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We consider a scenario involving computations over a massive dataset stored distributedly across multiple workers, which is at the core of distributed learning algorithms. We propose Lagrange Coded Computing (LCC), a new framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Netanel Raviv , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

We consider the problem of computing the convolution of two long vectors using parallel processing units in the presence of "stragglers". Stragglers refer to the small fraction of faulty or slow processors that delays the entire computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Sanghamitra Dutta , Viveck Cadambe , Pulkit Grover

Large-scale distributed learning aims at minimizing a loss function $L$ that depends on a training dataset with respect to a $d$-length parameter vector. The distributed cluster typically consists of a parameter server (PS) and multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sifat Munim , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enable low-capability edge nodes to cooperatively execute computation-intensive tasks. However, straggling edge nodes (stragglers) significantly degrade the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Houming Qiu , Kun Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Nguyen Cong Luong , Changyan Yi , Chen Dai

We consider distributed learning in the presence of slow and unresponsive worker nodes, referred to as stragglers. In order to mitigate the effect of stragglers, gradient coding redundantly assigns partial computations to the worker such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Luis Maßny , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Placement delivery arrays for distributed computing (Comp-PDAs) have recently been proposed as a framework to construct universal computing schemes for MapReduce-like systems. In this work, we extend this concept to systems with straggling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Qifa Yan , Michèle Wigger , Sheng Yang , Xiaohu Tang

We study scheduling of computation tasks across n workers in a large scale distributed learning problem with the help of a master. Computation and communication delays are assumed to be random, and redundant computations are assigned to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

We consider the problem of training a least-squares regression model on a large dataset using gradient descent. The computation is carried out on a distributed system consisting of a master node and multiple worker nodes. Such distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Songze Li , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Qian Yu , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , A. Salman Avestimehr

Within distributed learning, workers typically compute gradients on their assigned dataset chunks and send them to the parameter server (PS), which aggregates them to compute either an exact or approximate version of $\nabla L$ (gradient of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Ruoyu Meng , Vrinda S. Girimaji

Gradient coding is a distributed computing technique aiming to provide robustness against slow or non-responsive computing nodes, known as stragglers, while balancing the computational load for responsive computing nodes. Among existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxin Jiang , Wenqin Zhang , Lele Wang

Stragglers, Byzantine workers, and data privacy are the main bottlenecks in distributed cloud computing. Some prior works proposed coded computing strategies to jointly address all three challenges. They require either a large number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tingting Tang , Ramy E. Ali , Hanieh Hashemi , Tynan Gangwani , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

Coded distributed computing was recently introduced to mitigate the effect of stragglers on distributed computing. This paper combines ideas of approximate computing with coded computing to further accelerate computation. We propose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Shahrzad Kiani , Stark C. Draper

The current BigData era routinely requires the processing of large scale data on massive distributed computing clusters. Such large scale clusters often suffer from the problem of "stragglers", which are defined as slow or failed nodes. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Anindya Bijoy Das , Li Tang

Optimization in distributed networks plays a central role in almost all distributed machine learning problems. In principle, the use of distributed task allocation has reduced the computational time, allowing better response rates and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Chinwendu Enyioha

Gradient-based distributed learning in Parameter Server (PS) computing architectures is subject to random delays due to straggling worker nodes, as well as to possible communication bottlenecks between PS and workers. Solutions have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

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

Gradient descent algorithms are widely used in machine learning. In order to deal with huge volume of data, we consider the implementation of gradient descent algorithms in a distributed computing setting where multiple workers compute the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Haozhao Wang , Song Guo , Bin Tang , Ruixuan Li , Chengjie Li

Distributed implementations are crucial in speeding up large scale machine learning applications. Distributed gradient descent (GD) is widely employed to parallelize the learning task by distributing the dataset across multiple workers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Baturalp Buyukates , Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

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

Distributed gradient descent (DGD) is an efficient way of implementing gradient descent (GD), especially for large data sets, by dividing the computation tasks into smaller subtasks and assigning to different computing servers (CSs) to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus