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How can we optimally trade extra computing power to reduce the communication load in distributed computing? We answer this question by characterizing a fundamental tradeoff between computation and communication in distributed computing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

Large-scale distributed computing systems face two major bottlenecks that limit their scalability: straggler delay caused by the variability of computation times at different worker nodes and communication bottlenecks caused by shuffling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Modern applied optimization problems become more and more complex every day. Due to this fact, distributed algorithms that can speed up the process of solving an optimization problem through parallelization are of great importance. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Svetlana Tkachenko , Artem Andreev , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider a coded distributed computing problem in a ring-based communication network, where $N$ computing nodes are arranged in a ring topology and each node can only communicate with its neighbors within a constant distance $d$. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhenhao Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Qifu Tyler Sun , Youlong Wu

We consider a distributed computing framework where the distributed nodes have different communication capabilities, motivated by the heterogeneous networks in data centers and mobile edge computing systems. Following the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Nishant Shakya , Fan Li , Jinyuan Chen

Cooperative computation is a promising approach for localized data processing at the edge, e.g. for Internet of Things (IoT). Cooperative computation advocates that computationally intensive tasks in a device could be divided into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Yuxuan Xing , Hulya Seferoglu

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Consider a distributed computing system in which the worker nodes are connected over a shared wireless channel. Nodes can store a fraction of the data set over which computation needs to be carried out, and a Map-Shuffle-Reduce protocol is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sukjong Ha , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

With the increase in the amount of data and the expansion of model scale, distributed parallel training becomes an important and successful technique to address the optimization challenges. Nevertheless, although distributed stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shuheng Shen , Linli Xu , Jingchang Liu , Xianfeng Liang , Yifei Cheng

Modern computationally-heavy applications are often time-sensitive, demanding distributed strategies to accelerate them. On the other hand, distributed computing suffers from the bottleneck of slow workers in practice. Distributed coded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Médard , Shlomo Shamai

Performance of distributed graph processing systems significantly suffers from 'communication bottleneck' as a large number of messages are exchanged among servers at each step of the computation. Motivated by graph based MapReduce, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Saurav Prakash , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

The emerging large-scale and data-hungry algorithms require the computations to be delegated from a central server to several worker nodes. One major challenge in the distributed computations is to tackle delays and failures caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Muriel Médard

Coded Distributed Computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. in 2015 offers an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Distributed computing has become a common approach for large-scale computation of tasks due to benefits such as high reliability, scalability, computation speed, and costeffectiveness. However, distributed computing faces critical issues…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Nguyen Cong Luong , Zehui Xiong , Alia Asheralieva , Dusit Niyato , Cyril Leung , Chunyan Miao

The rise of the Internet of Things and edge computing has shifted computing resources closer to end-users, benefiting numerous delay-sensitive, computation-intensive applications. To speed up computation, distributed computing is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ke Ma , Junfei Xie

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We study the joint minimization of communication and computation costs in distributed computing, where a master node coordinates $N$ workers to evaluate a function over a library of $n$ files. Assuming that the function is decomposed into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Javad Maheri , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Petros Elia

Originated from distributed learning, federated learning enables privacy-preserved collaboration on a new abstracted level by sharing the model parameters only. While the current research mainly focuses on optimizing learning algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Cong Wang , Yuanyuan Yang , Pengzhan Zhou

The use of distributed optimization in machine learning can be motivated either by the resulting preservation of privacy or the increase in computational efficiency. On the one hand, training data might be stored across multiple devices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Vassilios Yfantis , Achim Wagner , Martin Ruskowski