A comprehensive survey on coded distributed computing: Fundamentals, challenges, and networking applications

JS Ng, WYB Lim, NC Luong, Z Xiong… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed computing has become a common approach for large-scale computation tasks
due to benefits such as high reliability, scalability, computation speed, and cost …

Short-dot: Computing large linear transforms distributedly using coded short dot products

S Dutta, V Cadambe, P Grover - Advances In Neural …, 2016 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Faced with saturation of Moore's law and increasing size and dimension of data, system
designers have increasingly resorted to parallel and distributed computing to reduce …

On the optimal recovery threshold of coded matrix multiplication

S Dutta, M Fahim, F Haddadpour… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We provide novel coded computation strategies for distributed matrix-matrix products that
outperform the recent “Polynomial code” constructions in recovery threshold, ie, the required …

Communication-computation efficient gradient coding

M Ye, E Abbe - International Conference on Machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper develops coding techniques to reduce the running time of distributed learning
tasks. It characterizes the fundamental tradeoff to compute gradients in terms of three …

Entangled polynomial codes for secure, private, and batch distributed matrix multiplication: Breaking the" cubic" barrier

Q Yu, AS Avestimehr - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of
the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In …

A unified coded deep neural network training strategy based on generalized polydot codes

S Dutta, Z Bai, H Jeong, TM Low… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper has two main contributions. First, we propose a novel coding technique-
Generalized PolyDot-for matrix-vector products that advances on existing techniques for …

Cross subspace alignment codes for coded distributed batch computation

Z Jia, SA Jafar - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of coded distributed computation is to efficiently distribute a computation task, such
as matrix multiplication, N-linear computation, or multivariate polynomial evaluation, across …

A hierarchical incentive design toward motivating participation in coded federated learning

JS Ng, WYB Lim, Z Xiong, X Cao… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving collaborative learning approach that trains
artificial intelligence (AI) models without revealing local datasets of the FL workers. While FL …

Rateless codes for near-perfect load balancing in distributed matrix-vector multiplication

A Mallick, M Chaudhari, U Sheth… - Abstracts of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Large-scale machine learning and data mining applications require computer systems to
perform massive matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication operations that need to be …

Hierarchical coding for distributed computing

H Park, K Lee, J Sohn, C Suh… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coding for distributed computing supports low-latency computation by relieving the burden
of straggling workers. While most existing works assume a simple master-worker model, we …