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The regression of a functional response on a set of scalar predictors can be a challenging task, especially if there is a large number of predictors, or the relationship between those predictors and the response is nonlinear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-24 Sidi Wu , Cédric Beaulac , Jiguo Cao

Automating the solutions of multiple network information theory problems, stretching from fundamental concerns such as determining all information inequalities and the limitations of linear codes, to applied ones such as designing coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Jayant Apte , John MacLaren Walsh

Coded caching has the potential to greatly reduce network traffic by leveraging the cheap and abundant storage available in end-user devices so as to create multicast opportunities in the delivery phase. In the seminal work by Maddah-Ali…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

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

Learning representations of nodes in a low dimensional space is a crucial task with numerous interesting applications in network analysis, including link prediction, node classification, and visualization. Two popular approaches for this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Abdulkadir Celikkanat , Yanning Shen , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Deep learning has received much attention lately due to the impressive empirical performance achieved by training algorithms. Consequently, a need for a better theoretical understanding of these problems has become more evident in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daniel Bienstock , Gonzalo Muñoz , Sebastian Pokutta

The problems associated with scaling involve active and challenging research topics in the area of artificial intelligence. The purpose is to solve real world problems by means of AI technologies, in cases where the complexity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Scott A. Musman , L. W. Chang

The distributed linearly separable computation problem finds extensive applications across domains such as distributed gradient coding, distributed linear transform, real-time rendering, etc. In this paper, we investigate this problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haoning Chen , Minquan Cheng , Zhenhao Huang , Youlong Wu

We explore a simple mathematical model of network computation, based on Markov chains. Similar models apply to a broad range of computational phenomena, arising in networks of computers, as well as in genetic, and neural nets, in social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-04-18 Dusko Pavlovic

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

We consider the problem of linear network coding over communication networks, representable by directed acyclic graphs, with multiple groupcast sessions: the network comprises of multiple destination nodes, each desiring messages from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Abhik Kumar Das , Siddhartha Banerjee , Sriram Vishwanath

This paper studies the master-worker distributed linearly separable computation problem, where the considered computation task, referred to as linearly separable function, is a typical linear transform model widely used in cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenbo Huang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

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

We study the use of linear codes for network computing in single-receiver networks with various classes of target functions of the source messages. Such classes include reducible, injective, semi-injective, and linear target functions over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Massimo Franceschetti , Nikhil Karamchandani , Kenneth Zeger

In this paper, we consider different aspects of the network functional compression problem where computation of a function (or, some functions) of sources located at certain nodes in a network is desired at receiver(s). The rate region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Soheil Feizi , Muriel Medard

Telecommunication networks frequently face technological advancements and need to upgrade their infrastructure. Adapting legacy networks to the latest technology requires synchronized technicians responsible for migrating the equipment. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Maryam Daryalal , Hamed Pouya

We propose a novel technique for constructing a graph representation of a code through which we establish a significant connection between the service rate problem and the well-known fractional matching problem. Using this connection, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Emina Soljanin , Alex Sprintson

We introduce the new concept of computation coding. Similar to how rate-distortion theory is concerned with the lossy compression of data, computation coding deals with the lossy computation of functions. Particularizing to linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Ralf Müller , Bernhard Gäde , Ali Bereyhi

The connection between index coding and matroid theory have been well studied in the recent past. El Rouayheb et al. established a connection between multi linear representation of matroids and wireless index coding. Muralidharan and Rajan…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Many decision-making problems in engineering applications such as transportation, power system and operations research require repeatedly solving large-scale linear programming problems with a large number of different inputs. For example,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Yize Chen , Baosen Zhang