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We study the problem of computing matrix chain multiplications in a distributed computing cluster. In such systems, performance is often limited by the straggler problem, where the slowest worker dominates the overall computation latency.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebò

In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In particular, by dividing two input matrices into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

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 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

Coded computing is an effective technique to mitigate "stragglers" in large-scale and distributed matrix multiplication. In particular, univariate polynomial codes have been shown to be effective in straggler mitigation by making the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Burak Hasircioglu , Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo , Deniz Gunduz

Straggler nodes are well-known bottlenecks of distributed matrix computations which induce reductions in computation/communication speeds. A common strategy for mitigating such stragglers is to incorporate Reed-Solomon based MDS (maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

We consider the distributed computing problem of multiplying a set of vectors with a matrix. For this scenario, Li et al. recently presented a unified coding framework and showed a fundamental tradeoff between computational delay and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Albin Severinson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes

Coded computation is an emerging research area that leverages concepts from erasure coding to mitigate the effect of stragglers (slow nodes) in distributed computation clusters, especially for matrix computation problems. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Li Tang , Pascal O. Vontobel

Edge computing has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to boost the performance of distributed learning by leveraging the distributed resources at edge nodes. Architecturally, the introduction of edge nodes adds an additional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Weiheng Tang , Jingyi Li , Lin Chen , Xu Chen

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

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

Existing approaches to distributed matrix computations involve allocating coded combinations of submatrices to worker nodes, to build resilience to stragglers and/or enhance privacy. In this study, we consider the challenge of preserving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

In large-scale distributed computing clusters, such as Amazon EC2, there are several types of "system noise" that can result in major degradation of performance: bottlenecks due to limited communication bandwidth, latency due to straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Saurav Prakash , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

In distributed computing systems, it is well recognized that worker nodes that are slow (called stragglers) tend to dominate the overall job execution time. Coded computation utilizes concepts from erasure coding to mitigate the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Anindya B. Das , Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

The multiplication of matrices is an important arithmetic operation in computational mathematics. In the context of hierarchical matrices, this operation can be realized by the multiplication of structured block-wise low-rank matrices,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Jürgen Dölz , Helmut Harbrecht , Michael D. Multerer

Codes are widely used in many engineering applications to offer robustness against noise. In large-scale systems there are several types of noise that can affect the performance of distributed machine learning algorithms -- straggler nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Kangwook Lee , Maximilian Lam , Ramtin Pedarsani , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Kannan Ramchandran

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

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 consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mahdi Soleymani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar