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cs.DS2018
High Dimensional Discrete Integration over the Hypergrid
Raj Kumar Maity, Arya Mazumdar, Soumyabrata Pal
Recently Ermon et al. (2013) pioneered a way to practically compute approximations to large scale counting or discrete integration problems by using random hashes. The hashes are u…
stat.ML2018
Robust Gradient Descent via Moment Encoding with LDPC Codes
Raj Kumar Maity, Ankit Singh Rawat, Arya Mazumdar
This paper considers the problem of implementing large-scale gradient descent algorithms in a distributed computing setting in the presence of {\em straggling} processors. To mitig…