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We address the problem of allocating limited resources in a network under persistent yet statistically unknown adversarial attacks. Each node in the network may be degraded, but not fully disabled, depending on its available defensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mansoor Davoodi , Setareh Maghsudi

We consider the following communication task in the multi-party setting, which involves a joint random variable $XYZMN$ with the property that $M$ is independent of $YZN$ conditioned on $X$ and $N$ is independent of $XZM$ conditioned on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Anurag Anshu , Penghui Yao

A decentralized search algorithm is a method of routing on a random graph that uses only limited, local, information about the realization of the graph. In some random graph models it is possible to define such algorithms which produce…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-04 Oskar Sandberg

A localized method to distribute paths on random graphs is devised, aimed at finding the shortest paths between given source/destination pairs while avoiding path overlaps at nodes. We propose a method based on message-passing techniques to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-17 Caterina De Bacco , Silvio Franz , David Saad , Chi Ho Yeung

In this paper we construct a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for the problem where a set of users is interested in gaining access to a common file, but where each has only partial knowledge of the file. We further assume the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Nebojsa Milosavljevic , Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Michael Gastpar , Kannan Ramchandran

We study the half-duplex multiple-relay channel (HD-MRC) where every node can either transmit or listen but cannot do both at the same time. We obtain a capacity upper bound based on a max-flow min-cut argument and achievable transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Lawrence Ong , Mehul Motani , Sarah J. Johnson

We consider a decentralized convex unconstrained optimization problem, where the cost function can be decomposed into a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions, associated with individual agents, interacting over a static or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Dmitry Metelev , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov , Anton Proskurnikov

We study a novel multi-terminal source coding setup motivated by the biclustering problem. Two separate encoders observe two i.i.d. sequences $X^n$ and $Y^n$, respectively. The goal is to find rate-limited encodings $f(x^n)$ and $g(z^n)$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida , Gerald Matz

This paper explores the distributed broadcast problem within the context of network communications, a critical challenge in decentralized information dissemination. We put forth a novel hypergraph-based approach to address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qi Cao , Yulin Shao , Fan Yang , Octavia A. Dobre

A practical and scalable multicast beamformer design in multi-input multi-output~(MIMO) coded caching~(CC) systems is introduced in this paper. The proposed approach allows multicast transmission to multiple groups with partially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

We consider the multi-access coded caching problem, which contains a central server with $N$ files, $K$ caches with $M$ units of memory each and $K$ users where each one is connected to $L (\geq 1)$ consecutive caches, with a cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Srinivas Reddy Kota , Nikhil Karamchandani

User dissatisfaction due to buffering pauses during streaming is a significant cost to the system, which we model as a non-decreasing function of the frequency of buffering pause. Minimization of total user dissatisfaction in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Akhil Bhimaraju , Atul A. Zacharias , Avhishek Chatterjee

This paper addresses the problem of exponentially increasing sub-packetization with the number of users in a centralized coded caching system by introducing a new coded caching scheme inspired by the symmetric neighboring consecutive side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

Index coding is often studied with the assumption that a single source has all the messages requested by the receivers. We refer to this as \emph{centralized} index coding. In contrast, this paper focuses on \emph{distributed} index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Parastoo Sadeghi

We study the following semi-deterministic setting of the joint source-channel coding problem: a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a. individual sequence) is transmitted via a memoryless channel, using delay-limited encoder and decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Neri Merhav

It is already known that in multicast (single source, multiple sinks) network, random linear network coding can achieve the maximum flow upper bound. In this paper, we investigate how random linear network coding behaves in general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Yuan Li

Stochastic matching is the stochastic version of the well-known matching problem, which consists in maximizing the rewards of a matching under a set of probability distributions associated with the nodes and edges. In most stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Yuya Hikima , Yasunori Akagi , Hideaki Kim

Clustering large datasets is a fundamental problem with a number of applications in machine learning. Data is often collected on different sites and clustering needs to be performed in a distributed manner with low communication. We would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jiecao Chen , He Sun , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

The Minimum Path Cover (MPC) problem consists of finding a minimum-cardinality set of node-disjoint paths that cover all nodes in a given graph. We explore a variant of the MPC problem on acyclic digraphs (DAGs) where, given a subset of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Roberto Baldacci