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Distributed multi-task learning (DMTL) effectively improves model generalization performance through the collaborative training of multiple related models. However, in large-scale learning scenarios, communication bottlenecks severely limit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Minquan Cheng , Yongkang Wang , Lingyu Zhang , Youlong Wu

Mobile edge learning is an emerging technique that enables distributed edge devices to collaborate in training shared machine learning models by exploiting their local data samples and communication and computation resources. To deal with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-31 Xiaoran Cai , Xiaopeng Mo , Junyang Chen , Jie Xu

Distributed matrix multiplication is widely used in several scientific domains. It is well recognized that computation times on distributed clusters are often dominated by the slowest workers (called stragglers). Recent work has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Li Tang , Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

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

Federated learning (FL) has attracted much attention as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework, where many clients collaboratively train a machine learning model by exchanging model updates with a parameter server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yuchang Sun , Jiawei Shao , Songze Li , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

This paper introduces REDC, a comprehensive strategy for offloading computational tasks within mobile Edge Networks (EN) to Distributed Computing (DC) after Rateless Encoding (RE). Despite the efficiency, reliability, and scalability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhongfu Guo , Xinsheng Ji , Wei You , Yu Zhao , Bai Yi , Lingwei Wang

Large language model (LLM) training is one of the most demanding distributed computations today, often requiring thousands of GPUs with frequent synchronization across machines. Such a workload pattern makes it susceptible to stragglers,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jinkun Lin , Ziheng Jiang , Zuquan Song , Sida Zhao , Menghan Yu , Zhanghan Wang , Chenyuan Wang , Zuocheng Shi , Xiang Shi , Wei Jia , Zherui Liu , Shuguang Wang , Haibin Lin , Xin Liu , Aurojit Panda , Jinyang Li

We consider the problem of tracking the state of a process that evolves over time in a distributed setting, with multiple observers each observing parts of the state, which is a fundamental information processing problem with a wide range…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Albin Severinson , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Building on the previous work of Lee et al. and Ferdinand et al. on coded computation, we propose a sequential approximation framework for solving optimization problems in a distributed manner. In a distributed computation system, latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jingge Zhu , Ye Pu , Vipul Gupta , Claire Tomlin , Kannan Ramchandran

Datacenters execute large computational jobs, which are composed of smaller tasks. A job completes when all its tasks finish, so stragglers -- rare, yet extremely slow tasks -- are a major impediment to datacenter performance. Accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yi Ding , Avinash Rao , Hyebin Song , Rebecca Willett , Henry Hoffmann

Synchronous federated learning scales poorly due to the straggler effect. Asynchronous algorithms increase the update throughput by processing updates upon arrival, but they introduce two fundamental challenges: gradient staleness, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Abdelkrim Alahyane , Céline Comte , Matthieu Jonckheere

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging technique that allows nodes on the web to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data. Dealing with stragglers, i.e., nodes with slower compute or communication than…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexis Marouani , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos

Distributed model training needs to be adapted to challenges such as the straggler effect and Byzantine attacks. When coordinating the training process with multiple computing nodes, ensuring timely and reliable gradient aggregation amidst…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiahe Yan , Pratik Chaudhari , Leonard Kleinrock

Elasticity is offered by cloud service providers to exploit under-utilized computing resources. The low-cost elastic nodes can leave and join any time during the computation cycle. The possibility of elastic events occurring together with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Shahrzad Kiani , Tharindu Adikari , Stark C. Draper

While distributed training significantly speeds up the training process of the deep neural network (DNN), the utilization of the cluster is relatively low due to the time-consuming data synchronizing between workers. To alleviate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yuhao Zhou , Qing Ye , Hailun Zhang , Jiancheng Lv

To gain a better performance, many researchers put more computing resource into an application. However, in the AI area, there is still a lack of a successful large-scale machine learning training application: The scalability and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Daning Cheng , Hanping Zhang , Fen Xia , Shigang Li , Yunquan Zhang

Gradient coding is a coding theoretic framework to provide robustness against slow or unresponsive machines, known as stragglers, in distributed machine learning applications. Recently, Kadhe et al. proposed a gradient code based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Animesh Sakorikar , Lele Wang

When using stochastic gradient descent to solve large-scale machine learning problems, a common practice of data processing is to shuffle the training data, partition the data across multiple machines if needed, and then perform several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-02 Qi Meng , Wei Chen , Yue Wang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Tie-Yan Liu

Distributed machine learning workloads use data and tensor parallelism for training and inference, both of which rely on the AllReduce collective to synchronize gradients or activations. However, AllReduce algorithms are delayed by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Arjun Devraj , Eric Ding , Abhishek Vijaya Kumar , Robert Kleinberg , Rachee Singh

A rich body of prior work has highlighted the existence of communication bottlenecks in synchronous data-parallel training. To alleviate these bottlenecks, a long line of recent work proposes gradient and model compression methods. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Saurabh Agarwal , Hongyi Wang , Shivaram Venkataraman , Dimitris Papailiopoulos