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Distributed computing enables scalable machine learning by distributing tasks across multiple nodes, but ensuring privacy in such systems remains a challenge. This paper introduces a novel private coded distributed computing model that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shanuja Sasi , Onur Günlü

This paper formulates a distributed computation problem, where a master asks $N$ distributed workers to compute a linearly separable function. The task function can be expressed as $K_c$ linear combinations of $K$ messages, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Motivated by mobile edge computing and wireless data centers, we study a wireless distributed computing framework where the distributed nodes exchange information over a wireless interference network. Our framework follows the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Fan Li , Jinyuan Chen , Zhiying Wang

This paper considers the MapReduce-like coded distributed computing framework originally proposed by Li et al., which uses coding techniques when distributed computing servers exchange their computed intermediate values, in order to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Coded distributed computing can reduce the communication load for distributed computing systems by introducing redundant computation and creating multicasting opportunities. However, the existing schemes require delicate data placement and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuhan Wang , Youlong Wu

MapReduce is a commonly used framework for executing data-intensive jobs on distributed server clusters. We introduce a variant implementation of MapReduce, namely "Coded MapReduce", to substantially reduce the inter-server communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider a distributed edge computing scenario consisting of several wireless nodes that are located over an area of interest. Specifically, some of the "master" nodes are tasked to sense the environment (e.g., by acquiring images or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Erdem Koyuncu

In recent years, coded distributed computing (CDC) has attracted significant attention, because it can efficiently facilitate many delay-sensitive computation tasks against unexpected latencies in distributed computing systems. Despite such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Baoqian Wang , Junfei Xie , Kejie Lu , Yan Wan , Shengli Fu

Semantic communication (SC) is recognized as a promising approach for enabling reliable communication with minimal data transfer while maintaining seamless connectivity for a group of wireless users. Unlocking the advantages of SC for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nitisha Singh , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Supporting multiple partial computations efficiently at each of the workers is a keystone in distributed coded computing in order to speed up computations and to fully exploit the resources of heterogeneous workers in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Burak Hasırcıoğlu , Deniz Gündüz

Recent work has precisely characterized the achievable trade-offs between three key information processing tasks---classical communication (generation or consumption), quantum communication (generation or consumption), and shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Mark M. Wilde , Patrick Hayden , Saikat Guha

With the advent of the modern mobile traffic, e.g., online gaming, augmented reality delivery and etc., a novel bidirectional computation task model where the input data of each task consists of two parts, one generated at the mobile device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yaping Sun , Lyutianyang Zhang , Zhiyong Chen , Sumit Roy

This work establishes the fundamental limits of the classical problem of multi-user distributed computing of linearly separable functions. In particular, we consider a distributed computing setting involving $L$ users, each requesting a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

We consider load balancing in a network of caching servers delivering contents to end users. Randomized load balancing via the so-called power of two choices is a well-known approach in parallel and distributed systems. In this framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Ali Pourmiri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

Consider a distributed computing system in which the worker nodes are connected over a shared wireless channel. Nodes can store a fraction of the data set over which computation needs to be carried out, and a Map-Shuffle-Reduce protocol is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sukjong Ha , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

This work addresses the problem of distributed computation of linearly separable functions, where a master node with access to $K$ datasets, employs $N$ servers to compute $L$ user-requested functions, each defined over the datasets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

Distributed computing, in which a resource-intensive task is divided into subtasks and distributed among different machines, plays a key role in solving large-scale problems. Coded computing is a recently emerging paradigm where redundancy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hoang Dau , Ryan Gabrys , Yu-Chih Huang , Chen Feng , Quang-Hung Luu , Eidah Alzahrani , Zahir Tari

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Tensor operations, such as matrix multiplication, are central to large-scale machine learning applications. For user-driven tasks these operations can be carried out on a distributed computing platform with a master server at the user side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Malihe Aliasgari , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer

In this paper, a framework for the analysis of the transmission-computation-energy tradeoff in wireless and fixed networks is introduced. The analysis of this tradeoff considers both the transmission energy as well as the energy consumed at…

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