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Within distributed learning, workers typically compute gradients on their assigned dataset chunks and send them to the parameter server (PS), which aggregates them to compute either an exact or approximate version of $\nabla L$ (gradient of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Ruoyu Meng , Vrinda S. Girimaji

This paper develops coding techniques to reduce the running time of distributed learning tasks. It characterizes the fundamental tradeoff to compute gradients (and more generally vector summations) in terms of three parameters: computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-13 Min Ye , Emmanuel Abbe

In this paper, we consider a decentralized learning problem in the presence of stragglers. Although gradient coding techniques have been developed for distributed learning to evade stragglers, where the devices send encoded gradients with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Chengxi Li , Mikael Skoglund

Gradient coding is a distributed computing technique aiming to provide robustness against slow or non-responsive computing nodes, known as stragglers, while balancing the computational load for responsive computing nodes. Among existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxin Jiang , Wenqin Zhang , Lele Wang

Slow running or straggler tasks can significantly reduce computation speed in distributed computation. Recently, coding-theory-inspired approaches have been applied to mitigate the effect of straggling, through embedding redundancy in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-24 Can Karakus , Yifan Sun , Suhas Diggavi , Wotao Yin

Today's massively-sized datasets have made it necessary to often perform computations on them in a distributed manner. In principle, a computational task is divided into subtasks which are distributed over a cluster operated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Wael Halbawi , Navid Azizan-Ruhi , Fariborz Salehi , Babak Hassibi

Gradient coding is a coding theoretic framework to provide robustness against slow or unresponsive machines, known as stragglers, in distributed machine learning applications. Recently, Kadhe et al. proposed a gradient code based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Animesh Sakorikar , Lele Wang

A major hurdle in machine learning is scalability to massive datasets. Approaches to overcome this hurdle include compression of the data matrix and distributing the computations. \textit{Leverage score sampling} provides a compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Neophytos Charalambides , Mert Pilanci , Alfred O. Hero

This paper considers the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of stragglers. For this problem, DL methods based on gradient coding have been widely investigated, which redundantly distribute the training data to the workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Chengxi Li , Mikael Skoglund

This paper focuses on mitigating the impact of stragglers in distributed learning system. Unlike the existing results designed for a fixed number of stragglers, we developed a new scheme called Adaptive Gradient Coding(AGC) with flexible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Hankun Cao , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Guojun Han

Coded computation is a method to mitigate "stragglers" in distributed computing systems through the use of error correction coding that has lately received significant attention. First used in vector-matrix multiplication, the range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark Draper

A major hurdle in machine learning is scalability to massive datasets. One approach to overcoming this is to distribute the computational tasks among several workers. \textit{Gradient coding} has been recently proposed in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Neophytos Charalambides , Hessam Mahdavifar , Alfred O. Hero

In cloud computing systems slow processing nodes, often referred to as "stragglers", can significantly extend the computation time. Recent results have shown that error correction coding can be used to reduce the effect of stragglers. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

The widespread adoption of distributed learning to train a global model from local data has been hindered by the challenge posed by stragglers. Recent attempts to mitigate this issue through gradient coding have proved difficult due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Tingting Yang , Xinghan Wang , Jiahong Ning , Yang Yang

We consider a distributed learning problem in which the computation is carried out on a system consisting of a master node and multiple worker nodes. In such systems, the existence of slow-running machines called stragglers will cause a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Shunsuke Horii , Takahiro Yoshida , Manabu Kobayashi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

We propose a communication-efficient optimally structured gradient coding scheme to jointly address straggler resilience and communication efficiency in heterogeneous distributed learning. By establishing a unified framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

We consider a generalization of the gradient coding framework where a dataset is divided across $n$ workers and each worker transmits to a master node one or more linear combinations of the gradients over its assigned data subsets. Unlike…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar , V. Lalitha , Nikhil Karamchandani

Performance of distributed optimization and learning systems is bottlenecked by "straggler" nodes and slow communication links, which significantly delay computation. We propose a distributed optimization framework where the dataset is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Can Karakus , Yifan Sun , Suhas Diggavi , Wotao Yin

In this paper, we consider a large network containing many regions such that each region is equipped with a worker with some data processing and communication capability. For such a network, some workers may become stragglers due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Qiyu Sun

Distributed gradient descent (DGD) is an efficient way of implementing gradient descent (GD), especially for large data sets, by dividing the computation tasks into smaller subtasks and assigning to different computing servers (CSs) to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus