OverSketch: Approximate Matrix Multiplication for the Cloud

6 Nov 2018  ·  Vipul Gupta, Shusen Wang, Thomas Courtade, Kannan Ramchandran ·

We propose OverSketch, an approximate algorithm for distributed matrix multiplication in serverless computing. OverSketch leverages ideas from matrix sketching and high-performance computing to enable cost-efficient multiplication that is resilient to faults and straggling nodes pervasive in low-cost serverless architectures. We establish statistical guarantees on the accuracy of OverSketch and empirically validate our results by solving a large-scale linear program using interior-point methods and demonstrate a 34% reduction in compute time on AWS Lambda.

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