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Data shuffling between distributed cluster of nodes is one of the critical steps in implementing large-scale learning algorithms. Randomly shuffling the data-set among a cluster of workers allows different nodes to obtain fresh data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

We consider the recently proposed Coded Distributed Computing (CDC) framework that leverages carefully designed redundant computations to enable coding opportunities that substantially reduce the communication load of distributed computing.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Mehrdad Kiamari , Chenwei Wang , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper studies MapReduce-based heterogeneous coded distributed computing (CDC) where, besides different computing capabilities at workers, input files to be accessed by computing jobs have nonuniform popularity. We propose a file…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yong Deng , Min Dong

This work explores a distributed computing setting where $K$ nodes are assigned fractions (subtasks) of a computational task in order to perform the computation in parallel. In this setting, a well-known main bottleneck has been the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Emanuele Parrinello , Eleftherios Lampiris , Petros Elia

Consider a distributed computing system in which the worker nodes are connected over a shared wireless channel. Nodes can store a fraction of the data set over which computation needs to be carried out, and a Map-Shuffle-Reduce protocol is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sukjong Ha , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

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

We consider a heterogeneous network with mobile edge computing, where a user can offload its computation to one among multiple servers. In particular, we minimize the system-wide computation overhead by jointly optimizing the individual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Quoc-Viet Pham , Tuan LeAnh , Nguyen H. Tran , Choong Seon Hong

In large scale distributed computing systems, communication overhead is one of the major bottlenecks. In the map-shuffle-reduce framework, which is one of the major distributed computing frameworks, the communication load among servers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shunsuke Horii

Distributed learning platforms for processing large scale data-sets are becoming increasingly prevalent. In typical distributed implementations, a centralized master node breaks the data-set into smaller batches for parallel processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Mohamed Attia , Ravi Tandon

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 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

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

In this work, a heterogeneous set of wireless devices sharing a common access point collaborates to perform a set of tasks. Using the Map-Reduce distributed computing framework, the tasks are optimally distributed amongst the nodes with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-07 Antoine Paris , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

Performance of distributed graph processing systems significantly suffers from 'communication bottleneck' as a large number of messages are exchanged among servers at each step of the computation. Motivated by graph based MapReduce, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Saurav Prakash , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

In this paper, we consider a hierarchical distributed multi-task learning (MTL) system where distributed users wish to jointly learn different models orchestrated by a central server with the help of a layer of multiple relays. Since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Haoyang Hu , Songze Li , Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu

This paper considers the MapReduce-like coded distributed computing framework originally proposed by Li et al., which uses coding techniques when distributed computing servers exchange their computed intermediate values, in order to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

We consider a MapReduce-like distributed computing system. We derive a lower bound on the communication cost for any given storage and computation costs. This lower bound matches the achievable bound we proposed recently. As a result, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Qifa Yan , Sheng Yang , Michèle Wigger

This paper explores the multi-access distributed computing (MADC) model, a novel distributed computing framework where mapper and reducer nodes are distinct entities. Unlike traditional MapReduce frameworks, MADC leverages coding-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shanuja Sasi , Onur Günlü