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Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that enables users to retrieve data from a database without revealing which item is being accessed, thereby preserving query privacy. However, PIR protocols also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lin Zhu , Lingwei Kong , Xin Ning , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang

We introduce the \emph{Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (PSSR)} problem, where a user retrieves $D$ messages from a database of $K$ messages replicated across $N$ non-colluding servers, and the demand is restricted to a known structured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

We consider the problem of designing a Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme on $m$ files replicated on $k$ servers that can collude or, even worse, can return incorrect answers. Our goal is to correctly retrieve a specific message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Stanislav Kruglik , Son Hoang Dau , Han Mao Kiah , Huaxiong Wang

Recently it was shown that the seminal Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) coded caching scheme leaks the demand information of each user to the others. Many works have considered coded caching with demand privacy, while each non-trivial existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from MDS coded databases with colluding servers, i.e., MDS-TPIR. In the MDS-TPIR setting, $M$ files are stored across $N$ servers, where each file is stored independently using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Rui Sun , Ran Tao , Jingke Xu , Yiwei Zhang

We introduce the problem of \emph{timely} private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated servers. In this problem, a user desires to retrieve a message out of $M$ messages from the servers, whose contents are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Karim Banawan , Ahmed Arafa , Sennur Ulukus

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multi-unit network systems. Though being defined exclusively for random variables, PID is ubiquitously applied to…

A private information retrieval scheme is a mechanism that allows a user to retrieve any one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases, each of which stores all $K$ messages, without revealing anything about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Consider Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a client wants to retrieve one file out of $K$ files that are replicated in $N$ different servers and the client selection must remain private when up to $T$ servers may collude.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Hassan ZivariFard , Remi A. Chou

The capacity of private information retrieval (PIR) from databases coded using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes has been previously characterized by Banawan and Ulukus, where it was assumed that the messages are encoded and stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Hua Sun , Chao Tian

In Pliable Private Information Retrieval (PPIR) with a single server, messages are partitioned into $\Gamma$ non-overlapping classes. The user wants to retrieve a message from its desired class without revealing the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Megha Rayer , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

In this work private information retrieval (PIR) codes are studied. In a $k$-PIR code, $s$ information bits are encoded in such a way that every information bit has $k$ mutually disjoint recovery sets. The main problem under this paradigm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sascha Kurz , Eitan Yaakobi

We introduce a neighborhood-based data access model for distributed coded storage allocation. Storage nodes are connected in a generic network and data is accessed locally: a user accesses a randomly chosen storage node, which subsequently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Dusan Jakovetic , Aleksandar Minja , Dragana Bajovic , Dejan Vukobratovic

Protocols satisfying Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enable parties to collect aggregate information about a population while protecting each user's privacy, without relying on a trusted third party. LDP protocols (such as Google's RAPPOR)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Tianhao Wang , Jeremiah Blocki , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

In private information delivery (PID) problem, there are $K$ messages stored across $N$ servers, each capable of storing $M$ messages and a user. Servers want to convey one of the $K$ messages to the user without revealing the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

Linear programming is a fundamental tool in a wide range of decision systems. However, without privacy protections, sharing the solution to a linear program may reveal information about the underlying data used to formulate it, which may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Alexander Benvenuti , Brendan Bialy , Miriam Dennis , Matthew Hale

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a protocol that guarantees the privacy of a user who is in communication with databases. The user wants to download one of the messages stored in the databases while hiding the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jun-Woo Tak , Sang-Hyo Kim , Yongjune Kim , Jong-Seon No

This work introduces the \emph{Secure and Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (SPSSR)} problem. In SPSSR, a user wishes to retrieve one subset from an arbitrary family of size-$D$ subsets from $K$ messages replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

In the problem of cache-aided multiuser private information retrieval (MuPIR), a set of $K_{\rm u}$ cache-equipped users wish to privately download a set of messages from $N$ distributed databases each holding a library of $K$ messages. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Private information retrieval systems (PIRs) allow a user to extract an item from a database that is replicated over k>=1 servers, while satisfying various privacy constraints. We exhibit quantum k-server symmetrically-private information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Iordanis Kerenidis , Ronald de Wolf