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Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Devansh Jain , Lakshmi Prasad Natarajan

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mahdi Soleymani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

Private information retrieval has been reformulated in an information-theoretic perspective in recent years. The two most important parameters considered for a PIR scheme in a distributed storage system are the storage overhead and PIR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Yiwei Zhang , Eitan Yaakobi , Tuvi Etzion , Moshe Schwartz

We consider the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) with user-side common randomness. In SPIR, a user retrieves a message out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases in such a way that no single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases, when the user is equipped with a cache that holds an uncoded fraction $r$ of the symbols from each of the $K$ stored messages in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

The problem of private information retrieval (PIR) is to retrieve one message out of $K$ messages replicated at $N$ databases, without revealing the identity of the desired message to the databases. We consider the problem of PIR with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Qiwen Wang , Mikael Skoglund

We consider the fundamental tradeoff between the storage cost and the download cost in private information retrieval systems, without any explicit structural restrictions on the storage codes, such as maximum distance separable codes or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chao Tian

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows a client to retrieve an entry $\text{DB}[i]$ from a public database $\text{DB}$ held by one or more servers, without revealing the queried index $i$. Traditional PIR schemes achieve sublinear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Elian Morel

In recent years, the Multi-message Private Information Retrieval (MPIR) problem has received significant attention from the research community. In this problem, a user wants to privately retrieve $D$ messages out of $K$ messages whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

This paper revisits the problems of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) and Symmetric PIR (SPIR). In PIR, a user retrieves a desired message from $N$ replicated, non-communicating databases, each storing the same $M$ messages, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Or Elimelech , Asaf Cohen

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases when the user is equipped with a cache that holds an uncoded fraction $r$ from each of the $K$ stored messages in the databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

This paper investigates reducing sub-packetization of capacity-achieving schemes for uncoded Storage Constrained Private Information Retrieval (SC-PIR) systems. In the SC-PIR system, a user aims to retrieve one out of $K$ files from $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jinbao Zhu , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Ying Miao

The two-terminal key agreement problem with biometric or physical identifiers is considered. Two linear code constructions based on Wyner-Ziv coding are developed. The first construction uses random linear codes and achieves all points of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Onur Günlü , Onurcan İşcan , Vladimir Sidorenko , Gerhard Kramer

This paper is concerned with parameter identification problem for finite impulse response (FIR) systems with binary-valued observations under low computational complexity. Most of the existing algorithms under binary-valued observations…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Tianning Han , Ying Wang , Yanlong Zhao

We consider the problem of cache-aided multi-user private information retrieval (MuPIR). In this problem, $N$ independent files are replicated across $S \geq 2$ non-colluding servers. There are $K$ users, each equipped with cache memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

In this paper, we study the problem of constructing projective systematic authentication schemes based on binary linear codes. In systematic authentication, a tag for authentication is generated and then appended to the information, also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hsuan-Po Liu , Hessam Mahdavifar

In quantum private information retrieval (QPIR), a user retrieves a classical file from multiple servers by downloading quantum systems without revealing the identity of the file. The QPIR capacity is the maximal achievable ratio of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Matteo Allaix , Seunghoan Song , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Masahito Hayashi , Camilla Hollanti

We study a class of private information retrieval (PIR) methods that we call one-shot schemes. The intuition behind one-shot schemes is the following. The user's query is regarded as a dot product of a query vector and the message vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb

We introduce the problem of private computation, comprised of $N$ distributed and non-colluding servers, $K$ independent datasets, and a user who wants to compute a function of the datasets privately, i.e., without revealing which function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

In information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR), a client wants to retrieve one desired file out of $M$ files, stored across $N$ servers, while keeping the index of the desired file private from each $T$-sized subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chandan Anand , Jayesh Seshadri , Prasad Krishnan , Gowtham R. Kurri