Enrique Alba

We consider directed acyclic networks with multiple sources and multiple terminals where each source generates one i.i.d. random process over an abelian group and all the terminals want to recover the sum of these random processes. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Brijesh Kumar Rai , Bikash Kumar Dey , Sagar Shenvi

Reducing communication - either between levels of a memory hierarchy or between processors over a network - is a key component of performance optimization (in both time and energy) for many problems, including dense linear algebra, particle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Grace Dinh , James Demmel

Round complexity is an extensively studied metric of distributed algorithms. In contrast, our knowledge of the \emph{message complexity} of distributed computing problems and its relationship (if any) with round complexity is still quite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Fabien Dufoulon , Shreyas Pai , Gopal Pandurangan , Sriram Pemmaraju , Peter Robinson

In the distributed triangle detection problem, we have an $n$-vertex network $G=(V,E)$ with one player for each vertex of the graph who sees the edges incident on the vertex. The players communicate in synchronous rounds using the edges of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

In 1981 Hong and Kung proved a lower bound on the amount of communication needed to perform dense, matrix-multiplication using the conventional $O(n^3)$ algorithm, where the input matrices were too large to fit in the small, fast memory. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Grey Ballard , James Demmel , Olga Holtz , Oded Schwartz