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In distributed machine learning, a central node outsources computationally expensive calculations to external worker nodes. The properties of optimization procedures like stochastic gradient descent (SGD) can be leveraged to mitigate the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Maximilian Egger , Serge Kas Hanna , Rawad Bitar

We present ErasureHead, a new approach for distributed gradient descent (GD) that mitigates system delays by employing approximate gradient coding. Gradient coded distributed GD uses redundancy to exactly recover the gradient at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Hongyi Wang , Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

This work focuses on the challenges of non-IID data and stragglers/dropouts in federated learning. We introduce and explore a privacy-flexible paradigm that models parts of the clients' local data as non-private, offering a more versatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Okko Makkonen , Sampo Niemelä , Camilla Hollanti , Serge Kas Hanna

Coded computation is a method to mitigate "stragglers" in distributed computing systems through the use of error correction coding that has lately received significant attention. First used in vector-matrix multiplication, the range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark Draper

In this paper, we propose an optimally structured gradient coding scheme to mitigate the straggler problem in distributed learning. Conventional gradient coding methods often assume homogeneous straggler models or rely on excessive data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

We consider distributed gradient descent in the presence of stragglers. Recent work on \em gradient coding \em and \em approximate gradient coding \em have shown how to add redundancy in distributed gradient descent to guarantee convergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Rawad Bitar , Mary Wootters , Salim El Rouayheb

Network slicing has emerged as an integral concept in 5G, aiming to partition the physical network infrastructure into isolated slices, customized for specific applications. We theoretically formulate the key performance metrics of an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Vipindev Adat Vasudevan , Benjamin D. Kim , Shruti Siva , Jennifer Kim , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Médard

To improve the utility of learning applications and render machine learning solutions feasible for complex applications, a substantial amount of heavy computations is needed. Thus, it is essential to delegate the computations among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

This paper deals with differentiable dynamical models congruent with neural process theories that cast brain function as the hierarchical refinement of an internal generative model explaining observations. Our work extends existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 André Ofner , Sebastian Stober

The emerging large-scale and data-hungry algorithms require the computations to be delegated from a central server to several worker nodes. One major challenge in the distributed computations is to tackle delays and failures caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Muriel Médard

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

Intra-session network coding has been shown to offer significant gains in terms of achievable throughput and delay in settings where one source multicasts data to several clients. In this paper, we consider a more general scenario where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

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

We focus on the commonly used synchronous Gradient Descent paradigm for large-scale distributed learning, for which there has been a growing interest to develop efficient and robust gradient aggregation strategies that overcome two key…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-30 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Saurav Prakash , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

In decentralized optimization over networks, each node in the network has a portion of the global objective function and the aim is to collectively optimize this function. Gradient tracking methods have emerged as a popular alternative for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

Asynchronous computation and gradient compression have emerged as two key techniques for achieving scalability in distributed optimization for large-scale machine learning. This paper presents a unified analysis framework for distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Sarit Khirirat , Hamid Reza Feyzmahdavian , Mikael Johansson

Exchanging gradients is a widely used method in modern multi-node machine learning system (e.g., distributed training, collaborative learning). For a long time, people believed that gradients are safe to share: i.e., the training data will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Ligeng Zhu , Zhijian Liu , Song Han

In recent years, network coding has been investigated as a method to obtain improvements in wireless networks. A typical assumption of previous work is that relay nodes performing network coding can decode the messages from sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sichao Yang , Ralf Koetter

This paper considers a new secure gradient coding problem with uncoded groupwise keys, formalized as a (K, N, N_r, M, S) secure gradient coding model, where a user aims to compute the sum of the gradients from K datasets with the assistance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xudong You , Kai Wan , Xiang Zhang , Wenbo Huang , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

Training deep neural networks on large datasets containing high-dimensional data requires a large amount of computation. A solution to this problem is data-parallel distributed training, where a model is replicated into several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Lusine Abrahamyan , Yiming Chen , Giannis Bekoulis , Nikos Deligiannis