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Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

In this paper, we present secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) schemes over the complex numbers with good numerical stability and small mutual information leakage by utilizing polynomial interpolation with roots of unity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti

In this paper, we study the problem of secure and private distributed matrix multiplication. Specifically, we focus on a scenario where a user wants to compute the product of a confidential matrix $A$, with a matrix $B_\theta$, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

Computationally efficient matrix multiplication is a fundamental requirement in various fields, including and particularly in data analytics. To do so, the computation task of a large-scale matrix multiplication is typically outsourced to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jaber Kakar , Seyedhamed Ebadifar , Aydin Sezgin

Federated Learning (FL) solutions with central Differential Privacy (DP) have seen large improvements in their utility in recent years arising from the matrix mechanism, while FL solutions with distributed (more private) DP have lagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Alexander Bienstock , Ujjwal Kumar , Antigoni Polychroniadou

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a distributed protocol to manage trust diffusion in ad hoc networks. In this protocol, each node i maintains a \trust value" about an other node j which is computed both as a result of the exchanges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-01-22 Michel Morvan , Sylvain Sené

In this paper, we consider a secure multi-party computation problem (MPC), where the goal is to offload the computation of an arbitrary polynomial function of some massive private matrices (inputs) to a cluster of workers. The workers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider the problem of private distributed multi-party multiplication. It is well-established that Shamir secret-sharing coding strategies can enable perfect information-theoretic privacy in distributed computation via the celebrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Viveck R. Cadambe , Ateet Devulapalli , Haewon Jeong , Flavio P. Calmon

We study two problems of private matrix multiplication, over a distributed computing system consisting of a master node, and multiple servers that collectively store a family of public matrices using Maximum-Distance-Separable (MDS) codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jinbao Zhu , Songze Li , Jie Li

This paper considers the problem of outsourcing the multiplication of two private and sparse matrices to untrusted workers. Secret sharing schemes can be used to tolerate stragglers and guarantee information-theoretic privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Maximilian Egger , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

To preserve data privacy, multi-party computation (MPC) enables executing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms on private data. However, MPC frameworks do not include optimized operations on sparse data. This absence makes them unsuitable for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter , Jan Ramon

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

Recent developments in cloud storage architectures have originated new models of online storage as cooperative storage systems and interconnected clouds. Such distributed environments involve many organizations, thus ensuring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Marco Baldi , Alessandro Cucchiarelli , Linda Senigagliesi , Luca Spalazzi , Francesco Spegni

We consider the problem of communication efficient secure distributed matrix multiplication. The previous literature has focused on reducing the number of servers as a proxy for minimizing communication costs. The intuition being, that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Roberto Assis Machado , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

The Gram matrix of a matrix $A$ is defined as $AA^T$ (or $A^T\!A$). Computing the Gram matrix is an important operation in many applications, such as linear regression with the least squares method, where the explicit solution formula…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti

Privacy-preserving machine learning is learning from sensitive datasets that are typically distributed across multiple data owners. Private machine learning is a remarkable challenge in a large number of realistic scenarios where no trusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Mohamed Nassar

We consider the problem of designing a coding scheme that allows both sparsity and privacy for distributed matrix-vector multiplication. Perfect information-theoretic privacy requires encoding the input sparse matrices into matrices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Marvin Xhemrishi , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Encrypted control systems allow to evaluate feedback laws on external servers without revealing private information about state and input data, the control law, or the plant. While there are a number of encrypted control schemes available…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Sebastian Schlor , Michael Hertneck , Stefan Wildhagen , Frank Allgöwer

An efficient paradigm for multi-party computation (MPC) are protocols structured around access to shared pre-processed computational resources. In this model, certain forms of correlated randomness are distributed to the participants prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Maxwell Gold , Eric Chitambar