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Coding theoretic techniques have been proposed for synchronous Gradient Descent (GD) on multiple servers to mitigate stragglers. These techniques provide the flexibility that the job is complete when any $k$ out of $n$ servers finish their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shanuja Sasi , V. Lalitha , Vaneet Aggarwal , B. Sundar Rajan

This article presents the first mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)-based iterative algorithm to solve factorable mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) with bounded, differentiable periodic functions to global optimality with an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Christopher Montez , Sujeevraja Sanjeevi , Kaarthik Sundar

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

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

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin

In this paper we deal with a network of agents seeking to solve in a distributed way Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with a coupling constraint (modeling a limited shared resource) and local constraints. MILPs are NP-hard problems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Multidimensional Retiming is one of the most important optimization techniques to improve timing parameters of nested loops. It consists in exploring the iterative and recursive structures of loops to redistribute computation nodes on cycle…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Yaroub Elloumi , Mohamed Akil , Mohamed Hedi Bedoui

This paper studies delayed stochastic algorithms for weakly convex optimization in a distributed network with workers connected to a master node. Recently, Xu et al. 2022 showed that an inertial stochastic subgradient method converges at a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Wenzhi Gao , Qi Deng

While performing distributed computations in today's cloud-based platforms, execution speed variations among compute nodes can significantly reduce the performance and create bottlenecks like stragglers. Coded computation techniques…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Krishna Giri Narra , Zhifeng Lin , Mehrdad Kiamari , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

When gradient descent (GD) is scaled to many parallel workers for large scale machine learning problems, its per-iteration computation time is limited by the straggling workers. Straggling workers can be tolerated by assigning redundant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

Coded distributed computing was recently introduced to mitigate the effect of stragglers on distributed computing. This paper combines ideas of approximate computing with coded computing to further accelerate computation. We propose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Shahrzad Kiani , Stark C. Draper

One of the most widely used methods for solving large-scale stochastic optimization problems is distributed asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (DASGD), a family of algorithms that result from parallelizing stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Zhengyuan Zhou , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Nicholas Bambos , Peter W. Glynn , Yinyu Ye

We consider the problem of evaluating arbitrary multivariate polynomials over a massive dataset containing multiple inputs, on a distributed computing system with a master node and multiple worker nodes. Generalized Lagrange Coded Computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jinbao Zhu , Hengxuan Tang , Songze Li , Yijia Chang

In this paper we investigate how standard nonlinear programming algorithms can be used to solve constrained optimization problems in a distributed manner. The optimization setup consists of a set of agents interacting through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Ion Matei , John S. Baras

Modern distributed computation infrastructures are often plagued by unavailabilities such as failing or slow servers. These unavailabilities adversely affect the tail latency of computation in distributed infrastructures. The simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Michael Rudow , K. V. Rashmi , Venkatesan Guruswami

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 the data shuffling problem in a distributed learning system, in which a master node is connected to a set of worker nodes, via a shared link, in order to communicate a set of files to the worker nodes. The master node has access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Adel Elmahdy , Soheil Mohajer

Recently, reducing communication time between machines becomes the main focus of distributed data mining. Previous methods propose to make workers do more computation locally before aggregating local solutions in the server such that fewer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

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

Several classic problems in graph processing and computational geometry are solved via incremental algorithms, which split computation into a series of small tasks acting on shared state, which gets updated progressively. While the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Alistarh , Nikita Koval , Giorgi Nadiradze