Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims alleviate bottlenecks of stragglers communication cost in computation. The data center assigns subset input datasets each server an uncoded manner, computes coded packets on assigned datasets, which are then sent user. should recover ta...

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