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Straggler mitigation in distributed matrix multiplication: fundamental limits and optimal coding

Yu, Q ; Sharif University of Technology | 2020

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2019.2963864
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc , 2020
  4. Abstract:
  5. We consider the problem of massive matrix multiplication, which underlies many data analytic applications, in a large-scale distributed system comprising a group of worker nodes. We target the stragglers' delay performance bottleneck, which is due to the unpredictable latency in waiting for slowest nodes (or stragglers) to finish their tasks. We propose a novel coding strategy, named entangled polynomial code, for designing the intermediate computations at the worker nodes in order to minimize the recovery threshold (i.e., the number of workers that we need to wait for in order to compute the final output). We demonstrate the optimality of entangled polynomial code in several cases, and show that it provides orderwise improvement over the conventional schemes for straggler mitigation. Furthermore, we characterize the optimal recovery threshold among all linear coding strategies within a factor of 2 using bilinear complexity, by developing an improved version of the entangled polynomial code. In particular, while evaluating bilinear complexity is a well-known challenging problem, we show that optimal recovery threshold for linear coding strategies can be approximated within a factor of 2 of this fundamental quantity. On the other hand, the improved version of the entangled polynomial code enables further and orderwise reduction in the recovery threshold, compared to its basic version. Finally, we show that the techniques developed in this paper can also be extended to several other problems such as coded convolution and fault-Tolerant computing, leading to tight characterizations. © 1963-2012 IEEE
  6. Keywords:
  7. Distributed computing ; Codes (symbols) ; Distributed computer systems ; Fault tolerant computer systems ; Optimal systems ; Polynomials ; Recovery ; Bilinear complexity ; Coded computing ; Conventional schemes ; Distributed matrix ; Large-scale distributed system ; MAtrix multiplication ; Recovery thresholds ; Straggler mitigation ; Matrix algebra
  8. Source: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ; Volume 66, Issue 3 , 2020 , Pages 1920-1933
  9. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8949560