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Coded distributed batch computation distributes a computation task, such as matrix multiplication, $N$-linear computation, or multivariate polynomial evaluation, across $S$ servers through a coding scheme, such that the response from any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Zhuqing Jia , Syed A. Jafar

We consider the problem of designing secure and private codes for distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices and hires worker nodes to help compute their product. The matrices should remain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Christoph Hofmeister , Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Coded polynomial aggregation (CPA) enables the master to directly recover a weighted aggregation of polynomial evaluations without individually decoding each term, thereby reducing the number of required worker responses. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xi Zhong , Jörg Kliewer , Mingyue Ji

In cloud computing systems slow processing nodes, often referred to as "stragglers", can significantly extend the computation time. Recent results have shown that error correction coding can be used to reduce the effect of stragglers. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

Polynomial based methods have recently been used in several works for mitigating the effect of stragglers (slow or failed nodes) in distributed matrix computations. For a system with $n$ worker nodes where $s$ can be stragglers, these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Li Tang

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

This paper has two contributions. First, we propose a novel coded matrix multiplication technique called Generalized PolyDot codes that advances on existing methods for coded matrix multiplication under storage and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sanghamitra Dutta , Ziqian Bai , Haewon Jeong , Tze Meng Low , Pulkit Grover

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

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

One of the most common, but at the same time expensive operations in linear algebra, is multiplying two matrices $A$ and $B$. With the rapid development of machine learning and increases in data volume, performing fast matrix intensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Neophytos Charalambides , Mert Pilanci , Alfred Hero

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We construct polynomial codes for SDMM by studying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , David Karpuk

We present Modular Polynomial (MP) Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication (SDMM). The construction is based on the observation that one can decode certain proper subsets of the coefficients of a polynomial with fewer evaluations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David Karpuk , Razane Tajeddine

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We construct polynomial codes for SDMM by studying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein , David Karpuk

We consider a generalization of the gradient coding framework where a dataset is divided across $n$ workers and each worker transmits to a master node one or more linear combinations of the gradients over its assigned data subsets. Unlike…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar , V. Lalitha , Nikhil Karamchandani

The problem of distributed matrix multiplication with straggler tolerance over finite fields is considered, focusing on field sizes for which previous solutions were not applicable (for instance, the field of two elements). We employ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Adrián Fidalgo-Díaz , Umberto Martínez-Peñas

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) secure multiplication in distributed computing systems, focusing on regimes where perfect privacy and perfect accuracy cannot be simultaneously achieved. Specifically, N nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

Quantum signal processing combined with quantum eigenvalue transformation has recently emerged as a unifying framework for several quantum algorithms. In its standard form, it consists of two separate routines: block encoding, which encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Martina Nibbi , Christian B. Mendl

In this paper, we present a coded computation (CC) scheme for distributed computation of the inference phase of machine learning (ML) tasks, specifically, the task of image classification. Building upon Agrawal et al.~2022, the proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jiepeng Tang , Navneet Agrawal , Slawomir Stanczak , Jingge Zhu

In a large-scale distributed machine learning system, coded computing has attracted wide-spread attention since it can effectively alleviate the impact of stragglers. However, several emerging problems greatly limit the performance of coded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Houming Qiu , Kun Zhu , Nguyen Cong Luong , Dusit Niyato

Over a decade ago, it was demonstrated that quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize numerical linear algebra by enabling algorithms with complexity superior to what is classically achievable, e.g., the seminal HHL algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Liron Mor Yosef , Haim Avron