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The existing distributed algorithms usually assume the data are homogeneously distributed across sites. This assumption ignores the important fact that the data collected at different sites may come from various subpopulations and environments, which can lead to heterogeneity in the distribution of the data. Ignoring the heterogeneity may lead to erroneous statistical inference. We propose distributed algorithms which account for the heterogeneous distributions by allowing site-specific nuisance parameters. The proposed methods extend the surrogate likelihood approach (Wang et al. 2017; Jordan et al. 2018) to the heterogeneous setting by applying a novel density ratio tilting method to the efficient score function. The proposed algorithms maintain the same communication cost as existing communication-efficient algorithms. We establish a nonasymptotic risk bound for the proposed distributed estimator and its limiting distribution in the two-index asymptotic setting, which allows both sample size per site and the number of sites to go to infinity. In addition, we show that the asymptotic variance of the estimator attains the Cram\u00e9r\u2013Rao lower bound when the number of sites is smaller in rate than the sample size at each site. 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