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The current BigData era routinely requires the processing of large scale data on massive distributed computing clusters. Such large scale clusters often suffer from the problem of "stragglers", which are defined as slow or failed nodes. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Anindya Bijoy Das , Li Tang

Straggler nodes are well-known bottlenecks of distributed matrix computations which induce reductions in computation/communication speeds. A common strategy for mitigating such stragglers is to incorporate Reed-Solomon based MDS (maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

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

This paper considers the problem of calculating the matrix multiplication of two massive matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ distributedly. We provide a modulo technique that can be applied to coded distributed matrix multiplication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zhiquan Tan , Dingli Yuan , Zihao Wang , Zhongyi Huang

Coded computation is an emerging research area that leverages concepts from erasure coding to mitigate the effect of stragglers (slow nodes) in distributed computation clusters, especially for matrix computation problems. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Li Tang , Pascal O. Vontobel

Distributed computation is a framework used to break down a complex computational task into smaller tasks and distributing them among computational nodes. Erasure correction codes have recently been introduced and have become a popular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Royee Yosibash , Ram Zamir

We study the problem of computing matrix chain multiplications in a distributed computing cluster. In such systems, performance is often limited by the straggler problem, where the slowest worker dominates the overall computation latency.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebò

Tensors are a fundamental operation in distributed computing, \emph{e.g.,} machine learning, that are commonly distributed into multiple parallel tasks for large datasets. Stragglers and other failures can severely impact the overall…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Pedro Soto

Distributed matrix computations -- matrix-matrix or matrix-vector multiplications -- are well-recognized to suffer from the problem of stragglers (slow or failed worker nodes). Much of prior work in this area is (i) either sub-optimal in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Anindya B. Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , Namrata Vaswani

Existing approaches to distributed matrix computations involve allocating coded combinations of submatrices to worker nodes, to build resilience to stragglers and/or enhance privacy. In this study, we consider the challenge of preserving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Inexpensive cloud services, such as serverless computing, are often vulnerable to straggling nodes that increase end-to-end latency for distributed computation. We propose and implement simple yet principled approaches for straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vipul Gupta , Dominic Carrano , Yaoqing Yang , Vaishaal Shankar , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

In distributed computing systems slow working nodes, known as stragglers, can greatly extend finishing times. Coded computing is a technique that enables straggler-resistant computation. Most coded computing techniques presented to date…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

Distributed algorithms are often beset by the straggler effect, where the slowest compute nodes in the system dictate the overall running time. Coding-theoretic techniques have been recently proposed to mitigate stragglers via algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Jordan Ellenberg

Large-scale machine learning and data mining methods routinely distribute computations across multiple agents to parallelize processing. The time required for computation at the agents is affected by the availability of local resources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Busra Tegin , Eduin E. Hernandez , Stefano Rini , Tolga M. Duman

We propose two coding schemes for distributed matrix multiplication in the presence of stragglers. These coding schemes are adaptations of LT codes and Raptor codes to distributed matrix multiplication and are termed \emph{factored LT (FLT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan

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

In a distributed computing system for the master-worker framework, an erasure code can mitigate the effects of slow workers, also called stragglers. The distributed computing system combined with coding is referred to as coded computation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Minchul Kim , Heecheol Yang , Jungwoo Lee

Linear-scaling electronic-structure techniques, also called O(N) techniques, rely heavily on the multiplication of sparse matrices, where the sparsity arises from spatial cut-offs. In order to treat very large systems, the calculations must…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Bowler , T. Miyazaki , M. J. Gillan

Artificial intelligence workloads, especially transformer models, exhibit emergent sparsity in which computations perform selective sparse access to dense data. The workloads are inefficient on hardware designed for dense computations and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Brian Wheatman , Meghana Madhyastha , Randal Burns

In this paper, we propose CodedSketch, as a distributed straggler-resistant scheme to compute an approximation of the multiplication of two massive matrices. The objective is to reduce the recovery threshold, defined as the total number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali