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We consider a distributed computing system in which a master node coordinates $N$ workers to evaluate a function over $n$ input files, where this function accepts general decomposition. In particular, we focus on the general case where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Javad Maheri , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Petros Elia

The introduction of the new multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing framework, has recently revealed how a parallel treatment of users can yield large parallelization gains with relatively low computation and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amir Masoud Jafarpisheh , Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

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

We consider the problem of computing the Fourier transform of high-dimensional vectors, distributedly over a cluster of machines consisting of a master node and multiple worker nodes, where the worker nodes can only store and process a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider a recently proposed \emph{supervised distributed computing} paradigm \cite{augustine2025supervised} that extends and refines the standard master-worker paradigm for parallel computations. In this paradigm, there is a supervisor,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 John Augustine , Henning Hillebrandt , Manish Kumar , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

The distributed matrix multiplication problem with an unknown number of stragglers is considered, where the goal is to efficiently and flexibly obtain the product of two massive matrices by distributing the computation across N servers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Weiqi Li , Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed A. Jafar , Hamid Jafarkhani

This paper considers an $N$-server distributed computing setting with $K$ users requesting functions that are arbitrary multivariable polynomial evaluations of $L$ real (potentially non-linear) basis subfunctions, where each function output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ali Khalesi , Ahmad Tanha , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

A distributed machine learning platform needs to recruit many heterogeneous worker nodes to finish computation simultaneously. As a result, the overall performance may be degraded due to straggling workers. By introducing redundancy into…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Ningning Ding , Zhixuan Fang , Lingjie Duan , Jianwei Huang

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

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This thesis is concerned with the design of distributed algorithms for solving optimization problems. We consider networks where each node has exclusive access to a cost function, and design algorithms that make all nodes cooperate to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 João F. C. Mota

In this paper, we explore statistical versus computational trade-off to address a basic question in the application of a distributed algorithm: what is the minimal computational cost in obtaining statistical optimality? In smoothing spline…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Zuofeng Shang , Guang Cheng

In network function computation is as a means to reduce the required communication flow in terms of number of bits transmitted per source symbol. However, the rate region for the function computation problem in general topologies is an open…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Derya Malak , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

We study the expected completion time of some recently proposed algorithms for distributed computing which redundantly assign computing tasks to multiple machines in order to tolerate a certain number of machine failures. We analytically…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin

Distributed learning platforms for processing large scale data-sets are becoming increasingly prevalent. In typical distributed implementations, a centralized master node breaks the data-set into smaller batches for parallel processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Mohamed Attia , Ravi Tandon

In large scale distributed computing systems, communication overhead is one of the major bottlenecks. In the map-shuffle-reduce framework, which is one of the major distributed computing frameworks, the communication load among servers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shunsuke Horii

Data shuffling of training data among different computing nodes (workers) has been identified as a core element to improve the statistical performance of modern large-scale machine learning algorithms. Data shuffling is often considered as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire , Pablo Piantanida

Inspired by the great success of machine learning in the past decade, people have been thinking about the possibility of improving the theoretical results by exploring data distribution. In this paper, we revisit a fundamental problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Hao Wu , Junhao Gan , Rui Zhang

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