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Gradient coding is a distributed computing technique for computing gradient vectors over large datasets by outsourcing partial computations to multiple workers, typically connected directly to the server. In this work, we investigate…

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Large scale clusters leveraging distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce routinely process data that are on the orders of petabytes or more. The sheer size of the data precludes the processing of the data on a single computer. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Several network communication problems are highly related such as coded caching and distributed computation. The centralized coded caching focuses on reducing the network burden in peak times in a wireless network system and the coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Min Xu , Zixiang Xu , Gennian Ge , Min-Qian Liu

We consider a distributed source coding system in which several observations are communicated to the decoder using limited transmission rate. The observations must be separately coded. We introduce a robust distributed coding scheme which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Jun Chen , Toby Berger

We study the expected completion time of some recently proposed algorithms for distributed computing which redundantly assign computing tasks to multiple machines in order to tolerate a certain number of machine failures. We analytically…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin

In this work, we consider the problem of distributed computing of functions of structured sources, focusing on the classical setting of two correlated sources and one user that seeks the outcome of the function while benefiting from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Derya Malak

Conventional coded computing frameworks are predominantly tailored for structured computations, such as matrix multiplication and polynomial evaluation. Such tasks allow the reuse of tools and techniques from algebraic coding theory to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Parsa Moradi , Hanzaleh Akbarinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

In recent years, coded distributed computing (CDC) has attracted significant attention, because it can efficiently facilitate many delay-sensitive computation tasks against unexpected latencies in distributed computing systems. Despite such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Baoqian Wang , Junfei Xie , Kejie Lu , Yan Wan , Shengli Fu

Distributed computing, in which a resource-intensive task is divided into subtasks and distributed among different machines, plays a key role in solving large-scale problems. Coded computing is a recently emerging paradigm where redundancy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hoang Dau , Ryan Gabrys , Yu-Chih Huang , Chen Feng , Quang-Hung Luu , Eidah Alzahrani , Zahir Tari

We consider the problem of massive matrix multiplication, which underlies many data analytic applications, in a large-scale distributed system comprising a group of worker nodes. We target the stragglers' delay performance bottleneck, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

In distributed computing systems with stragglers, various forms of redundancy can improve the average delay performance. We study the optimal replication of data in systems where the job execution time is a stochastically decreasing and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin

In this work, we propose a distributed rate allocation algorithm that minimizes the average decoding delay for multimedia clients in inter-session network coding systems. We consider a scenario where the users are organized in a mesh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

The focus of this paper is on the analysis and design of Raptor codes using a multi-edge framework. In this regard, we first represent the Raptor code as a multi-edge type low-density parity-check (METLDPC) code. This MET representation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sachini Jayasooriya , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

Distributed source coding schemes are typically based on the use of channels codes as source codes. In this paper we propose a new paradigm, termed "distributed arithmetic coding", which exploits the fact that arithmetic codes are good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-11 M. Grangetto , E. Magli , G. Olmo

The performance of large-scale distributed compute systems is adversely impacted by stragglers when the execution time of a job is uncertain. To manage stragglers, we consider a multi-fork approach for job scheduling, where additional…

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This paper focuses on mitigating the impact of stragglers in distributed learning system. Unlike the existing results designed for a fixed number of stragglers, we developed a new scheme called Adaptive Gradient Coding(AGC) with flexible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Hankun Cao , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Guojun Han

This paper proposes a prediction-based gradient compression method for distributed learning with event-triggered communication. Our goal is to reduce the amount of information transmitted from the distributed agents to the parameter server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Adrian Edin , Zheng Chen , Michel Kieffer , Mikael Johansson

Resilience against stragglers is a critical element of prediction serving systems, tasked with executing inferences on input data for a pre-trained machine-learning model. In this paper, we propose NeRCC, as a general straggler-resistant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Parsa Moradi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

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

In a distributed computing system operating according to the map-shuffle-reduce framework, coding data prior to storage can be useful both to reduce the latency caused by straggling servers and to decrease the inter-server communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone