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Recently, coding has been a useful technique to mitigate the effect of stragglers in distributed computing. However, coding in this context has been mainly explored under the assumption of homogeneous workers, although the real-world…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 DaeJin Kim , Hyegyeong Park , Junkyun Choi

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…

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Distributed computation is a framework used to break down a complex computational task into smaller tasks and distributing them among computational nodes. Erasure correction codes have recently been introduced and have become a popular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Royee Yosibash , Ram Zamir

This document describes an attempt to develop a compiler-based approach for computations with symmetric tensors. Given a computation and the symmetries of its input tensors, we derive formulas for random access under a storage scheme that…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jessica Shi , Stephen Chou , Fredrik Kjolstad , Saman Amarasinghe

In distributed computing systems with stragglers, various forms of redundancy can improve the average delay performance. We study the optimal replication of data in systems where the job execution time is a stochastically decreasing and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin

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

Coded computing is a distributed paradigm that uses coding theory to introduce \textit{redundancy} and overcome bottlenecks in large-scale systems. In the same vein, randomized numerical linear algebra employs probabilistic methods to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Neophytos Charalambides , Arya Mazumdar

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

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 computing has demonstrated promising results in addressing straggler resiliency in distributed computing systems. However, most coded computing schemes are designed for exact computation, requiring the number of responding servers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Within distributed learning, workers typically compute gradients on their assigned dataset chunks and send them to the parameter server (PS), which aggregates them to compute either an exact or approximate version of $\nabla L$ (gradient of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Ruoyu Meng , Vrinda S. Girimaji

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…

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We study the problem of computing matrix chain multiplications in a distributed computing cluster. In such systems, performance is often limited by the straggler problem, where the slowest worker dominates the overall computation latency.…

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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

Parallel tensor network contraction algorithms have emerged as the pivotal benchmarks for assessing the classical limits of computation, exemplified by Google's demonstration of quantum supremacy through random circuit sampling. However,…

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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

In distributed computing systems slow working nodes, known as stragglers, can greatly extend finishing times. Coded computing is a technique that enables straggler-resistant computation. Most coded computing techniques presented to date…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

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…

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Tensor network codes enable structured construction and manipulation of stabilizer codes out of small seed codes. Here, we apply reinforcement learning to tensor network code geometries and demonstrate how optimal stabilizer codes can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Caroline Mauron , Terry Farrelly , Thomas M. Stace

Master-worker distributed computing systems use task replication in order to mitigate the effect of slow workers, known as stragglers. Tasks are grouped into batches and assigned to one or more workers for execution. We first consider the…

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