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Coded computation is an emerging research area that leverages concepts from erasure coding to mitigate the effect of stragglers (slow nodes) in distributed computation clusters, especially for matrix computation problems. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Li Tang , Pascal O. Vontobel

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

Lagrange coded computation (LCC) is essential to solving problems about matrix polynomials in a coded distributed fashion; nevertheless, it can only solve the problems that are representable as matrix polynomials. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Navneet Agrawal , Yuqin Qiu , Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelakovic , Setareh Maghsudi , Slawomir Stanczak , Jingge Zhu

We introduce a variation of coded computation that ensures data security and master's privacy against workers, which is referred to as private secure coded computation. In private secure coded computation, the master needs to compute a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Minchul Kim , Jungwoo Lee

The problem of verifying multi-threaded execution against the memory consistency model of a processor is known to be an NP hard problem. However polynomial time algorithms exist that detect almost all failures in such execution. These are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Amitabha Roy , Stephan Zeisset , Charles J. Fleckenstein , John C. Huang

We consider a large-scale matrix multiplication problem where the computation is carried out using a distributed system with a master node and multiple worker nodes, where each worker can store parts of the input matrices. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling servers in distributed computing, with the following limitations: First, they increase decoding complexity. Second, they ignore computations carried out by straggling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

Coding for distributed computing supports low-latency computation by relieving the burden of straggling workers. While most existing works assume a simple master-worker model, we consider a hierarchical computational structure consisting of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Hyegyeong Park , Kangwook Lee , Jy-yong Sohn , Changho Suh , Jaekyun Moon

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

Dealing with the shear size and complexity of today's massive data sets requires computational platforms that can analyze data in a parallelized and distributed fashion. A major bottleneck that arises in such modern distributed computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-03 A. Salman Avestimehr , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Coded elastic computing enables virtual machines to be preempted for high-priority tasks while allowing new virtual machines to join ongoing computation seamlessly. This paper addresses coded elastic computing for matrix-matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Xi Zhong , Samuel Lu , Joerg Kliewer , Mingyue Ji

In this paper, we address the problem of secure distributed computation in scenarios where user data is not uniformly distributed, extending existing frameworks that assume uniformity, an assumption that is challenging to enforce in data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Saar Tarnopolsky , Zirui , Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Alejandro Cohen

Building on the previous work of Lee et al. and Ferdinand et al. on coded computation, we propose a sequential approximation framework for solving optimization problems in a distributed manner. In a distributed computation system, latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jingge Zhu , Ye Pu , Vipul Gupta , Claire Tomlin , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute a linearly separable function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims to alleviate the bottlenecks of stragglers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

In many high-dimensional problems,polynomial-time algorithms fall short of achieving the statistical limits attainable without computational constraints. A powerful approach to probe the limits of polynomial-time algorithms is to study the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Bertrand Even , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

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

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

We consider the distributed computing problem of multiplying a set of vectors with a matrix. For this scenario, Li et al. recently presented a unified coding framework and showed a fundamental tradeoff between computational delay and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Albin Severinson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes

In large scale distributed linear transform problems, coded computation plays an important role to effectively deal with "stragglers" (distributed computations that may get delayed due to few slow or faulty processors). We propose a coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Sinong Wang , Jiashang Liu , Ness Shroff , Pengyu Yang