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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

Distributed matrix computations -- matrix-matrix or matrix-vector multiplications -- are well-recognized to suffer from the problem of stragglers (slow or failed worker nodes). Much of prior work in this area is (i) either sub-optimal in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Anindya B. Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , Namrata Vaswani

Codes are widely used in many engineering applications to offer robustness against noise. In large-scale systems there are several types of noise that can affect the performance of distributed machine learning algorithms -- straggler nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Kangwook Lee , Maximilian Lam , Ramtin Pedarsani , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Kannan Ramchandran

Inspired by a new coded computation algorithm for invertible functions, we propose Coded-InvNet a new approach to design resilient prediction serving systems that can gracefully handle stragglers or node failures. Coded-InvNet leverages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Tuan Dinh , Kangwook Lee

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

Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-03-06 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Yunnan Wu , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

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 computing is a method for mitigating straggling workers in a centralized computing network, by using erasure-coding techniques. Federated learning is a decentralized model for training data distributed across client devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Neophytos Charalambides , Mert Pilanci , Alfred Hero

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

Today's data centers have an abundance of computing resources, hosting server clusters consisting of as many as tens or hundreds of thousands of machines. To execute a complex computing task over a data center, it is natural to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling workers in distributed computing. However, most of the existing schemes require exact provisioning of the straggling behaviour and ignore the computations carried out by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

Coded distributed computing framework enables large-scale machine learning (ML) models to be trained efficiently in a distributed manner, while mitigating the straggler effect. In this work, we consider a multi-task assignment problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yuxuan Sun , Junlin Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Deniz Gündüz

Distributed computing, in which a resource-intensive task is divided into subtasks and distributed among different machines, plays a key role in solving large-scale problems. Coded computing is a recently emerging paradigm where redundancy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hoang Dau , Ryan Gabrys , Yu-Chih Huang , Chen Feng , Quang-Hung Luu , Eidah Alzahrani , Zahir Tari

Several network communication problems are highly related such as coded caching and distributed computation. The centralized coded caching focuses on reducing the network burden in peak times in a wireless network system and the coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Min Xu , Zixiang Xu , Gennian Ge , Min-Qian Liu

This work proposes the first strategy to make distributed training of neural networks resilient to computing errors, a problem that has remained unsolved despite being first posed in 1956 by von Neumann. He also speculated that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Sanghamitra Dutta , Ziqian Bai , Tze Meng Low , Pulkit Grover

Data shuffling between distributed cluster of nodes is one of the critical steps in implementing large-scale learning algorithms. Randomly shuffling the data-set among a cluster of workers allows different nodes to obtain fresh data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

Inexpensive cloud services, such as serverless computing, are often vulnerable to straggling nodes that increase end-to-end latency for distributed computation. We propose and implement simple yet principled approaches for straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vipul Gupta , Dominic Carrano , Yaoqing Yang , Vaishaal Shankar , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

Quantum error correction, which utilizes logical qubits that are encoded as redundant multiple physical qubits to find and correct errors in physical qubits, is indispensable for practical quantum computing. Surface code is considered to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Hoshitaro Ohnishi , Hideo Mukai

Large-scale distributed computing systems face two major bottlenecks that limit their scalability: straggler delay caused by the variability of computation times at different worker nodes and communication bottlenecks caused by shuffling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Distributed computing platforms typically assume the availability of reliable and dedicated connections among the processors. This work considers an alternative scenario, relevant for wireless data centers and federated learning, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Sukjong Ha , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang