Building on the previous work of Lee et al.[2] and Ferdinand et al.[3] on coded computation,
we propose a sequential approximation framework for solving optimization problems in a
distributed manner. In a distributed computation system, latency caused by individual
processors (“stragglers”) usually causes a significant delay in the overall process. The
proposed method is powered by a sequential computation scheme, which is designed
specifically for systems with stragglers. This scheme has the desirable property that the user …