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Coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains for cache networks compared to uncoded caching schemes. However, this substantial coding gain is attained at the cost of large delivery delay, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider a distributed source coding system in which several observations are communicated to the decoder using limited transmission rate. The observations must be separately coded. We introduce a robust distributed coding scheme which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Jun Chen , Toby Berger

In this paper, we study the application of spatially coupled LDPC codes with sub-block locality for space division multiplexing. We focus on the information exchange between the sub-blocks and compare decoding strategies with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Haizheng Li , Laurent Schmalen

Distributed multi-task learning (DMTL) effectively improves model generalization performance through the collaborative training of multiple related models. However, in large-scale learning scenarios, communication bottlenecks severely limit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Minquan Cheng , Yongkang Wang , Lingyu Zhang , Youlong Wu

Coded computation can be used to speed up distributed learning in the presence of straggling workers. Partial recovery of the gradient vector can further reduce the computation time at each iteration; however, this can result in biased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Emre Ozfatura , Baturalp Buyukates , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

Computation codes in network information theory are designed for the scenarios where the decoder is not interested in recovering the information sources themselves, but only a function thereof. K\"orner and Marton showed for distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Jingge Zhu , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

System performance for networks composed of interconnected subsystems can be increased if the traditionally separated subsystems are jointly optimized. Recently, parallel and distributed optimization methods have emerged as a powerful tool…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Valentin Nedelcu , Ioan Dumitrache

A myriad of applications ranging from engineering and scientific simulations, image and signal processing as well as high-sensitive data retrieval demand high processing power reaching up to teraflops for their efficient execution. While a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Patrick Mukala

Classical list scheduling is a very popular and efficient technique for scheduling jobs in parallel and distributed platforms. It is inherently centralized. However, with the increasing number of processors, the cost for managing a single…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Marc Tchiboukdjian , Nicolas Gast , Denis Trystram

Coded caching scheme is a promising technique to migrate the network burden in peak hours, which attains more prominent gains than the uncoded caching. The coded caching scheme can be classified into two types, namely, the centralized and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Lei Zheng , Qifa Yan , Qingchun Chen , Xiaohu Tang

Consider a distributed coding for computing problem with constant decoding locality, i.e., with a vanishing error probability, any single sample of the function can be approximately recovered by probing only constant number of compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin

In order to accommodate the ever-growing data from various, possibly independent, sources and the dynamic nature of data usage rates in practical applications, modern cloud data storage systems are required to be scalable, flexible, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

Coded caching schemes are used to reduce computer network traffics in peak time. To determine the efficiency of the schemes, \cite{MN} defined the information rate of the schemes and gave a construction of optimal coded caching schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ruizhong Wei

Distributed matrix computations over large clusters can suffer from the problem of slow or failed worker nodes (called stragglers) which can dominate the overall job execution time. Coded computation utilizes concepts from erasure coding to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy

In distributed synchronous gradient descent (GD) the main performance bottleneck for the per-iteration completion time is the slowest \textit{straggling} workers. To speed up GD iterations in the presence of stragglers, coded distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Baturalp Buyukates , Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

Conventional turbo codes (CTCs) usually employ a block-oriented interleaving so that each block is separately encoded and decoded. As interleaving and de-interleaving are performed within a block, the message-passing process associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Yan-Xiu Zheng , Yu T. Su

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

As numerous machine learning and other algorithms increase in complexity and data requirements, distributed computing becomes necessary to satisfy the growing computational and storage demands, because it enables parallel execution of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Pei Peng , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

Task graphs provide a simple way to describe scientific workflows (sets of tasks with dependencies) that can be executed on both HPC clusters and in the cloud. An important aspect of executing such graphs is the used scheduling algorithm.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Jakub Beránek , Stanislav Böhm , Vojtěch Cima

Conventional coded computing frameworks are predominantly tailored for structured computations, such as matrix multiplication and polynomial evaluation. Such tasks allow the reuse of tools and techniques from algebraic coding theory to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Parsa Moradi , Hanzaleh Akbarinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali