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The distributed linearly separable computation problem finds extensive applications across domains such as distributed gradient coding, distributed linear transform, real-time rendering, etc. In this paper, we investigate this problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haoning Chen , Minquan Cheng , Zhenhao Huang , Youlong Wu

This paper studies the master-worker distributed linearly separable computation problem, where the considered computation task, referred to as linearly separable function, is a typical linear transform model widely used in cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenbo Huang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

The emerging large-scale and data-hungry algorithms require the computations to be delegated from a central server to several worker nodes. One major challenge in the distributed computations is to tackle delays and failures caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Muriel Médard

The introduction of the new multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing framework, has recently revealed how a parallel treatment of users can yield large parallelization gains with relatively low computation and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amir Masoud Jafarpisheh , Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

Distributed linearly separable computation is a fundamental problem in large-scale distributed systems, requiring the computation of linearly separable functions over different datasets across distributed workers. This paper studies a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Shuo Shao , Giuseppe Caire

This paper formulates a distributed computation problem, where a master asks $N$ distributed workers to compute a linearly separable function. The task function can be expressed as $K_c$ linear combinations of $K$ messages, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

This work addresses the problem of distributed computation of linearly separable functions, where a master node with access to $K$ datasets, employs $N$ servers to compute $L$ user-requested functions, each defined over the datasets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

This paper studies the distributed linearly separable computation problem, which is a generalization of many existing distributed computing problems such as distributed gradient descent and distributed linear transform. In this problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

The multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing problem is considered here, in which $N$ servers help to compute the real-valued functions requested by $K$ users, where each function can be written as a linear combination of up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ali Khalesi , Sajad Daei , Marios Kountouris , Petros Elia

This work establishes the fundamental limits of the classical problem of multi-user distributed computing of linearly separable functions. In particular, we consider a distributed computing setting involving $L$ users, each requesting a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

Inexpensive cloud services, such as serverless computing, are often vulnerable to straggling nodes that increase end-to-end latency for distributed computation. We propose and implement simple yet principled approaches for straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vipul Gupta , Dominic Carrano , Yaoqing Yang , Vaishaal Shankar , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

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

We consider the setting of a Master server, M, who possesses confidential data (e.g., personal, genomic or medical data) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The Master wants to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

In this work, we explore the problem of multi-user linearly-separable distributed computation, where $N$ servers help compute the desired functions (jobs) of $K$ users, and where each desired function can be written as a linear combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

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

Linear regression is a fundamental and primitive problem in supervised machine learning, with applications ranging from epidemiology to finance. In this work, we propose methods for speeding up distributed linear regression. We do so by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Neophytos Charalambides , Hessam Mahdavifar , Mert Pilanci , Alfred O. Hero

We consider a scenario involving computations over a massive dataset stored distributedly across multiple workers, which is at the core of distributed learning algorithms. We propose Lagrange Coded Computing (LCC), a new framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Netanel Raviv , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

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

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
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