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Computationally intensive decoding procedures--including search, reranking, and self-critique--can improve the quality of language model (LM) outputs in problems spanning code generation, numerical reasoning, and dialog. Existing work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Mehul Damani , Idan Shenfeld , Andi Peng , Andreea Bobu , Jacob Andreas

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

A novel fault-tolerant computation technique based on array Belief Propagation (BP)-decodable XOR (BP-XOR) codes is proposed for distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. The proposed scheme is shown to be configurable and suited for modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Suayb S. Arslan

Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute a linearly separable function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims to alleviate the bottlenecks of stragglers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Ordered statistics decoding has been instrumental in addressing decoding failures that persist after normalized min-sum decoding in short low-density parity-check codes. Despite its benefits, the high computational complexity of effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guangwen Li , Xiao Yu

This paper proposes a distributed design method of controllers having a glocal (global/local) information structure for large-scale network systems. Distributed design, independent design of all subcontrollers that constitute a structured…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Hampei Sasahara , Takayuki Ishizaki , Jun-ichi Imura , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson

Combinatorial optimization problems are considered to be an application, where quantum computing can have transformative impact. In the industrial context, job shop scheduling problems that aim at finding the optimal schedule for a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Mathias Schmid , Sarah Braun , Rudolf Sollacher , Michael J. Hartmann

In this paper, we propose an optimally structured gradient coding scheme to mitigate the straggler problem in distributed learning. Conventional gradient coding methods often assume homogeneous straggler models or rely on excessive data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

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

Sparse random linear network coding (SRLNC) is an attractive technique proposed in the literature to reduce the decoding complexity of random linear network coding. Recognizing the fact that the existing SRLNC schemes are not efficient in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Raman Yazdani , Masoud Ardakani

Real-time scheduling and locking protocols are fundamental facilities to construct time-critical systems. For parallel real-time tasks, predictable locking protocols are required when concurrent sub-jobs mutually exclusive access to shared…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Maolin Yang , Zewei Chen , Xu Jiang , Nan Guan , Hang Lei

Network slicing has emerged as an integral concept in 5G, aiming to partition the physical network infrastructure into isolated slices, customized for specific applications. We theoretically formulate the key performance metrics of an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Vipindev Adat Vasudevan , Benjamin D. Kim , Shruti Siva , Jennifer Kim , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Médard

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

The proliferation of multi-core and multiprocessor-based computer systems has led to explosive development of parallel applications and hence the need for efficient schedulers. In this paper, we study hierarchical scheduling for malleable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Yangjie Cao , Hongyang Sun , Depei Qian , Weiguo Wu

Computationally intensive distributed and parallel computing is often bottlenecked by a small set of slow workers known as stragglers. In this paper, we utilize the emerging idea of "coded computation" to design a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Yaoqing Yang , Pulkit Grover , Soummya Kar

Coded distributed computing can alleviate the communication load by leveraging the redundant storage and computation resources with coding techniques in distributed computing. In this paper, we study a MapReduce-type distributed computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Meixia Tao , Qin Huang

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

Reliability in distributed storage systems has typically focused on the design and deployment of data replication or erasure coding techniques. Although some scenarios have considered the use of replication for hot data and erasure coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel E. Lucani , Marcell Fehér

Computational storage, known as a solution to significantly reduce the latency by moving data-processing down to the data storage, has received wide attention because of its potential to accelerate data-driven devices at the edge. To meet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

In large scale distributed computing systems, communication overhead is one of the major bottlenecks. In the map-shuffle-reduce framework, which is one of the major distributed computing frameworks, the communication load among servers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shunsuke Horii