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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

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

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

We consider distributed learning in the presence of slow and unresponsive worker nodes, referred to as stragglers. In order to mitigate the effect of stragglers, gradient coding redundantly assigns partial computations to the worker such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Luis Maßny , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

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

Polynomial based approaches, such as the Mat-Dot and entangled polynomial codes (EPC) have been used extensively within coded matrix computations to obtain schemes with good recovery thresholds. However, these schemes are well-recognized to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kyungrak Son , Aditya Ramamoorthy

The widespread adoption of distributed learning to train a global model from local data has been hindered by the challenge posed by stragglers. Recent attempts to mitigate this issue through gradient coding have proved difficult due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Tingting Yang , Xinghan Wang , Jiahong Ning , Yang Yang

Coded computing has emerged as a key framework for addressing the impact of stragglers in distributed computation. While polynomial functions often admit exact recovery under existing coded computing schemes, non-polynomial functions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rimpi Borah , J. Harshan , V. Lalitha

Distributed implementations of gradient-based methods, wherein a server distributes gradient computations across worker machines, suffer from slow running machines, called 'stragglers'. Gradient coding is a coding-theoretic framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Swanand Kadhe , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kannan Ramchandran

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

We consider a scenario involving computations over a massive dataset stored distributedly across multiple workers, which is at the core of distributed learning algorithms. We propose Lagrange Coded Computing (LCC), a new framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Netanel Raviv , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

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

Elasticity is offered by cloud service providers to exploit under-utilized computing resources. The low-cost elastic nodes can leave and join any time during the computation cycle. The possibility of elastic events occurring together with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Shahrzad Kiani , Tharindu Adikari , Stark C. Draper

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

To multiply astronomic matrices using parallel workers subject to straggling, we recommend interleaving checksums with some fast matrix multiplication algorithms. Nesting the parity-checked algorithms, we weave a product code flavor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

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

We propose a novel application of coded computing to the problem of the nearest neighbor estimation using MatDot Codes [Fahim. et.al. 2017], that are known to be optimal for matrix multiplication in terms of recovery threshold under storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Utsav Sheth , Sanghamitra Dutta , Malhar Chaudhari , Haewon Jeong , Yaoqing Yang , Jukka Kohonen , Teemu Roos , Pulkit Grover

In this paper, we consider a large network containing many regions such that each region is equipped with a worker with some data processing and communication capability. For such a network, some workers may become stragglers due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Qiyu Sun

In this paper, we propose an optimally structured gradient coding scheme to mitigate the straggler problem in distributed learning. Conventional gradient coding methods often assume homogeneous straggler models or rely on excessive data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

Coded distributed computing was recently introduced to mitigate the effect of stragglers on distributed computing. This paper combines ideas of approximate computing with coded computing to further accelerate computation. We propose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Shahrzad Kiani , Stark C. Draper