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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

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

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

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

We consider the problem of designing a coding scheme that allows both sparsity and privacy for distributed matrix-vector multiplication. Perfect information-theoretic privacy requires encoding the input sparse matrices into matrices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Marvin Xhemrishi , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

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

The problem of straggler mitigation in distributed matrix multiplication (DMM) is considered for a large number of worker nodes and a fixed small finite field. Polynomial codes and matdot codes are generalized by making use of algebraic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Adrián Fidalgo-Díaz , Umberto Martínez-Peñas

We consider the problem of private distributed matrix multiplication under limited resources. Coded computation has been shown to be an effective solution in distributed matrix multiplication, both providing privacy against the workers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Burak Hasircioglu , Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo , Deniz Gunduz

The notion of universally decodable matrices (UDMs) was recently introduced by Tavildar and Viswanath while studying slow fading channels. It turns out that the problem of constructing UDMs is tightly connected to the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Pascal O. Vontobel , Ashwin Ganesan

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

Today's massively-sized datasets have made it necessary to often perform computations on them in a distributed manner. In principle, a computational task is divided into subtasks which are distributed over a cluster operated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Wael Halbawi , Navid Azizan-Ruhi , Fariborz Salehi , Babak Hassibi

Slow running or straggler tasks can significantly reduce computation speed in distributed computation. Recently, coding-theory-inspired approaches have been applied to mitigate the effect of straggling, through embedding redundancy in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-24 Can Karakus , Yifan Sun , Suhas Diggavi , Wotao Yin

In large scale distributed linear transform problems, coded computation plays an important role to effectively deal with "stragglers" (distributed computations that may get delayed due to few slow or faulty processors). We propose a coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Sinong Wang , Jiashang Liu , Ness Shroff , Pengyu Yang

In distributed computing systems slow working nodes, known as stragglers, can greatly extend finishing times. Coded computing is a technique that enables straggler-resistant computation. Most coded computing techniques presented to date…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

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 consider a large-scale matrix multiplication problem where the computation is carried out using a distributed system with a master node and multiple worker nodes, where each worker can store parts of the input matrices. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

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

Tensor operations, such as matrix multiplication, are central to large-scale machine learning applications. For user-driven tasks these operations can be carried out on a distributed computing platform with a master server at the user side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Malihe Aliasgari , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer

Supporting multiple partial computations efficiently at each of the workers is a keystone in distributed coded computing in order to speed up computations and to fully exploit the resources of heterogeneous workers in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Burak Hasırcıoğlu , Deniz Gündüz