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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

In this paper we consider online distributed learning problems. Online distributed learning refers to the process of training learning models on distributed data sources. In our setting a set of agents need to cooperatively train a learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Apostolos I. Rikos , Karl H. Johansson

Network function computation is an active topic in network coding, with much recent progress for linear (over a finite field) computations over broadcast (LCBC) and multiple access (LCMAC) channels. Over a quantum multiple access channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

Economic dispatch and frequency regulation are typically viewed as fundamentally different problems in power systems and, hence, are typically studied separately. In this paper, we frame and study a joint problem that co- optimizes both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Desmond Cai , Enrique Mallada , Adam Wierman

The rapid growth in the size of large language models has necessitated the partitioning of computational workloads across accelerators such as GPUs, TPUs, and NPUs. However, these parallelization strategies incur substantial data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Rezaul Karim , Austin Wen , Wang Zongzuo , Weiwei Zhang , Yang Liu , Walid Ahmed

An interactive function computation problem in a collocated network is studied in a distributed block source coding framework. With the goal of computing a desired function at the sink, the source nodes exchange messages through a sequence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar

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

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

Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) enables untrusted parties to jointly compute a function without revealing their inputs. Its application to machine learning (ML) has gained significant attention, particularly for secure inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Tingting Tang , Yongqin Wang , Murali Annavaram

This paper proposes a novel user cooperation approach in both computation and communication for mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to improve the energy efficiency for latency-constrained computation. We consider a basic three-node MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Xiaowen Cao , Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

All-pairs compute problems apply a user-defined function to each combination of two items of a given data set. Although these problems present an abundance of parallelism, data reuse must be exploited to achieve good performance. Several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Stijn Heldens , Pieter Hijma , Ben van Werkhoven , Jason Maassen , Henri Bal , Rob van Nieuwpoort

This paper investigates a channel-coded multiuser system operated with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and interleaved division multiple-access (IDMA). To realize the potential advantage of OFDM-IDMA, two challenges must…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Taotao Wang , Soung Chang Liew

K-core decomposition is a commonly used metric to analyze graph structure or study the relative importance of nodes in complex graphs. Recent years have seen rapid growth in the scale of the graph, especially in industrial settings. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Shicheng Gao , Jie Xu , Xiaosen Li , Fangcheng Fu , Wentao Zhang , Wen Ouyang , Yangyu Tao , Bin Cui

We consider the problem of distributed computation of a target function over a multiple-access channel. If the target and channel functions are matched (i.e., compute the same function), significant performance gains can be obtained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Suhas Diggavi

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables service providers to maximize the business profit via resource-efficient QoS provisioning for customer requested Service Function Chains (SFCs). In recent applications, end-to-end delay is one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Fatemeh Yaghoubpour , Bahador Bakhshi , Fateme Seifi

In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to meet ever-increasing resource demands of mobile users, prolong battery lives of mobile devices, and shorten request response delays experienced by users. An MEC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Zhuang Wang , Weifa Liang , Meitian Huang , Yu Ma

Data heterogeneity is one of the major challenges in federated learning (FL), which results in substantial client variance and slow convergence. In this study, we propose a novel solution: decomposing a convolutional filter in FL into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wei Chen , Qiang Qiu

Implementing linear transformations is a key task in the decentralized signal processing framework, which performs learning tasks on data sets distributed over multi-node networks. That kind of network can be represented by a graph.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Siavash Mollaebrahim , Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

This paper considers the multi-parametric linear complementarity problem (pLCP) with sufficient matrices. The main result is an algorithm to find a polyhedral decomposition of the set of feasible parameters and to construct a piecewise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-16 Sebastiano Columbano , Komei Fukuda , Colin Jones