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A central issue of distributed computing systems is how to optimally allocate computing and storage resources and design data shuffling strategies such that the total execution time for computing and data shuffling is minimized. This is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Shu-Jie Cao , Lihui Yi , Haoning Chen , Youlong Wu

We consider a coded distributed computing problem in a ring-based communication network, where $N$ computing nodes are arranged in a ring topology and each node can only communicate with its neighbors within a constant distance $d$. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhenhao Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Qifu Tyler Sun , Youlong Wu

We consider a MapReduce-type task running in a distributed computing model which consists of ${K}$ edge computing nodes distributed across the edge of the network and a Master node that assists the edge nodes to compute output functions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Haoning Chen , Youlong Wu

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper explores the multi-access distributed computing (MADC) model, a novel distributed computing framework where mapper and reducer nodes are distinct entities. Unlike traditional MapReduce frameworks, MADC leverages coding-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shanuja Sasi , Onur Günlü

This paper studies the distributed linearly separable computation problem, which is a generalization of many existing distributed computing problems such as distributed gradient descent and distributed linear transform. In this problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li \emph{et al.} can greatly reduce the communication load for MapReduce computing systems. In the general cascaded CDC with $K$ workers, $N$ input files and $Q$ Reduce functions, each input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu , Xianxian Li , Dianhua Wu

Today's data centers have an abundance of computing resources, hosting server clusters consisting of as many as tens or hundreds of thousands of machines. To execute a complex computing task over a data center, it is natural to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Placement delivery arrays for distributed computing (Comp-PDAs) have recently been proposed as a framework to construct universal computing schemes for MapReduce-like systems. In this work, we extend this concept to systems with straggling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Qifa Yan , Michèle Wigger , Sheng Yang , Xiaohu Tang

A critical challenge for modern system design is meeting the overwhelming performance, storage, and communication bandwidth demand of emerging applications within a tightly bound power budget. As both the time and power, hence the energy,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ismail Akturk , Ulya R. Karpuzcu

Performance of distributed graph processing systems significantly suffers from 'communication bottleneck' as a large number of messages are exchanged among servers at each step of the computation. Motivated by graph based MapReduce, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Saurav Prakash , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

Data shuffling between distributed cluster of nodes is one of the critical steps in implementing large-scale learning algorithms. Randomly shuffling the data-set among a cluster of workers allows different nodes to obtain fresh data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

Coded distributed computing (CDC) was introduced to greatly reduce the communication load for MapReduce computing systems. Such a system has $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ Reduce functions. Each input file is mapped by $r$ nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yingjie Cheng , Gaojun Luo , Xiwang Cao , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , San Ling

Semantic communications have emerged as a crucial research direction for future wireless communication networks. However, as wireless systems become increasingly complex, the demands for computation and communication resources in semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Xuyang Chen , Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Daquan Feng , Pei Xiao

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 2019-06-25 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Computation codes in network information theory are designed for the scenarios where the decoder is not interested in recovering the information sources themselves, but only a function thereof. K\"orner and Marton showed for distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Jingge Zhu , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

This work explores a distributed computing setting where $K$ nodes are assigned fractions (subtasks) of a computational task in order to perform the computation in parallel. In this setting, a well-known main bottleneck has been the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Emanuele Parrinello , Eleftherios Lampiris , Petros Elia

A coded distributed computing (CDC) system aims to reduce the communication load in the MapReduce framework. Such a system has $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ Reduce functions. Each input file is mapped by $r$ nodes and each Reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yingjie Cheng , Gaojun Luo , Xiwang Cao , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , San Ling

In this work, we consider the problem of distributed computing of functions of structured sources, focusing on the classical setting of two correlated sources and one user that seeks the outcome of the function while benefiting from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Derya Malak

Li {\it et al}. introduced coded distributed computing (CDC) scheme to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. They also proposed cascaded CDC schemes where each output function is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Jing Jiang , Lingxiao Qu