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In this paper, we revisit the communication vs. distributed computing trade-off, studied within the framework of MapReduce in [1]. An implicit assumption in the aforementioned work is that each server performs all possible computations on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Mohammed Karmoose , Christina Fragouli

This work explores a distributed computing setting where $K$ nodes are assigned fractions (subtasks) of a computational task in order to perform the computation in parallel. In this setting, a well-known main bottleneck has been the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Emanuele Parrinello , Eleftherios Lampiris , 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

Coded computing has proved to be useful in distributed computing. We have observed that almost all coded computing systems studied so far consider a setup of one master and some workers. However, recently emerging technologies such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Nastaran Abadi Khooshemehr , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

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

How can we optimally trade extra computing power to reduce the communication load in distributed computing? We answer this question by characterizing a fundamental tradeoff between computation and communication in distributed computing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

The $K$ User Linear Computation Broadcast (LCBC) problem is comprised of $d$ dimensional data (from $\mathbb{F}_q$), that is fully available to a central server, and $K$ users, who require various linear computations of the data, and have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

In this work, we consider the problem of distributed computing of functions of structured sources, focusing on the classical setting of two correlated sources and one user that seeks the outcome of the function while benefiting from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Derya Malak

We study the scalability of consensus-based distributed optimization algorithms by considering two questions: How many processors should we use for a given problem, and how often should they communicate when communication is not free?…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Sean Lawlor , Michael G. Rabbat

The problem of distributed function computation is studied, where functions to be computed is not necessarily symbol-wise. A new method to derive a converse bound for distributed computing is proposed; from the structure of functions to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Shigeaki Kuzuoka , Shun Watanabe

We study the limits of communication efficiency for function computation in collocated networks within the framework of multi-terminal block source coding theory. With the goal of computing a desired function of sources at a sink, nodes…

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

The problem of computing functions of values at the nodes in a network in a totally distributed manner, where nodes do not have unique identities and make decisions based only on local information, has applications in sensor, peer-to-peer,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Damon Mosk-Aoyama , Devavrat Shah

Our work addresses the well-known open problem of distributed computing of bilinear functions of two correlated sources ${\bf A}$ and ${\bf B}$. In a setting with two nodes, with the first node having access to ${\bf A}$ and the second to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Derya Malak

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

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

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

Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs in parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge in the design of load balancing algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

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

We introduce the problem of private computation, comprised of $N$ distributed and non-colluding servers, $K$ independent datasets, and a user who wants to compute a function of the datasets privately, i.e., without revealing which function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar