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Over 40% of computational power in Large Language Model (LLM) serving systems can be systematically wasted - not from hardware limits, but from load imbalance in barrier-synchronized parallel processing. When progress is gated by the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zixi Chen , Tianci Bu , Chendong Song , Xin Lu , Yinyu Ye , Zijie Zhou

In this paper, approximation schemes are proposed for handling load uncertainty in compliance-based topology optimization problems, where the uncertainty is described in the form of a set of finitely many loading scenarios. Efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mohamed Tarek , Tapabrata Ray

The research in parallel machine scheduling in combinatorial optimization suggests that the desirable parallel efficiency could be achieved when the jobs are sorted in the non-increasing order of processing times. In this paper, we find…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Lei Wang , Heng Liang , Fengshan Bai , Yan Huo

Sparse attention methods exploit the inherent sparsity in attention to speed up the prefilling phase of long-context inference, mitigating the quadratic complexity of full attention computation. While existing sparse attention methods rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dan Peng , Zhihui Fu , Zewen Ye , Zhuoran Song , Jun Wang

Coded caching is used to reduce network congestion during peak hours. A single server is connected to a set of users through a bottleneck link, which generally is assumed to be error-free. During non-peak hours, all the users have full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

We examine deterministic broadcasting on multiple-access channels for a scenario when packets are injected continuously by an adversary to the buffers of the devices at rate $\rho$ packages per round. The aim is to maintain system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Elijah Hradovich , Marek Klonowski , Dariusz R. Kowalski

We consider large scale distributed optimization over a set of edge devices connected to a central server, where the limited communication bandwidth between the server and edge devices imposes a significant bottleneck for the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Yujie Tang , Vikram Ramanathan , Junshan Zhang , Na Li

The conventional designs of mobile computation offloading fetch user-specific data to the cloud prior to computing, called offline prefetching. However, this approach can potentially result in excessive fetching of large volumes of data and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Seung-Woo Ko , Kaibin Huang , Seong-Lyun Kim , Hyukjin Chae

When multiple users share a common link in direct transmission, packet loss and network collision may occur due to the simultaneous arrival of traffics at the source node. To tackle this problem, users may resort to an indirect path: the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Qiong Liu , Chehao Wang , Ce Zheng

Consider a device that is connected to an edge processor via a communication channel. The device holds local data that is to be offloaded to the edge processor so as to train a machine learning model, e.g., for regression or classification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

We present a sparse analogue to stochastic gradient descent that is guaranteed to perform well under similar conditions to the lasso. In the linear regression setup with irrepresentable noise features, our algorithm recovers the support set…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Jacob Steinhardt , Stefan Wager , Percy Liang

The inevitable random frequency differences among semiconductor lasers present an obstacle to achieving their collective coherence, but previous worked showed that fully (all-to-all) coupled networks can still be synchronized even in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-06 Li-Li Ye , Nathan Vigne , Fan-Yi Lin , Hui Cao , Ying-Cheng Lai

In the first part of the series papers, we set out to answer the following question: given specific restrictions on a set of samplers, what kind of signal can be uniquely represented by the corresponding samples attained, as the foundation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hanshen Xiao , Yaowen Zhang , Guoqiang Xiao

Load balancing algorithms play a crucial role in delivering robust application performance in data centers and cloud networks. Recently, strong interest has emerged in Join-the-Idle-Queue (JIQ) algorithms, which rely on tokens issued by…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

We consider the problem of optimally compressing and caching data across a communication network. Given the data generated at edge nodes and a routing path, our goal is to determine the optimal data compression ratios and caching decisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jian Li , Faheem Zafari , Don Towsley , Kin K. Leung , Ananthram Swami

High-throughput satellite communication systems are growing in strategic importance thanks to their role in delivering broadband services to mobile platforms and residences and/or businesses in rural and remote regions globally. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Van-Phuc Bui , Trinh Van Chien , Eva Lagunas , Joël Grotz , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

A load balancer (LB) is a vital network function for cloud services to balance the load amongst resources. Stateful software LBs that run on commodity servers provides flexibility, cost-efficiency, and packet consistency. However current…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Shouqian Shi , Chen Qian , Ye Yu , Xin Li , Ying Zhang , Xiaozhou Li

Due to the limited number of traditional orthogonal pilots, pilot collision will severely degrade the performance of contention-based grant-free transmission. To alleviate the pilot collision and exploit the spatial degree of freedom as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Zhifeng Yuan , Zhigang Li , Weimin Li , Yihua Ma

The highly dynamic nature of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks introduces challenges that existing transport protocols fail to address, including non-congestive latency variation and loss, transient congestion hotspots, and frequent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Aiden Valentine , Ian Wakeman , George Parisis

Communication enables agents to cooperate to achieve their goals. Learning when to communicate, i.e., sparse (in time) communication, and whom to message is particularly important when bandwidth is limited. Recent work in learning sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Seth Karten , Mycal Tucker , Siva Kailas , Katia Sycara