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The overall execution time of distributed matrix computations is often dominated by slow worker nodes (stragglers) within the clusters. Recently, different coding techniques have been utilized to mitigate the effect of stragglers where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy

In distributed computing, slower nodes (stragglers) usually become a bottleneck. Gradient Coding (GC), introduced by Tandon et al., is an efficient technique that uses principles of error-correcting codes to distribute gradient computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 M. Nikhil Krishnan , MohammadReza Ebrahimi , Ashish Khisti

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

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

Master-worker distributed computing systems use task replication in order to mitigate the effect of slow workers, known as stragglers. Tasks are grouped into batches and assigned to one or more workers for execution. We first consider the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin

In distributed synchronous gradient descent (GD) the main performance bottleneck for the per-iteration completion time is the slowest \textit{straggling} workers. To speed up GD iterations in the presence of stragglers, coded distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Baturalp Buyukates , Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

We consider a system in which an information source generates independent and identically distributed status update packets from an observed phenomenon that takes $n$ possible values based on a given pmf. These update packets are encoded at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Melih Bastopcu , Baturalp Buyukates , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of computing the convolution of two long vectors using parallel processing units in the presence of "stragglers". Stragglers refer to the small fraction of faulty or slow processors that delays the entire computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Sanghamitra Dutta , Viveck Cadambe , Pulkit Grover

Distributed implementations are crucial in speeding up large scale machine learning applications. Distributed gradient descent (GD) is widely employed to parallelize the learning task by distributing the dataset across multiple workers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Baturalp Buyukates , Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

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

Slow working nodes, known as stragglers, can greatly reduce the speed of distributed computation. Coded matrix multiplication is a recently introduced technique that enables straggler-resistant distributed multiplication of large matrices.…

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

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

Distributed matrix computations -- matrix-matrix or matrix-vector multiplications -- are well-recognized to suffer from the problem of stragglers (slow or failed worker nodes). Much of prior work in this area is (i) either sub-optimal in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Anindya B. Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , Namrata Vaswani

We examine lossless data compression from an average delay perspective. An encoder receives input symbols one per unit time from an i.i.d. source and submits binary codewords to a FIFO buffer that transmits bits at a fixed rate to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Jing Zhong , Roy D. Yates

Coded distributed computing has been considered as a promising technique which makes large-scale systems robust to the "straggler" workers. Yet, practical system models for distributed computing have not been available that reflect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Muah Kim , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

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

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

When gradient descent (GD) is scaled to many parallel workers for large scale machine learning problems, its per-iteration computation time is limited by the straggling workers. Straggling workers can be tolerated by assigning redundant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

We consider the problem of stragglers in distributed computing systems. Stragglers, which are compute nodes that unpredictably slow down, often increase the completion times of tasks. One common approach to mitigating stragglers is work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Tharindu Adikari , Haider Al-Lawati , Jason Lam , Zhenhua Hu , Stark C. Draper

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