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We consider a distributed computing system in which a master node coordinates $N$ workers to evaluate a function over $n$ input files, where this function accepts general decomposition. In particular, we focus on the general case where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Javad Maheri , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Petros Elia

This work explores a distributed computing setting where $K$ nodes are assigned fractions (subtasks) of a computational task in order to perform the computation in parallel. In this setting, a well-known main bottleneck has been the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Emanuele Parrinello , Eleftherios Lampiris , Petros Elia

A variety of large-scale machine learning problems can be cast as instances of constrained submodular maximization. Existing approaches for distributed submodular maximization have a critical drawback: The capacity - number of instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-01 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Andreas Krause

Network cache allocation and management are important aspects of the design of an Information-Centric Network (ICN), such as one based on Named Data Networking (NDN). We address the problem of optimal cache size allocation and content…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Van Sy Mai , Stratis Ioannidis , Davide Pesavento , Lotfi Benmohamed

We consider caching in cellular networks in which each base station is equipped with a cache that can store a limited number of files. The popularity of the files is known and the goal is to place files in the caches such that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Jasper Goseling , Berksan Serbetci

Centralized coded caching problem is studied for the two-user scenario, considering heterogeneous cache capacities at the users and private channels from the server to the users, in addition to a shared channel. Optimal caching and delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daming Cao , Deyao Zhang , Pengyao Chen , Nan Liu , Wei Kang , Deniz Gündüz

This study investigates the use of reinforcement learning to guide a general purpose cache manager decisions. Cache managers directly impact the overall performance of computer systems. They govern decisions about which objects should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Sami Alabed

Coded computing has proved to be useful in distributed computing. We have observed that almost all coded computing systems studied so far consider a setup of one master and some workers. However, recently emerging technologies such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Nastaran Abadi Khooshemehr , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

In this paper, the scheduling of downlink file transmission in one cell with the assistance of cache nodes with finite cache space is studied. Specifically, requesting users arrive randomly and the base station (BS) reactively multicasts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Ying Cui , Yi Gong , Haisheng Tan

We study the problem of caching optimization in heterogeneous networks with mutual interference and per-file rate constraints from an energy efficiency perspective. A setup is considered in which two cache-enabled transmitter nodes and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Estefanía Recayte , Giuseppe Cocco

Distributed computing enables large-scale computation tasks to be processed over multiple workers in parallel. However, the randomness of communication and computation delays across workers causes the straggler effect, which may degrade the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yuxuan Sun , Fan Zhang , Junlin Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Deniz Gündüz

Optimal transport has numerous applications, particularly in machine learning tasks involving generative models. In practice, the transportation process often encounters an information bottleneck, typically arising from the conversion of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiqiang Qu , Ruibin Li , Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Xinbing Wang

An emerging trend of next generation communication systems is to provide network edges with additional capabilities such as storage resources in the form of caches to reduce file delivery latency. To investigate this aspect, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Jaber Kakar , Alaa Alameer , Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin , Arogyaswami Paulraj

Classical coded caching setting avails each user to have one dedicated cache. This is generalized to a more general shared cache scheme and the exact expression for the worst case rate was derived in [E. Parrinello, A. Unsal, P. Elia,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Spandan Dey , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Caching is a technique to reduce the communication load in peak hours by prefetching contents during off-peak hours. An information-theoretic framework for coded caching was introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen in a recent work, where it was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuo Shao , Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Kai Zhang , Chao Tian

We study a generalization of the setting of regenerating codes, motivated by applications to storage systems consisting of clusters of storage nodes. There are $n$ clusters in total, with $m$ nodes per cluster. A data file is coded and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 N. Prakash , Vitaly Abdrashitov , Muriel Medard

To improve the utility of learning applications and render machine learning solutions feasible for complex applications, a substantial amount of heavy computations is needed. Thus, it is essential to delegate the computations among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

Coded caching leverages the differences in user cache memories to achieve gains that scale with the total cache size, alleviating network congestion due to high-quality content requests. Additionally, distributing transmitters over a wide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kagan Akcay , Eleftherios Lampiris , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

Distributed storage systems must handle both data heterogeneity, arising from non-uniform access demands, and device heterogeneity, caused by time-varying node reliability. In this paper, we study convertible codes, which enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Anina Gruica , Benjamin Jany , Stanislav Kruglik

Cache-aided content delivery is studied in a multi-server system with $P$ servers and $K$ users, each equipped with a local cache memory. In the delivery phase, each user connects randomly to any $\rho$ out of $P$ servers. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Nitish Mital , Deniz Gunduz , Cong Ling