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We design a low complexity distributed compression scheme for computing arbitrary functions of sources with discrete alphabets. We use a helper-based method that extends the definition of the G{\'a}cs-K{\"o}rner-Witsenhausen (GKW) common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Derya Malak

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mahdi Soleymani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

We consider the following \textit{network computation problem}. In an acyclic network, there are multiple source nodes, each generating multiple messages, and there are multiple sink nodes, each demanding a function of the source messages.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Anindya Gupta , B. Sundar Rajan

We investigate the effect of omnipresent cloud storage on distributed computing. We specify a network model with links of prescribed bandwidth that connect standard processing nodes, and, in addition, passive storage nodes. Each passive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yehuda Afek , Gal Giladi , Boaz Patt-Shamir

Over-the-Air Computation (OAC) enables efficient data aggregation in large-scale distributed systems by exploiting the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. In contrast to most existing studies on OAC assuming exact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Martin Dahl , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Classical functional calculus is primarily spectral, capturing eigenvalue information through resolvent methods while largely ignoring nilpotent structure. Building on the projector-nilpotent characterization developed in our companion…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Shih-Yu Chang

Distributed applications, such as database queries and distributed training, consist of both compute and network tasks. DAG-based abstraction primarily targets compute tasks and has no explicit network-level scheduling. In contrast, Coflow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Weitao Wang , Sushovan Das , Xinyu Crystal Wu , Zhuang Wang , Ang Chen , T. S. Eugene Ng

We study dual-based algorithms for distributed convex optimization problems over networks, where the objective is to minimize a sum $\sum_{i=1}^{m}f_i(z)$ of functions over in a network. We provide complexity bounds for four different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-17 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

This paper investigates solving convex composite optimization on an undirected network, where each node, privately endowed with a smooth component function and a nonsmooth one, is required to minimize the sum of all the component functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Xuyang Wu , Jie Lu

Extending the lambda-calculus with a construct for sharing, such as let expressions, enables a special representation of terms: iterated applications are decomposed by introducing sharing points in between any two of them, reducing to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Beniamino Accattoli , Andrea Condoluci , Giulio Guerrieri , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

This article extends the preprint "Characterizing Agent-Based Model Dynamics via $\epsilon$-Machines and Kolmogorov-Style Complexity" by introducing diffusion models as orthogonal and complementary tools for characterizing the output of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Roberto Garrone

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

This paper introduces two architectures for the inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Both architectures exploit weight sparsity and compression to reduce computational complexity and bandwidth. The first architecture uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Vincenzo Liguori

This article presents an input convex neural network architecture using Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (ICKAN). Two specific networks are presented: the first is based on a low-order, linear-by-part, representation of functions, and a universal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-11 Thomas Deschatre , Xavier Warin

A memoryless state-dependent multiple-access channel (MAC) is considered, where two transmitters wish to convey their messages to a single receiver while simultaneously sensing (estimating) the respective states via generalized feedbacks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mehrasa Ahmadipour , Michele Wigger , Mari Kobayashi

In network function computation is as a means to reduce the required communication flow in terms of number of bits transmitted per source symbol. However, the rate region for the function computation problem in general topologies is an open…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Derya Malak , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

We introduce the new concept of computation coding. Similar to how rate-distortion theory is concerned with the lossy compression of data, computation coding deals with the lossy computation of functions. Particularizing to linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Ralf Müller , Bernhard Gäde , Ali Bereyhi

In this work, we study two problems: three-user Multiple-Access Channel (MAC) with correlated sources, and MAC with Feedback (MAC-FB) with independent messages. For the first problem, we identify a structure in the joint probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan

A representation-theoretic approach to special functions was developed in the 40-s and 50-s in the works of I.M.Gelfand, M.A.Naimark, N.Ya.Vilenkin, and their collaborators. The essence of this approach is the fact that most classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Pavel Etingof , Alexander Kirillov

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