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We consider the problem of $T$-Private Information Retrieval with private side information (TPIR-PSI). In this problem, $N$ replicated databases store $K$ independent messages, and a user, equipped with a local cache that holds $M$ messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed Jafar

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (PIR) when there is heterogeneity in servers' trustworthiness under the maximal leakage (Max-L) metric and mutual information (MI) metric. A user wishes to retrieve a desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenyuan Zhao , Yu-Shin Huang , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a privacy setting that allows a user to download a required message from a set of messages stored in a system of databases without revealing the index of the required message to the databases. PIR was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sajani Vithana , Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

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

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol based on coding theory for a single server is proposed. It provides computational security against linear algebra attacks, addressing the main drawback of previous PIR proposals based on coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Şeyma Bodur , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Diego Ruano

This paper considers the problem of single-server Individually-Private Information Retrieval with side information (IPIR). In this problem, there is a remote server that stores a dataset of $K$ messages, and there is a user that initially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

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

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

Private information retrieval from a single server is considered, utilizing random linear codes. Presented is a modified version of the first code-based single-server computational PIR scheme proposed by Holzbaur, Hollanti, and Wachter-Zeh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Neehar Verma , Camilla Hollanti

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

The problem of Multi-user Blind $X$-secure $T$-colluding Symmetric Private Information Retrieval from Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) coded storage system with $B$ Byzantine and $U$ unresponsive servers (U-B-MDS-MB-XTSPIR) is studied in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jinbao Zhu , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang

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 consider the problem of designing PIR scheme on coded data when certain nodes are unresponsive. We provide the construction of $\nu$-robust PIR schemes that can tolerate up to $\nu$ unresponsive nodes. These schemes are adaptive and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Razane Tajeddine , Salim El Rouayheb

We consider the problem of designing private information retrieval (PIR) schemes on data of $m$ files replicated on $n$ servers that can possibly collude. We focus on devising robust PIR schemes that can tolerate stragglers, i.e., slow or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Rawad Bitar , Salim El Rouayheb

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

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

There has been much recent interest in Private information Retrieval (PIR) in models where a database is stored across several servers using coding techniques from distributed storage, rather than being simply replicated. In particular, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Simon R. Blackburn , Tuvi Etzion

We study Private Information Retrieval with Side Information (PIR-SI) in the single-server multi-message setting. In this setting, a user wants to download $D$ messages from a database of $K\geq D$ messages, stored on a single server,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Brenden Garcia , Swanand Kadhe , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

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

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