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This paper describes a new algorithm called PAT, for Parallel Aggregated Trees, and which can be used to implement all-gather and reduce-scatter operations. This algorithm works on any number of ranks, has a logarithmic number of network…
We provide a new online learning algorithm which utilizes online passive-aggressive learning (PA) and total-error-rate minimization (TER) for binary classification. The PA learning establishes not only large margin training but also the…
In this paper, a reduced-rank scheme with joint iterative optimization is presented for direction of arrival estimation. A rank-reduction matrix and an auxiliary reduced-rank parameter vector are jointly optimized to calculate the output…
The reduce-scatter collective operation in which $p$ processors in a network of processors collectively reduce $p$ input vectors into a result vector that is partitioned over the processors is important both in its own right and as building…
The detection of sequential patterns in data is a basic functionality of modern data processing systems for complex event processing (CEP), OLAP, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). In practice, pattern matching is challenging, since…
The deployment of large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by their substantial computational and memory demands. While structured pruning presents a viable approach by eliminating entire network components, existing methods suffer…
In a previous paper it was shown that a machine learning regression problem can be solved within the framework of random function theory, with the optimal kernel analytically derived from symmetry and indifference principles and coinciding…
This study proposes a novel approach based on reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance the sorting efficiency of scrap metal using delta robots and a Pick-and-Place (PaP) process, widely used in the industry. We use three classical model-free…
Packing optimization is a prevalent problem that necessitates robust and efficient algorithms that are also simple to implement. One group of approaches is the raster methods, which rely on approximating the objects with pixelated…
In this paper, we consider the network slicing problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse…
We consider non-preemptive scheduling of MapReduce jobs with multiple tasks in the practical scenario where each job requires several map-reduce rounds. We seek to minimize the average weighted completion time and consider scheduling on…
Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is one of the most effective approaches to suppressing ground clutters in airborne radar systems. It basically takes two forms, i.e., full-dimension STAP (FD-STAP) and reduced-dimension STAP (RD-STAP).…
This study seeks to improve the throughput rates for shipping container terminals. In the United States, shipping ports link the domestic economy to global markets and are vital to sustain supply chain flow and economic stability. Maritime…
Load balance is important for MapReduce to reduce job duration, increase parallel efficiency, etc. Previous work focuses on coarse-grained scheduling. This study concerns fine-grained scheduling on MapReduce operations. Each operation…
We discuss a simple, binary tree-based algorithm for the collective allreduce (reduction-to-all, MPI_Allreduce) operation for parallel systems consisting of $p$ suitably interconnected processors. The algorithm can be doubly pipelined to…
Many state-of-the-art Segment Routing (SR) Traffic Engineering (TE) algorithms rely on Linear Program (LP)-based optimization. However, the poor scalability of the latter and the resulting high computation times impose severe restrictions…
Post-training of reasoning LLMs is a holistic process that typically consists of an offline SFT stage followed by an online reinforcement learning (RL) stage. However, SFT is often optimized in isolation to maximize SFT performance alone.…
Representation learning is a key technique in modern machine learning that enables models to identify meaningful patterns in complex data. However, different methods tend to extract distinct aspects of the data, and relying on a single…
Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to solve this class…
A new work has been proposed in this paper in order to overcome one of the main drawbacks that found in the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) systems, namely Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). Furthermore, this work will be…