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Gradient descent (GD) methods are commonly employed in machine learning problems to optimize the parameters of the model in an iterative fashion. For problems with massive datasets, computations are distributed to many parallel computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

Distributed computation is a framework used to break down a complex computational task into smaller tasks and distributing them among computational nodes. Erasure correction codes have recently been introduced and have become a popular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Royee Yosibash , Ram Zamir

Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling workers in distributed computing. However, most of the existing schemes require exact provisioning of the straggling behaviour and ignore the computations carried out by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices necessitates efficient management of computational resources, often via distributed environments susceptible to latency from straggler nodes. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shuo Tan , Rui Liu , Xuesong Han , XianLei Long , Kai Wan , Linqi Song , Yong Li

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

In distributed machine learning, a central node outsources computationally expensive calculations to external worker nodes. The properties of optimization procedures like stochastic gradient descent (SGD) can be leveraged to mitigate the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Maximilian Egger , Serge Kas Hanna , Rawad Bitar

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

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

While performing distributed computations in today's cloud-based platforms, execution speed variations among compute nodes can significantly reduce the performance and create bottlenecks like stragglers. Coded computation techniques…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Krishna Giri Narra , Zhifeng Lin , Mehrdad Kiamari , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

Edge computing has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to boost the performance of distributed learning by leveraging the distributed resources at edge nodes. Architecturally, the introduction of edge nodes adds an additional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Weiheng Tang , Jingyi Li , Lin Chen , Xu Chen

Recently, coding has been a useful technique to mitigate the effect of stragglers in distributed computing. However, coding in this context has been mainly explored under the assumption of homogeneous workers, although the real-world…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 DaeJin Kim , Hyegyeong Park , Junkyun Choi

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

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We study the problem of computing matrix chain multiplications in a distributed computing cluster. In such systems, performance is often limited by the straggler problem, where the slowest worker dominates the overall computation latency.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebò

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

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

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 2019-06-25 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Li {\it et al}. introduced coded distributed computing (CDC) scheme to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. They also proposed cascaded CDC schemes where each output function is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Jing Jiang , Lingxiao Qu