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Optimization in distributed networks plays a central role in almost all distributed machine learning problems. In principle, the use of distributed task allocation has reduced the computational time, allowing better response rates and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Chinwendu Enyioha

Distributed matrix computations over large clusters can suffer from the problem of slow or failed worker nodes (called stragglers) which can dominate the overall job execution time. Coded computation utilizes concepts from erasure coding to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Distributed computing systems are well-known to suffer from the problem of slow or failed nodes; these are referred to as stragglers. Straggler mitigation (for distributed matrix computations) has recently been investigated from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

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

In 2018, Yang et al. introduced a novel and effective approach, using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, to mitigate the impact of elasticity in cloud computing systems. This approach is referred to as coded elastic computing. Some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xi Zhong , Joerg Kliewer , Mingyue Ji

Computationally intensive distributed and parallel computing is often bottlenecked by a small set of slow workers known as stragglers. In this paper, we utilize the emerging idea of "coded computation" to design a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Yaoqing Yang , Pulkit Grover , Soummya Kar

Coded computing is an effective technique to mitigate "stragglers" in large-scale and distributed matrix multiplication. In particular, univariate polynomial codes have been shown to be effective in straggler mitigation by making the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Burak Hasircioglu , Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo , Deniz Gunduz

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

In distributed machine learning (DML), the training data is distributed across multiple worker nodes to perform the underlying training in parallel. One major problem affecting the performance of DML algorithms is presence of stragglers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Amogh Johri , Arti Yardi , Tejas Bodas

Performance of distributed optimization and learning systems is bottlenecked by "straggler" nodes and slow communication links, which significantly delay computation. We propose a distributed optimization framework where the dataset is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Can Karakus , Yifan Sun , Suhas Diggavi , Wotao Yin

We consider the problem of training a least-squares regression model on a large dataset using gradient descent. The computation is carried out on a distributed system consisting of a master node and multiple worker nodes. Such distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Songze Li , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Qian Yu , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In particular, by dividing two input matrices into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

Coded computation is a method to mitigate "stragglers" in distributed computing systems through the use of error correction coding that has lately received significant attention. First used in vector-matrix multiplication, the range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark Draper

We consider the problem of computing the convolution of two long vectors using parallel processing units in the presence of "stragglers". Stragglers refer to the small fraction of faulty or slow processors that delays the entire computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Sanghamitra Dutta , Viveck Cadambe , Pulkit Grover

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

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

Because of their capacity-approaching performance, graph-based codes have a wide range of applications, including communications and storage. In these codes, unequal error protection (UEP) can offer performance gains with limited rate loss.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Beyza Dabak , Ahmed Hareedy , Alexei Ashikhmin , Robert Calderbank

In this paper, due to the important value in practical applications, we consider the coded distributed matrix multiplication problem of computing $AA^\top$ in a distributed computing system with $N$ worker nodes and a master node, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jingke Xu , Yaqian Zhang , Libo Wang