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Matrix multiplication is a fundamental building block for large scale computations arising in various applications, including machine learning. There has been significant recent interest in using coding to speed up distributed matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

Large-scale distributed computing systems face two major bottlenecks that limit their scalability: straggler delay caused by the variability of computation times at different worker nodes and communication bottlenecks caused by shuffling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

The distributed matrix multiplication problem with an unknown number of stragglers is considered, where the goal is to efficiently and flexibly obtain the product of two massive matrices by distributing the computation across N servers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Weiqi Li , Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed A. Jafar , Hamid Jafarkhani

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

We consider distributed learning in the presence of slow and unresponsive worker nodes, referred to as stragglers. In order to mitigate the effect of stragglers, gradient coding redundantly assigns partial computations to the worker such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Luis Maßny , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

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

In this paper, we consider designing low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded modulation systems to achieve unequal error protection (UEP). We propose a new UEP approach by partial superposition transmission called UEP-by-PST. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Kechao Huang , Chulong Liang , Xiao Ma , Baoming Bai

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 of gradient-based methods, wherein a server distributes gradient computations across worker machines, need to overcome two limitations: delays caused by slow running machines called 'stragglers', and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Swanand Kadhe , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kannan Ramchandran

Rateless codes have been shown to be able to provide greater flexibility and efficiency than fixed-rate codes for multicast applications. In the following, we optimize rateless codes for unequal error protection (UEP) for multimedia…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Yu Cao , Steven D. Blostein , Wai-Yip Chan

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

Coded matrix multiplication is a technique to enable straggler-resistant multiplication of large matrices in distributed computing systems. In this paper, we first present a conceptual framework to represent the division of work amongst…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

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

The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of current straggler mitigation techniques over different important iterative convergent machine learning(ML) algorithm including Matrix Factorization (MF), Multinomial Logistic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Benjamin Wong

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

Unequal error protection (UEP) coding that enables differentiated reliability levels within a transmitted message is essential for modern communication systems. Autoencoder (AE)-based code designs have shown promise in the context of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic

Coded computation is an emerging research area that leverages concepts from erasure coding to mitigate the effect of stragglers (slow nodes) in distributed computation clusters, especially for matrix computation problems. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Li Tang , Pascal O. Vontobel

Conventional communication systems are mainly designed to reduce error rates and increase transmission rates, and therefore usually provide uniform protection to all transmitted messages. However, in intent-oriented applications, different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Qiming Lu , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

We consider a large-scale matrix multiplication problem where the computation is carried out using a distributed system with a master node and multiple worker nodes, where each worker can store parts of the input matrices. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

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