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We propose a new capacity-achieving code for the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, and show that it has the minimum message size (being one less than the number of servers) and the minimum upload cost (being roughly linear in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Chao Tian , Hua Sun , Jun Chen

We introduce baseSPIDER and SPIDER, private information retrieval (PIR) schemes that embody two technical advancements. The baseSPIDER protocol operates with a single server and a stateful client that performs pre-processing and stores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ofir Dvir , Kali Hale , Javin Zipkin , Divyakant Agrawal , Dahlia Malkhi

The problem of PIR in graph-based replication systems has received significant attention in recent years. A systematic study was conducted by Sadeh, Gu, and Tamo, where each file is replicated across two servers and the storage topology is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Gennian Ge , Hao Wang , Zixiang Xu , Yijun Zhang

A Batch Private Information Retrieval (batch-PIR) scheme allows a client to retrieve multiple data items from a database without revealing them to the storage server(s). Most existing approaches for batch-PIR are based on batch codes, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Son Hoang Dau , Quang Cao , Rinaldo Gagiano , Duy Huynh , Xun Yi , Phuc Lu Le , Quang-Hung Luu , Emanuele Viterbo , Yu-Chih Huang , Jingge Zhu , Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Chen Feng

The widespread use of cloud computing services raises the question of how one can delegate the processing tasks to the untrusted distributed parties without breeching the privacy of its data and algorithms. Motivated by the algorithm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider the problem of downloading content from a cellular network where content is cached at the wireless edge while achieving privacy. In particular, we consider private information retrieval (PIR) of content from a library of files,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes , Linda Senigagliesi

In this paper, we consider the multi-server setting of Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information (PIR-PCSI) problem. In this problem, there is a database of $K$ messages whose copies are replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a mechanism for efficiently downloading messages while keeping the index of the desired message secret from the servers. PIR schemes have been extended to various scenarios with adversarial servers:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Atsushi Miki , Toshiyasu Matsushima

This paper introduces the problem of Private Information Retrieval with Reusable and Single-use Side Information (PIR-RSSI). In this problem, one or more remote servers store identical copies of a set of $K$ messages, and there is a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

In symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR), a user communicates with multiple servers to retrieve from them a message in a database, while not revealing the message index to any individual server (user privacy), and learning no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (W-PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a desired message from $N$ non-colluding servers in a way that the privacy leakage regarding the desired message's identity is less than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chengyuan Qian , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Tie Liu

We revisit the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) in settings where the database replication is modeled by a simple graph. Here, each vertex corresponds to a server, and a message is replicated on two servers if and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

In Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a client queries an n-bit database in order to retrieve an entry of her choice, while maintaining privacy of her query value. Chor, Goldreich, Kushilevitz, and Sudan showed that, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Ämin Baumeler , Anne Broadbent

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes enable users to securely retrieve files from a server without disclosing the content of their queries, thereby preserving their privacy. In 2008, Melchor and Gaborit proposed a PIR scheme that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Svenja Lage

Quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) is a protocol in which a user retrieves one of multiple files from $\mathsf{n}$ non-communicating servers by downloading quantum systems without revealing which file is retrieved. As variants of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi

This paper considers the problem of single-server single-message private information retrieval with coded side information (PIR-CSI). In this problem, there is a server storing a database, and a user which knows a linear combination of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Fatemeh Kazemi , Alex Sprintson

This work presents an algorithmic framework that uses linear programming to construct \emph{addition-based Private Information Retrieval (AB-PIR)} schemes, where retrieval is performed by downloading only linear combinations of message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Ningze Wang , Alex Sprintson

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) was first proposed by B. Chor, O. Goldreich, E. Kushilevitz and M. Sudan in their 1995 FOCS paper. For MDS coded distributed storage system private information retrieval was proposed and the capacity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hao Chen

A private information retrieval protocol (PIR) scheme under an arbitrary collusion pattern $\mathcal{P}$ enables a client to retrieve one message from a library of $K$ equal-sized messages duplicated in $N$ servers, while keeping the index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Guru S. Dornadula , Manikya Pant , Gowtham R. Kurri , Prasad Krishnan

Multi-server single-message private information retrieval is studied in the presence of side information. In this problem, $K$ independent messages are replicatively stored at $N$ non-colluding servers. The user wants to privately download…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Su Li , Michael Gastpar