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Information theoretically secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a central primitive of modern cryptography. However, relatively little is known about the communication complexity of this primitive. In this work, we develop powerful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

In this paper, we present an analytical lower bound on the ergodic capacity of optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. It turns out that the optical MIMO channel matrix which couples the mt inputs (modes/cores) into mr…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Rémi Bonnefoi , Amor Nafkha

The success of modern parallel paradigms such as MapReduce, Hadoop, or Spark, has attracted a significant attention to the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model over the past few years, especially on graph problems. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Richard M. Karp

Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) architectures achieve superior model performance with reduced computation costs, but at the cost of high memory capacity and bandwidth requirements. Near-Memory Processing (NMP)…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Haochen Huang , Shuzhang Zhong , Zhe Zhang , Shuangchen Li , Dimin Niu , Hongzhong Zheng , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

In this paper we study the tradeoff between parallelism and communication cost in a map-reduce computation. For any problem that is not "embarrassingly parallel," the finer we partition the work of the reducers so that more parallelism can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Foto N. Afrati , Anish Das Sarma , Semih Salihoglu , Jeffrey D. Ullman

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have inspired new studies in myriad edge applications with robots, autonomous agents, and Internet-of-things (IoT) devices. However, performing inference of DNNs in the edge is still a severe challenge, mainly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Ramyad Hadidi , Bahar Asgari , Jiashen Cao , Younmin Bae , Da Eun Shim , Hyojong Kim , Sung-Kyu Lim , Michael S. Ryoo , Hyesoon Kim

Clustering is an important tool in data analysis, with K-means being popular for its simplicity and versatility. However, it cannot handle non-linearly separable clusters. Kernel K-means addresses this limitation but requires a large kernel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Julian Bellavita , Matthew Rubino , Nakul Iyer , Andrew Chang , Aditya Devarakonda , Flavio Vella , Giulia Guidi

In this work, we study the experts problem in the distributed setting where an expert's cost needs to be aggregated across multiple servers. Our study considers various communication models such as the message-passing model and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zhihao Jia , Qi Pang , Trung Tran , David Woodruff , Zhihao Zhang , Wenting Zheng

We initiate the study of graph algorithms in the streaming setting on massive distributed and parallel systems inspired by practical data processing systems. The objective is to design algorithms that can efficiently process evolving graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

This paper considers the achievable rates and decoding complexity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over statistically independent parallel channels. The paper starts with the derivation of bounds on the conditional entropy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

We resolve several fundamental questions in the area of distributed functional monitoring, initiated by Cormode, Muthukrishnan, and Yi (SODA, 2008). In this model there are $k$ sites each tracking their input and communicating with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-13 David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

Recently, Czumaj et.al. (arXiv 2017) presented a parallel (almost) $2$-approximation algorithm for the maximum matching problem in only $O({(\log\log{n})^2})$ rounds of the massive parallel computation (MPC) framework, when the memory per…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Sepehr Assadi

We consider a standard distributed optimisation setting where $N$ machines, each holding a $d$-dimensional function $f_i$, aim to jointly minimise the sum of the functions $\sum_{i = 1}^N f_i (x)$. This problem arises naturally in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Dan Alistarh , Janne H. Korhonen

The simulation of large ensembles of particles is usually parallelized by partitioning the domain spatially and using message passing to communicate between the processes handling neighboring subdomains. The particles are represented as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Sebastian Eibl , Ulrich Rüde

We developed a flexible parallel algorithm for graph summarization based on vertex-centric programming and parameterized message passing. The base algorithm supports infinitely many structural graph summary models defined in a formal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Till Blume , Jannik Rau , David Richerby , Ansgar Scherp

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a computationally efficient method to learn embeddings and classifications on graph data. However, GNN training has low computational intensity, making communication costs the bottleneck for scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ujjaini Mukhodopadhyay , Alok Tripathy , Oguz Selvitopi , Katherine Yelick , Aydin Buluc

We address the problem of joint sparsity pattern recovery based on low dimensional multiple measurement vectors (MMVs) in resource constrained distributed networks. We assume that distributed nodes observe sparse signals which share the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Thankshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

We consider the problem of communicating exogenous information by means of Markov decision process trajectories. This setting, which we call a Markov coding game (MCG), generalizes both source coding and a large class of referential games.…

Neural network (NN) accelerators with multi-chip-module (MCM) architectures enable integration of massive computation capability; however, they face challenges of computing resource underutilization and off-chip communication overheads.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongle Huang , Hongyang Jia , Kaiwei Zou , Yongpan Liu

Emulating atomic read/write shared objects in a message-passing system is a fundamental problem in distributed computing. Considering that network communication is the most expensive resource, efficiency is measured first of all in terms of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Theophanis Hadjistasi , Nicolas Nicolaou , Alexander A. Schwarzmann