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We introduce a new framework for distributed computing that extends and refines the standard master-worker approach of scheduling multi-threaded computations. In this framework, there are different roles: a supervisor, a source, a target,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 John Augustine , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

This paper presents a new achievable scheme for the K-user Linear Computation Broadcast Channel (K-LCBC). A K-LCBC comprises data stored on a server and K users, each aiming to retrieve a desired linear function of the data by leveraging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Matrix multiplication is one of the key operations in various engineering applications. Outsourcing large-scale matrix multiplication tasks to multiple distributed servers or cloud is desirable to speed up computation. However, security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

This work explores a distributed computing setting where $K$ nodes are assigned fractions (subtasks) of a computational task in order to perform the computation in parallel. In this setting, a well-known main bottleneck has been the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Emanuele Parrinello , Eleftherios Lampiris , Petros Elia

Consider a multi-cell mobile edge computing network, in which each user wishes to compute the product of a user-generated data matrix with a network-stored matrix. This is done through task offloading by means of input uploading,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Kuikui Li , Meixia Tao , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

In this paper, we consider a hierarchical distributed multi-task learning (MTL) system where distributed users wish to jointly learn different models orchestrated by a central server with the help of a layer of multiple relays. Since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Haoyang Hu , Songze Li , Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu

In this paper, we consider a secure multi-party computation problem (MPC), where the goal is to offload the computation of an arbitrary polynomial function of some massive private matrices (inputs) to a cluster of workers. The workers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Matrix-parametrized models, including multiclass logistic regression and sparse coding, are used in machine learning (ML) applications ranging from computer vision to computational biology. When these models are applied to large-scale ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Pengtao Xie , Jin Kyu Kim , Yi Zhou , Qirong Ho , Abhimanu Kumar , Yaoliang Yu , Eric Xing

Matrix-parametrized models, including multiclass logistic regression and sparse coding, are used in machine learning (ML) applications ranging from computer vision to computational biology. When these models are applied to large-scale ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Pengtao Xie , Jin Kyu Kim , Yi Zhou , Qirong Ho , Abhimanu Kumar , Yaoliang Yu , Eric Xing

In this paper, we study the problem of information-theoretic distributed multi-user point function, involving a trusted master node, $N \in \mathbb{N}$ server nodes, and $K\in \mathbb{N}$ users, where each user has access to the contents of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ali Khalesi , Bahareh Akhbari

Coded computing has proved to be useful in distributed computing. We have observed that almost all coded computing systems studied so far consider a setup of one master and some workers. However, recently emerging technologies such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Nastaran Abadi Khooshemehr , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Consider a system, including a user, $N$ servers, and $K$ basic functions which are known at all of the servers. Using the combination of those basic functions, it is possible to construct a wide class of functions. The user wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider the problem of private linear computation (PLC) in a distributed storage system. In PLC, a user wishes to compute a linear combination of $f$ messages stored in noncolluding databases while revealing no information about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

Coded distributed computing introduced by Li et al. in 2015 is an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. In particular, Li et al. show that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

We solve, in the typical-case sense, the multi-sender linearly-decomposable distributed computing problem introduced by tessellated distributed computing. We model real-valued encoders/decoders and demand matrices, and assess structural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ali Khalesi , Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi

The emerging large-scale and data-hungry algorithms require the computations to be delegated from a central server to several worker nodes. One major challenge in the distributed computations is to tackle delays and failures caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Muriel Médard

We consider a heterogeneous network with mobile edge computing, where a user can offload its computation to one among multiple servers. In particular, we minimize the system-wide computation overhead by jointly optimizing the individual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Quoc-Viet Pham , Tuan LeAnh , Nguyen H. Tran , Choong Seon Hong

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

Performing computations while maintaining privacy is an important problem in todays distributed machine learning solutions. Consider the following two set ups between a client and a server, where in setup i) the client has a public data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Praneeth Vepakomma , Julia Balla , Ramesh Raskar

Tensor operations, such as matrix multiplication, are central to large-scale machine learning applications. For user-driven tasks these operations can be carried out on a distributed computing platform with a master server at the user side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Malihe Aliasgari , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer