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Distributed matrix multiplication is widely used in several scientific domains. It is well recognized that computation times on distributed clusters are often dominated by the slowest workers (called stragglers). Recent work has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Li Tang , Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We propose a communication-efficient optimally structured gradient coding scheme to jointly address straggler resilience and communication efficiency in heterogeneous distributed learning. By establishing a unified framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

Building on the previous work of Lee et al. and Ferdinand et al. on coded computation, we propose a sequential approximation framework for solving optimization problems in a distributed manner. In a distributed computation system, latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jingge Zhu , Ye Pu , Vipul Gupta , Claire Tomlin , Kannan Ramchandran

In this paper, we consider a decentralized learning problem in the presence of stragglers. Although gradient coding techniques have been developed for distributed learning to evade stragglers, where the devices send encoded gradients with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Chengxi Li , Mikael Skoglund

Coded computation is a method to mitigate "stragglers" in distributed computing systems through the use of error correction coding that has lately received significant attention. First used in vector-matrix multiplication, the range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark Draper

In this paper, due to the important value in practical applications, we consider the coded distributed matrix multiplication problem of computing $AA^\top$ in a distributed computing system with $N$ worker nodes and a master node, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jingke Xu , Yaqian Zhang , Libo Wang

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

This paper considers the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of stragglers. For this problem, DL methods based on gradient coding have been widely investigated, which redundantly distribute the training data to the workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Chengxi Li , Mikael Skoglund

Recently, coding has been a useful technique to mitigate the effect of stragglers in distributed computing. However, coding in this context has been mainly explored under the assumption of homogeneous workers, although the real-world…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 DaeJin Kim , Hyegyeong Park , Junkyun Choi

Coded computing has demonstrated promising results in addressing straggler resiliency in distributed computing systems. However, most coded computing schemes are designed for exact computation, requiring the number of responding servers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Large-scale machine learning and data mining methods routinely distribute computations across multiple agents to parallelize processing. The time required for the computations at the agents is affected by the availability of local resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Busra Tegin , Eduin. E. Hernandez , Stefano Rini , Tolga M. Duman

The emerging large-scale and data-hungry algorithms require the computations to be delegated from a central server to several worker nodes. One major challenge in the distributed computations is to tackle delays and failures caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Muriel Médard

We study scheduling of computation tasks across n workers in a large scale distributed learning problem with the help of a master. Computation and communication delays are assumed to be random, and redundant computations are assigned to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

With gradient coding, a user node can efficiently aggregate gradients from server nodes processing local datasets, achieving low communication costs and maintaining resilience against straggling servers. This paper considers a secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yang Zhou , Wenbo Huang , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu

This work focuses on the challenges of non-IID data and stragglers/dropouts in federated learning. We introduce and explore a privacy-flexible paradigm that models parts of the clients' local data as non-private, offering a more versatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Okko Makkonen , Sampo Niemelä , Camilla Hollanti , Serge Kas Hanna

Gradient-based distributed learning in Parameter Server (PS) computing architectures is subject to random delays due to straggling worker nodes, as well as to possible communication bottlenecks between PS and workers. Solutions have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

Large-scale distributed computing systems face two major bottlenecks that limit their scalability: straggler delay caused by the variability of computation times at different worker nodes and communication bottlenecks caused by shuffling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Performance of distributed optimization and learning systems is bottlenecked by "straggler" nodes and slow communication links, which significantly delay computation. We propose a distributed optimization framework where the dataset is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Can Karakus , Yifan Sun , Suhas Diggavi , Wotao Yin

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ali Gholami , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire