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Due to the compelling efficiency in retrieval and storage, similarity-preserving hashing has been widely applied to approximate nearest neighbor search in large-scale image retrieval. However, existing methods have poor performance in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Qi Dai , Yupan Huang , Yilong Yin

Cloud computing is an important part of today's world because offloading computations is a method to reduce costs. In this paper, we investigate computing the Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

We propose a preimage attack against cryptographic hash functions based on the speedup enabled by quantum computing. Preimage resistance is a fundamental property cryptographic hash functions must possess. The motivation behind this work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Răzvan Roşie

A minimal perfect hash function (MPHF) maps a set of n keys to unique positions {1, ..., n}. Representing an MPHF requires at least 1.44 bits per key. ShockHash is a technique to construct an MPHF and requires just slightly more space. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Stefan Hermann

The era of Big Data has spawned unprecedented interests in developing hashing algorithms for efficient storage and fast nearest neighbor search. Most existing work learn hash functions that are numeric quantizations of feature values in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Kai Li , Guojun Qi , Jun Ye , Kien A. Hua

Recently, hashing methods have been widely used in large-scale image retrieval. However, most existing hashing methods did not consider the hierarchical relation of labels, which means that they ignored the rich information stored in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Dan Wang , Heyan Huang , Chi Lu , Bo-Si Feng , Liqiang Nie , Guihua Wen , Xian-Ling Mao

Recent years have seen more and more demand for a unified framework to address multiple realistic image retrieval tasks concerning both category and attributes. Considering the scale of modern datasets, hashing is favorable for its low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Haomiao Liu , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a promising privacy-preserving technique for cross-silo federated learning (FL), where organizations perform collaborative model training on decentralized data. Despite the strong privacy guarantee, general HE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Zhifeng Jiang , Wei Wang , Yang Liu

Recent advances in random linear systems on finite fields have paved the way for the construction of constant-time data structures representing static functions and minimal perfect hash functions using less space with respect to existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Marco Genuzio , Giuseppe Ottaviano , Sebastiano Vigna

High-dimensional malware datasets often exhibit feature redundancy, instability, and scalability limitations, which hinder the effectiveness and interpretability of machine learning-based malware detection systems. Although feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ajvad Haneef K , Karan Kuwar Singh , Madhu Kumar S D

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables private inference by evaluating neural networks on encrypted data. In this way, we can delegate the computation to a third party server without ever revealing the user's data. Currently, the CKKS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Philipp Kern , Lorenzo Rovida , Samuel Teuber , Edoardo Manino , Carsten Sinz , Alberto Leporati

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a widely accepted framework for privacy-preserving data collection. In LDP, many protocols rely on hash functions to implement user-side encoding and perturbation. However, the security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Berkay Kemal Balioglu , Alireza Khodaie , Mehmet Emre Gursoy

Huffman coding finds an optimal prefix code for a given probability mass function. Consider situations in which one wishes to find an optimal code with the restriction that all codewords have lengths that lie in a user-specified set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-03 Michael B. Baer

Cayley hash functions are cryptographic hashes constructed from Cayley graphs of groups. The hash function proposed by Shpilrain and Sosnovski (2016), based on linear functions over a finite field, was proven insecure. This paper shows that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Bianca Sosnovski

Recent years have witnessed wide application of hashing for large-scale image retrieval. However, most existing hashing methods are based on hand-crafted features which might not be optimally compatible with the hashing procedure. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Wu-Jun Li , Sheng Wang , Wang-Cheng Kang

Privacy-preserving federated learning (PPFL) aims to train a global model for multiple clients while maintaining their data privacy. However, current PPFL protocols exhibit one or more of the following insufficiencies: considerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Wenhan Dong , Chao Lin , Xinlei He , Shengmin Xu , Xinyi Huang

In a functional encryption (FE) scheme, a user that holds a ciphertext and a function key can learn the result of applying the function to the plaintext message. Security requires that the user does not learn anything beyond the function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Arthur Mehta , Anne Müller

Huffman compression is a statistical, lossless, data compression algorithm that compresses data by assigning variable length codes to symbols, with the more frequently appearing symbols given shorter codes than the less. This work is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-11 R. L. Cloud , M. L. Curry , H. L. Ward , A. Skjellum , P. Bangalore

This paper proposes a fully homomorphic encryption encapsulated difference expansion (FHEE-DE) scheme for reversible data hiding in encrypted domain (RDH-ED). In the proposed scheme, we use key-switching and bootstrapping techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Yan Ke , Min-qing Zhang , Jia Liu , Ting-ting Su , Xiao-yuan Yang

A minimal perfect hash function bijectively maps a key set $S$ out of a universe $U$ into the first $|S|$ natural numbers. Minimal perfect hash functions are used, for example, to map irregularly-shaped keys, such as string, in a compact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Emmanuel Esposito , Thomas Mueller Graf , Sebastiano Vigna