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Tensors are a fundamental operation in distributed computing, \emph{e.g.,} machine learning, that are commonly distributed into multiple parallel tasks for large datasets. Stragglers and other failures can severely impact the overall…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Pedro Soto

Distributed computation is a framework used to break down a complex computational task into smaller tasks and distributing them among computational nodes. Erasure correction codes have recently been introduced and have become a popular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Royee Yosibash , Ram Zamir

In this paper, we present secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) schemes over the complex numbers with good numerical stability and small mutual information leakage by utilizing polynomial interpolation with roots of unity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti

Coded distributed computing introduced by Li et al. in 2015 is an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. In particular, Li et al. show that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We construct polynomial codes for SDMM by studying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , David Karpuk

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

Coded distributed computing framework enables large-scale machine learning (ML) models to be trained efficiently in a distributed manner, while mitigating the straggler effect. In this work, we consider a multi-task assignment problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yuxuan Sun , Junlin Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Deniz Gündüz

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

Data privacy is an important issue for organizations and enterprises to securely outsource data storage, sharing, and computation on clouds / fogs. However, data encryption is complicated in terms of the key management and distribution;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Jenn-Bing Ong , Wee-Keong Ng , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chao Li , Jielin Yang , Sai None Myne , Huaxiong Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Parallel tensor network contraction algorithms have emerged as the pivotal benchmarks for assessing the classical limits of computation, exemplified by Google's demonstration of quantum supremacy through random circuit sampling. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jin Lee , Sofia Gonzalez-Garcia , Zheng Zhang , Haewon Jeong

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce have become essential for large-scale data processing by decomposing tasks across multiple nodes. The multi-access distributed computing (MADC) model further advances this paradigm by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shanuja Sasi

In this paper, we study the problem of \emph{private and secure distributed matrix multiplication (PSDMM)}, where a user having a private matrix $A$ and $N$ non-colluding servers sharing a library of $L$ ($L>1$) matrices $B^{(0)},…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Jie Li , Camilla Hollanti

Coded matrix multiplication is a technique to enable straggler-resistant multiplication of large matrices in distributed computing systems. In this paper, we first present a conceptual framework to represent the division of work amongst…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Matrix computations are a fundamental building-block of edge computing systems, with a major recent uptick in demand due to their use in AI/ML training and inference procedures. Existing approaches for distributing matrix computations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Large-scale distributed training is increasingly becoming communication bound. Many gradient compression algorithms have been proposed to reduce the communication overhead and improve scalability. However, it has been observed that in some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhuang Wang , Xinyu Wu , T. S. Eugene Ng

We propose two coded schemes for the distributed computing problem of multiplying a matrix by a set of vectors. The first scheme is based on partitioning the matrix into submatrices and applying maximum distance separable (MDS) codes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Albin Severinson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes

In this work, we consider the problem of secure multi-party computation (MPC), consisting of $\Gamma$ sources, each has access to a large private matrix, $N$ processing nodes or workers, and one data collector or master. The master is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Seyed Reza Hoseini Najarkolaei , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Mohammad Reza Aref

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

The distributed matrix multiplication problem with an unknown number of stragglers is considered, where the goal is to efficiently and flexibly obtain the product of two massive matrices by distributing the computation across N servers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Weiqi Li , Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed A. Jafar , Hamid Jafarkhani