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Optimization results are one method for understanding neural computation from Nature's perspective and for defining the physical limits on neuron-like engineering. Earlier work looks at individual properties or performance criteria and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-21 William B Levy , Toby Berger , Mustafa Sungkar

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 investigate the problem of online learning, which has gained significant attention in recent years due to its applicability in a wide range of fields from machine learning to game theory. Specifically, we study the online optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

The penalty incurred by imposing a finite delay constraint in lossless source coding of a memoryless source is investigated. It is well known that for the so-called block-to-variable and variable-to-variable codes, the redundancy decays at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ofer Shayevitz , Eado Meron , Meir Feder , Ram Zamir

Redundancy is abundant in Fog networks (i.e., many computing and storage points) and grows linearly with network size. We demonstrate the transformational role of coding in Fog computing for leveraging such redundancy to substantially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper describes universal lossless coding strategies for compressing sources on countably infinite alphabets. Classes of memoryless sources defined by an envelope condition on the marginal distribution provide benchmarks for coding…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Stéphane Boucheron , Aurélien Garivier , Elisabeth Gassiat

It is known that for memoryless sources, the average and maximal redundancy of fixed-to-variable length codes, such as the Shannon and Huffman codes, exhibit two modes of behavior for long blocks. It either converges to a limit or it has an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-07 Neri Merhav , Wojciech Szpankowski

Redundancy for straggler mitigation, originally in data download and more recently in distributed computing context, has been shown to be effective both in theory and practice. Analysis of systems with redundancy has drawn significant…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Mehmet Fatih Aktas , Pei Peng , Emina Soljanin

The interest in channel models in which the data is sent as an unordered set of binary strings has increased lately, due to emerging applications in DNA storage, among others. In this paper we analyze the minimal redundancy of binary codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Jehoshua Bruck

In cloud computing systems, assigning a task to multiple servers and waiting for the earliest copy to finish is an effective method to combat the variability in response time of individual servers, and reduce latency. But adding redundancy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Gauri Joshi , Emina Soljanin , Gregory Wornell

A new run length encoding algorithm for lossless data compression that exploits positional redundancy by representing data in a two-dimensional model of concentric circles is presented. This visual transform enables detection of runs (each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Pranav Venkatram

In this work, lossy distributed compression of pairs of correlated sources is considered. Conventionally, Shannon's random coding arguments -- using randomly generated unstructured codebooks whose blocklength is taken to be asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

This paper introduces REDC, a comprehensive strategy for offloading computational tasks within mobile Edge Networks (EN) to Distributed Computing (DC) after Rateless Encoding (RE). Despite the efficiency, reliability, and scalability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhongfu Guo , Xinsheng Ji , Wei You , Yu Zhao , Bai Yi , Lingwei Wang

Reasoning-capable large language models solve hard problems by emitting long chains of thought, paying heavily in latency, GPU time, and energy. Casual inspection of their traces reveals extensive reformulation, verification, and circular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xinkai You , Wenjing Yan , Xin Wang

Low latency is critical for interactive networked applications. But while we know how to scale systems to increase capacity, reducing latency --- especially the tail of the latency distribution --- can be much more difficult. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Ashish Vulimiri , P. Brighten Godfrey , Radhika Mittal , Justine Sherry , Sylvia Ratnasamy , Scott Shenker

This report considers the problem of resilient distributed optimization and stochastic learning in a server-based architecture. The system comprises a server and multiple agents, where each agent has its own local cost function. The agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Shuo Liu , Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

[Draft] In this paper, the redundancy of Slepian Wolf coding is revisited. Applying the random binning and converse technique in \cite{yang}, the same results in \cite{he} are obtained with much simpler proofs. Moreover, our results reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Duo Xu

This paper explores feedback systems using incremental redundancy (IR) with noiseless transmitter confirmation (NTC). For IR-NTC systems based on {\em finite-length} codes (with blocklength $N$) and decoding attempts only at {\em certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Tsung-Yi Chen , Adam R. Williamson , Nambi Seshadri , Richard D. Wesel

Function-correcting codes (FCCs) protect specific function evaluations of a message against errors. This condition imposes a less stringent distance requirement than classical error-correcting codes (ECCs), allowing for reduced redundancy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

We give the first linear-time counting algorithm for processes in anonymous 1-interval-connected dynamic networks with a leader. As a byproduct, we are able to compute in $3n$ rounds every function that is deterministically computable in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Giovanni Viglietta