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Distributed learning is an effective approach to accelerate model training using multiple workers. However, substantial communication delays emerge between workers and a parameter server due to massive costs associated with communicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Chanho Park , Namyoon Lee

Coded computing is a method for mitigating straggling workers in a centralized computing network, by using erasure-coding techniques. Federated learning is a decentralized model for training data distributed across client devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Neophytos Charalambides , Mert Pilanci , Alfred Hero

We propose a communication-efficient optimally structured gradient coding scheme to jointly address straggler resilience and communication efficiency in heterogeneous distributed learning. By establishing a unified framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

Semantic communication (SC) is recognized as a promising approach for enabling reliable communication with minimal data transfer while maintaining seamless connectivity for a group of wireless users. Unlocking the advantages of SC for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nitisha Singh , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

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

Despite the popularity of homogeneous GPU-based deep learning (DL) training, the prevalence, causes and impact of stragglers and the effectiveness of existing straggler mitigation approaches are still not well understood in this scenario…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zeyu Zhang , Haiying Shen

Placement delivery arrays for distributed computing (Comp-PDAs) have recently been proposed as a framework to construct universal computing schemes for MapReduce-like systems. In this work, we extend this concept to systems with straggling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Qifa Yan , Michèle Wigger , Sheng Yang , Xiaohu Tang

In the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for sequential simulations such as the neural stochastic differential equations, the Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method is known to offer better theoretical computational complexity compared to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Kei Ishikawa

Distributed learning methods have gained substantial momentum in recent years, with communication overhead often emerging as a critical bottleneck. Gradient compression techniques alleviate communication costs but involve an inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ze'ev Zukerman , Bassel Hamoud , Kfir Y. Levy

We study communication over a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with two types of transmitters: Digital transmitters hold a message from a discrete set that needs to be communicated to the receiver with vanishing error probability.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Michael C. Gastpar , Jingge Zhu

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

Federated Learning is a powerful machine learning paradigm to cooperatively train a global model with highly distributed data. A major bottleneck on the performance of distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm for large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Haozhao Wang , Zhihao Qu , Song Guo , Xin Gao , Ruixuan Li , Baoliu Ye

Distributed learning, particularly variants of distributed stochastic gradient descent (DSGD), are widely employed to speed up training by leveraging computational resources of several workers. However, in practise, communication delay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Kerem Ozfatura , Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

We consider the problem of jointly optimizing users' offloading decisions, communication and computing resource allocation in a sliced multi-cell mobile edge computing (MEC) network. We minimize the weighted sum of the gap between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sheyda Zarandi , Hina Tabassum

Training neural networks on large datasets can be accelerated by distributing the workload over a network of machines. As datasets grow ever larger, networks of hundreds or thousands of machines become economically viable. The time cost of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Jeremy Bernstein , Jiawei Zhao , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

The development of cluster computing frameworks has allowed practitioners to scale out various statistical estimation and machine learning algorithms with minimal programming effort. This is especially true for machine learning problems…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-24 Robin Vogel , Aurélien Bellet , Stephan Clémençon , Ons Jelassi , Guillaume Papa

Due to the substantial computational cost, training state-of-the-art deep neural networks for large-scale datasets often requires distributed training using multiple computation workers. However, by nature, workers need to frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yusuke Tsuzuku , Hiroto Imachi , Takuya Akiba

Split learning is a promising privacy-preserving distributed learning scheme that has low computation requirement at the edge device but has the disadvantage of high communication overhead between edge device and server. To reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Xing Chen , Jingtao Li , Chaitali Chakrabarti

Training of large language models (LLMs) is typically distributed across a large number of accelerators to reduce training time. Since internal states and parameter gradients need to be exchanged at each and every single gradient step, all…

We introduce a new, high-throughput, synchronous, distributed, data-parallel, stochastic-gradient-descent learning algorithm. This algorithm uses amortized inference in a compute-cluster-specific, deep, generative, dynamical model to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Michael Teng , Frank Wood