Hierarchical coding for distributed computing

H Park, K Lee, J Sohn, C Suh… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2018ieeexplore.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
consider a hierarchical computational structure consisting of groups of workers, motivated by
the need to reflect the architectures of real-world distributed computing systems. In this work,
we propose a hierarchical coding scheme for this model, as well as analyze its decoding
cost and expected computation time. Specifically, we first provide upper and lower bounds …
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 consider a hierarchical computational structure consisting of groups of workers, motivated by the need to reflect the architectures of real-world distributed computing systems. In this work, we propose a hierarchical coding scheme for this model, as well as analyze its decoding cost and expected computation time. Specifically, we first provide upper and lower bounds on the expected computing time of the proposed scheme. We also show that our scheme enables efficient parallel decoding, thus reducing decoding costs by orders of magnitude over non-hierarchical schemes. When considering both decoding cost and computing time, the proposed hierarchical coding is shown to outperform existing schemes in many practical scenarios.
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