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Coded computation can be used to speed up distributed learning in the presence of straggling workers. Partial recovery of the gradient vector can further reduce the computation time at each iteration; however, this can result in biased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Emre Ozfatura , Baturalp Buyukates , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

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

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

Analog Lagrange Coded Computing (ALCC) is a recently proposed coded computing paradigm wherein certain computations over analog datasets can be efficiently performed using distributed worker nodes through floating point implementation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Rimpi Borah , J. Harshan

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

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 framework enables large-scale machine learning (ML) models to be trained efficiently in a distributed manner, while mitigating the straggler effect. In this work, we consider a multi-task assignment problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yuxuan Sun , Junlin Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Deniz Gündüz

In distributed computing systems, it is well recognized that worker nodes that are slow (called stragglers) tend to dominate the overall job execution time. Coded computation utilizes concepts from erasure coding to mitigate the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Anindya B. Das , Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

A major hurdle in machine learning is scalability to massive datasets. One approach to overcoming this is to distribute the computational tasks among several workers. \textit{Gradient coding} has been recently proposed in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Neophytos Charalambides , Hessam Mahdavifar , Alfred O. Hero

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

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

Analog Lagrange Coded Computing (ALCC) is a recently proposed computational paradigm wherein certain computations over analog datasets are efficiently performed using distributed worker nodes through floating point representation. While the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Rimpi Borah , J. Harshan

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

Distributed matrix multiplication is widely used in several scientific domains. It is well recognized that computation times on distributed clusters are often dominated by the slowest workers (called stragglers). Recent work has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Li Tang , Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Gradient descent and its many variants, including mini-batch stochastic gradient descent, form the algorithmic foundation of modern large-scale machine learning. Due to the size and scale of modern data, gradient computations are often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

We consider the problem of massive matrix multiplication, which underlies many data analytic applications, in a large-scale distributed system comprising a group of worker nodes. We target the stragglers' delay performance bottleneck, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Gradient descent algorithms are widely used in machine learning. In order to deal with huge volume of data, we consider the implementation of gradient descent algorithms in a distributed computing setting where multiple workers compute the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Haozhao Wang , Song Guo , Bin Tang , Ruixuan Li , Chengjie Li

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Gradient coding schemes effectively mitigate full stragglers in distributed learning by introducing identical redundancy in coded local partial derivatives corresponding to all model parameters. However, they are no longer effective for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Qi Wang , Ying Cui , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Coded distributed computing has been considered as a promising technique which makes large-scale systems robust to the "straggler" workers. Yet, practical system models for distributed computing have not been available that reflect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Muah Kim , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon