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We propose a class of codes called random Khatri-Rao-Product (RKRP) codes for distributed matrix multiplication in the presence of stragglers. The main advantage of the proposed codes is that decoding of RKRP codes is highly numerically…
Randomization has emerged as a powerful set of tools for large-scale matrix and tensor decompositions. Randomized algorithms involve computing sketches with random matrices. A prevalent approach is to take the random matrix as a standard…
Rank-revealing matrix decompositions provide an essential tool in spectral analysis of matrices, including the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and related low-rank approximation techniques. QR with Column Pivoting (QRCP) is usually…
In a large-scale and distributed matrix multiplication problem $C=A^{\intercal}B$, where $C\in\mathbb{R}^{r\times t}$, the coded computation plays an important role to effectively deal with "stragglers" (distributed computations that may…
Factorizing large matrices by QR with column pivoting (QRCP) is substantially more expensive than QR without pivoting, owing to communication costs required for pivoting decisions. In contrast, randomized QRCP (RQRCP) algorithms have proven…
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…
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…
In this paper, a sparse Kronecker-product (SKP) coding scheme is proposed for unsourced multiple access. Specifically, the data of each active user is encoded as the Kronecker product of two component codewords with one being sparse and the…
We propose two coding schemes for distributed matrix multiplication in the presence of stragglers. These coding schemes are adaptations of LT codes and Raptor codes to distributed matrix multiplication and are termed \emph{factored LT (FLT)…
Sparse matricized tensor times Khatri-Rao product (MTTKRP) is one of the most computationally expensive kernels in sparse tensor computations. This work focuses on optimizing the MTTKRP operation on GPUs, addressing both performance and…
Straggler nodes are well-known bottlenecks of distributed matrix computations which induce reductions in computation/communication speeds. A common strategy for mitigating such stragglers is to incorporate Reed-Solomon based MDS (maximum…
Reliable and low latency multicast communication is important for future vehicular communication. Sparse random linear network coding approach used to ensure the reliability of multicast communication has been widely investigated. A…
Sparse Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product (spMTTKRP) is the bottleneck kernel of sparse tensor decomposition. In this work, we propose a GPU-based algorithm design to address the key challenges in accelerating spMTTKRP computation,…
We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We construct polynomial codes for SDMM by studying a…
Batched sparse (BATS) code is a class of batched network code that can achieve a close-to-optimal rate when an optimal degree distribution is provided. We observed that most probability masses in this optimal distribution are very small,…
Random projections reduce the dimension of a set of vectors while preserving structural information, such as distances between vectors in the set. This paper proposes a novel use of row-product random matrices in random projection, where we…
We consider the problem of sparse matrix multiplication by the column row method in a distributed setting where the matrix product is not necessarily sparse. We present a surprisingly simple method for "consistent" parallel processing of…
We consider the problem of designing a coding scheme that allows both sparsity and privacy for distributed matrix-vector multiplication. Perfect information-theoretic privacy requires encoding the input sparse matrices into matrices…
Tensor decomposition has become an essential tool in many applications in various domains, including machine learning. Sparse Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product (MTTKRP) is one of the most computationally expensive kernels in tensor…
One popular way to compute the CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition of a tensor is to transform the problem into a sequence of overdetermined least squares subproblems with Khatri-Rao product (KRP) structure involving factor matrices. In…