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Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that enables the training of a shared global model across distributed clients while keeping the training data local. While most prior work on designing systems for FL has focused on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mohamed Elzohairy , Mohak Chadha , Anshul Jindal , Andreas Grafberger , Jianfeng Gu , Michael Gerndt , Osama Abboud

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

Coding theoretic techniques have been proposed for synchronous Gradient Descent (GD) on multiple servers to mitigate stragglers. These techniques provide the flexibility that the job is complete when any $k$ out of $n$ servers finish their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shanuja Sasi , V. Lalitha , Vaneet Aggarwal , B. Sundar Rajan

In distributed machine learning (DML), the training data is distributed across multiple worker nodes to perform the underlying training in parallel. One major problem affecting the performance of DML algorithms is presence of stragglers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Amogh Johri , Arti Yardi , Tejas Bodas

Distributed gradient descent (DGD) is an efficient way of implementing gradient descent (GD), especially for large data sets, by dividing the computation tasks into smaller subtasks and assigning to different computing servers (CSs) to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

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 performance of large-scale distributed compute systems is adversely impacted by stragglers when the execution time of a job is uncertain. To manage stragglers, we consider a multi-fork approach for job scheduling, where additional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ajay Badita , Parimal Parag , Vaneet Aggarwal

Coded computing has demonstrated promising results in addressing straggler resiliency in distributed computing systems. However, most coded computing schemes are designed for exact computation, requiring the number of responding servers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We study scheduling of computation tasks across n workers in a large scale distributed learning problem with the help of a master. Computation and communication delays are assumed to be random, and redundant computations are assigned to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

Distributed algorithms are often beset by the straggler effect, where the slowest compute nodes in the system dictate the overall running time. Coding-theoretic techniques have been recently proposed to mitigate stragglers via algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Jordan Ellenberg

Coded elastic computing enables virtual machines to be preempted for high-priority tasks while allowing new virtual machines to join ongoing computation seamlessly. This paper addresses coded elastic computing for matrix-matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Xi Zhong , Samuel Lu , Joerg Kliewer , Mingyue Ji

Runtime variability in computing systems causes some tasks to straggle and take much longer than expected to complete. These straggler tasks are known to significantly slowdown distributed computation. Job execution with speculative…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Mehmet Fatih Aktas , Emina Soljanin

This paper aims to mitigate straggler effects in synchronous distributed learning for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems. Stragglers arise frequently in a distributed learning system, due to the existence of various system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Baoqian Wang , Junfei Xie , Nikolay Atanasov

The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of current straggler mitigation techniques over different important iterative convergent machine learning(ML) algorithm including Matrix Factorization (MF), Multinomial Logistic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Benjamin Wong

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

Dealing with the shear size and complexity of today's massive data sets requires computational platforms that can analyze data in a parallelized and distributed fashion. A major bottleneck that arises in such modern distributed computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-03 A. Salman Avestimehr , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Modern distributed computation infrastructures are often plagued by unavailabilities such as failing or slow servers. These unavailabilities adversely affect the tail latency of computation in distributed infrastructures. The simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Michael Rudow , K. V. Rashmi , Venkatesan Guruswami

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

This paper introduces REDC, a comprehensive strategy for offloading computational tasks within mobile Edge Networks (EN) to Distributed Computing (DC) after Rateless Encoding (RE). Despite the efficiency, reliability, and scalability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhongfu Guo , Xinsheng Ji , Wei You , Yu Zhao , Bai Yi , Lingwei Wang

In large scale distributed linear transform problems, coded computation plays an important role to effectively deal with "stragglers" (distributed computations that may get delayed due to few slow or faulty processors). We propose a coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Sinong Wang , Jiashang Liu , Ness Shroff , Pengyu Yang