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 …

Coded computing: Mitigating fundamental bottlenecks in large-scale distributed computing and machine learning

S Li, S Avestimehr - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2020 - nowpublishers.com
We introduce the concept of “coded computing”, a novel computing paradigm that utilizes
coding theory to effectively inject and leverage data/computation redundancy to mitigate …

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 …

Stochastic gradient coding for straggler mitigation in distributed learning

R Bitar, M Wootters… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider distributed gradient descent in the presence of stragglers. Recent work on
gradient coding and approximate gradient coding have shown how to add redundancy in …

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 …

Coded sparse matrix computation schemes that leverage partial stragglers

AB Das, A Ramamoorthy - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed matrix computations over large clusters can suffer from the problem of slow or
failed worker nodes (called stragglers) which can dominate the overall job execution time …

Coding for large-scale distributed machine learning

M Xiao, M Skoglund - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article aims to give a comprehensive and rigorous review of the principles and recent
development of coding for large-scale distributed machine learning (DML). With increasing …