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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

This study develops an algorithm for distributed computing of linear programming problems of huge-scales. Global consensus with single common variable, multiblocks, and augmented Lagrangian are adopted. The consensus is used to partition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Luoyi Tao

Big data, including applications with high security requirements, are often collected and stored on multiple heterogeneous devices, such as mobile devices, drones and vehicles. Due to the limitations of communication costs and security…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hao Chen , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Communication bottlenecks and the presence of stragglers pose significant challenges in distributed learning (DL). To deal with these challenges, recent advances leverage unbiased compression functions and gradient coding. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Concerning huge-scale aggregative convex programming of a linear objective subject to the affine constraints of equality and inequality and the quadratic constraints of inequality, convex and aggregatively computable, an algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Luoyi Tao

It is common to reject undesired outputs of Large Language Models (LLMs); however, current methods to do so require an excessive amount of computation to re-sample after a rejection, or distort the distribution of outputs by constraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Daniel Melcer , Sujan Gonugondla , Pramuditha Perera , Haifeng Qian , Wen-Hao Chiang , Yanjun Wang , Nihal Jain , Pranav Garg , Xiaofei Ma , Anoop Deoras

Communication overhead is one of the major performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed computing systems, in particular for machine learning applications. Conventionally, compression techniques are used to reduce the load of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

Most multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods are limited in the scale of problems they can handle. With increasing numbers of agents, the number of training iterations required to find the optimal behaviors increases exponentially…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Baoqian Wang , Junfei Xie , Nikolay Atanasov

Categorizing source codes accurately and efficiently is a challenging problem in real-world programming education platform management. In recent years, model-based approaches utilizing abstract syntax trees (ASTs) have been widely applied…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ziyang Xiang , Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu

Motivated by the need for decentralized learning, this paper aims at designing a distributed algorithm for solving nonconvex problems with general linear constraints over a multi-agent network. In the considered problem, each agent owns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Jiawei Zhang , Songyang Ge , Tsung-Hui Chang , Zhi-Quan Luo

Matrix factorization is an important representation learning algorithm, e.g., recommender systems, where a large matrix can be factorized into the product of two low dimensional matrices termed as latent representations. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Siyuan Wang , Qifa Yan , Jingjing Zhang , Jianping Wang , Linqi Song

We consider the distributed computing problem of multiplying a set of vectors with a matrix. For this scenario, Li et al. recently presented a unified coding framework and showed a fundamental tradeoff between computational delay and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Albin Severinson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes

Distributed Arithmetic Coding (DAC) has emerged as a feasible solution to the Slepian-Wolf problem, particularly in scenarios with non-stationary sources and for data sequences with lengths ranging from small to medium. Due to the inherent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Junwei Zhou , HaoYun Xiao , Jianwen Xi , Qiuzhen Lin

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

Mobile ad hoc computing (MAHC), which allows mobile devices to directly share their computing resources, is a promising solution to address the growing demands for computing resources required by mobile devices. However, offloading a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Baoqian Wang , Junfei Xie , Kejie Lu , Yan Wan , Shengli Fu

Master-worker distributed computing systems use task replication in order to mitigate the effect of slow workers, known as stragglers. Tasks are grouped into batches and assigned to one or more workers for execution. We first consider the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin

In this article, we address the problem of federated learning in the presence of stragglers. For this problem, a coded federated learning framework has been proposed, where the central server aggregates gradients received from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Coded computing has proved to be useful in distributed computing. We have observed that almost all coded computing systems studied so far consider a setup of one master and some workers. However, recently emerging technologies such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Nastaran Abadi Khooshemehr , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

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