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Gradient coding is a distributed computing technique aiming to provide robustness against slow or non-responsive computing nodes, known as stragglers, while balancing the computational load for responsive computing nodes. Among existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxin Jiang , Wenqin Zhang , Lele Wang

Because of their excellent asymptotic and finite-length performance, spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check codes that is gaining increasing attention. Multi-dimensional (MD) SC codes are constructed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Canberk İrimağzı , Ata Tanrıkulu , Ahmed Hareedy

The code generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the field of software development. However, this advancement also presents significant security challenges, as LLM-generated code often contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rupam Patir , Keyan Guo , Haipeng Cai , Hongxin Hu

The problem of distributed matrix multiplication with straggler tolerance over finite fields is considered, focusing on field sizes for which previous solutions were not applicable (for instance, the field of two elements). We employ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Adrián Fidalgo-Díaz , Umberto Martínez-Peñas

We consider the problem of designing rateless coded private distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ and wants to hire worker nodes to help compute the multiplication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Symbol-pair codes introduced by Cassuto and Blaum in 2010 are designed to protect against the pair errors in symbol-pair read channels. One of the central themes in symbol-error correction is the construction of maximal distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Xiuxin Tang , Rong Luo

We consider the problem of evaluating arbitrary multivariate polynomials over a massive dataset containing multiple inputs, on a distributed computing system with a master node and multiple worker nodes. Generalized Lagrange Coded Computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jinbao Zhu , Hengxuan Tang , Songze Li , Yijia Chang

Matrix multiplication over the real field constitutes a foundational operation in the training of deep learning models, serving as a computational cornerstone for both forward and backward propagation processes. However, the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

We extend coded distributed computing over finite fields to allow the number of workers to be larger than the field size. We give codes that work for fully general matrix multiplication and show that in this case we serendipitously have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Gretchen L. Matthews , Pedro Soto

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

We give new combinatorial constructions for codes providing authentication and secrecy for equiprobable source probability distributions. In particular, we construct an infinite class of optimal authentication codes which are multiple-fold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Michael Huber

A majority of coded matrix-matrix computation literature has broadly focused in two directions: matrix partitioning for computing a single computation task and batch processing of multiple distinct computation tasks. While these works…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Lev Tauz , Lara Dolecek

This paper has two contributions. First, we propose a novel coded matrix multiplication technique called Generalized PolyDot codes that advances on existing methods for coded matrix multiplication under storage and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sanghamitra Dutta , Ziqian Bai , Haewon Jeong , Tze Meng Low , Pulkit Grover

We consider private polynomial computation (PPC) over noncolluding coded databases. In such a setting a user wishes to compute a multivariate polynomial of degree at most $g$ over $f$ variables (or messages) stored in multiple databases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

Using well-known mathematical problems for encryption is a widely used technique because they are computationally hard and provide security against potential attacks on the encryption method. The subset sum problem (SSP) can be defined as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yair Zadok , Nadav Voloch , Noa Voloch-Bloch , Maor Meir Hajaj

This paper introduces an efficient first-order method based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve semidefinite programs (SDPs) arising from sum-of-squares (SOS) programming. We exploit the sparsity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We consider a problem, which we call secure grouping, of dividing a number of parties into some subsets (groups) in the following manner: Each party has to know the other members of his/her group, while he/she may not know anything about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yuji Hashimoto , Kazumasa Shinagawa , Koji Nuida , Masaki Inamura , Goichiro Hanaoka

We study the numerical stability of polynomial based encoding methods, which has emerged to be a powerful class of techniques for providing straggler and fault tolerance in the area of coded computing. Our contributions are as follows: 1)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Mohammad Fahim , Viveck R. Cadambe

We advance the Cohn-Umans framework for developing fast matrix multiplication algorithms. We introduce, analyze, and search for a new subclass of strong uniquely solvable puzzles (SUSP), which we call simplifiable SUSPs. We show that these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Matthew Anderson , Vu Le

We consider the setting of a master server who possesses confidential data (genomic, medical data, etc.) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The master wants to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb