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Artur Czumaj, Peter Davies-Peck, Merav Parter
In this paper, we study the power and limitations of component-stable algorithms in the low-space model of massively parallel computation (MPC). Recently Ghaffari, Kuhn and Uitto (FOCS 2019) introduced the class of component-stable low-space MPC algorithms, which are, informally, those algorithms for which the outputs…
Matthias Volk, Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Saba Aflaki
Randomization is a key concept in distributed computing to tackle impossibility results. This also holds for self-stabilization in anonymous networks where coin flips are often used to break symmetry. Although the use of randomization in self-stabilizing algorithms is rather common, it is unclear what the optimal coin…
Bin Fan, Bin Tang, Zhihao Qu, Baoliu Ye + 1 more
In wireless distributed computing systems, worker nodes connect to a master node wirelessly and perform large-scale computational tasks that are parallelized across them. However, the common phenomenon of straggling (i.e., worker nodes often experience unpredictable slowdown during computation and communication) and…
Derya Malak, Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi, Berksan Serbetci, Petros Elia + 2 more
'Petros Elia' 'Chintha Tellambura' 'Jun Chen'] The work here studies the communication cost for a multi-server multi-task distributed computation framework, as well as for a broad class of functions and data statistics. Considering the framework where a user seeks the computation of multiple complex (conceivably…
Amit Shahar, Yuval Alfassi, Daniel Keren, Hector Zenil
The empirical entropy is a key statistical measure of data frequency vectors, enabling one to estimate how diverse the data are. From the computational point of view, it is important to quickly compute, approximate, or bound the entropy. In a distributed system, the representative (“global”) frequency vector is the…
Dennis Komm, Rastislav Královič, Richard Královič, Tobias Mömke
We study the relationship between the competitive ratio and the tail distribution of randomized online problems. To this end, we identify a broad class of online problems for which the existence of a randomized online algorithm with constant expected competitive ratio r implies the existence of a randomized online…
Sven Warris, Sander Boymans, Iwe Muiser, Michiel Noback + 2 more
'Wim Krijnen' 'Jan-Peter Nap'] Background Small RNAs are important regulators of genome function, yet their prediction in genomes is still a major computational challenge. Statistical analyses of pre-miRNA sequences indicated that their 2D structure tends to have a minimal free energy (MFE) significantly lower than MFE…
Emre Ozfatura, Sennur Ulukus, Deniz Gündüz
When gradient descent (GD) is scaled to many parallel workers for large-scale machine learning applications, its per-iteration computation time is limited by straggling workers. Straggling workers can be tolerated by assigning redundant computations and/or coding across data and computations, but in most existing…
Xabier Insausti, Jesús Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Marta Zárraga-Rodríguez, Pedro M. Crespo
'Pedro M. Crespo'] In a network, a distributed consensus algorithm is fully characterized by its weighting matrix. Although there exist numerical methods for obtaining the optimal weighting matrix, we have not found an in-network implementation of any of these methods that works for all network topologies. In this…
Yongcheng Yang, Yifei Huang, Xiaohuan Qin, Shenglian Lu + 3 more
'Yanlin Geng' 'Youlong Wu' 'Ling Liu'] Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a powerful approach to reduce the communication overhead in distributed computing frameworks by utilizing coding techniques. In this paper, we focus on the CDC problem in $(H,L)$-combination networks, where H APs act as intermediate pivots and…
Alvaro Estebanez, Diego R. Llanos, David Orden, Belen Palop + 1 more
'Rafael Sachetto Oliveira'] Loops are a rich source of parallelism. Unfortunately, many loops cannot be safely parallelized at compile time because the compiler is not able to guarantee that there will be no dependence violations. Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) techniques, either hardware or software-based, allow the…
Ping Zhang, Wenjun Li, Hua Sun, Francesco Pappalardo
Secure aggregation is an essential component of modern distributed applications and data mining platforms. Aggregated statistical results are typically adopted in constructing a data cube for data analysis at multiple abstraction levels in data warehouse platforms. Generating different types of statistical results…
Andrew J. Page, Thomas M. Keane, Thomas J. Naughton
We present a multi-heuristic evolutionary task allocation algorithm to dynamically map tasks to processors in a heterogeneous distributed system. It utilizes a genetic algorithm, combined with eight common heuristics, in an effort to minimize the total execution time. It operates on batches of unmapped tasks and can…