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We consider the problem of universally communicating over an unknown and arbitrarily varying channel, using feedback. The focus of this paper is on determining the input behavior, and specifically, a prior distribution which is used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Yuval Lomnitz , Meir Feder

The task of manipulating correlated random variables in a distributed setting has received attention in the fields of both Information Theory and Computer Science. Often shared correlations can be converted, using a little amount of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Madhu Sudan , Himanshu Tyagi , Shun Watanabe

We investigate the problem of secure source coding with a two-sided helper in a game-theoretic framework. Alice (A) and Helen (H) view iid correlated information sequences $X^n$ and $Y^n$ respectively. Alice communicates to Bob (B) at rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Sanket Satpathy , Paul Cuff

We consider the task of compression of information when the source of the information and the destination do not agree on the prior, i.e., the distribution from which the information is being generated. This setting was considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Elad Haramaty , Madhu Sudan

Quantum correlations provide dramatic advantage over the corresponding classical resources in several communication tasks. However a broad class of probabilistic theories exists that attributes greater success than quantum theory in many of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Sutapa Saha , Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Tamal Guha , Saronath Halder , Manik Banik

In this paper we consider the problem of generating arbitrary three-party correlations from a combination of public and secret correlations. Two parties -- called Alice and Bob -- share perfectly correlated bits that are secret from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Eric Chitambar , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Andreas Winter

AI agents are increasingly deployed to interact with other agents on behalf of users and organizations. We ask whether two such agents, operated by different entities, can carry out a parallel secret conversation while still producing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Or Zamir

Identifying the physical grounds distinguishing quantum theory from broader probabilistic frameworks remains an open challenge. Communication-based proposals -- most notably the principles of impossibility of superluminal signaling and…

We show a near optimal direct-sum theorem for the two-party randomized communication complexity. Let $f\subseteq X \times Y\times Z$ be a relation, $\varepsilon> 0$ and $k$ be an integer. We show,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Rahul Jain

One-sided output secure function evaluation is a cryptographic primitive where the two mutually distrustful players, Alice and Bob, both have a private input to a bivariate function. Bob obtains the value of the function for the given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Esther Hänggi , Severin Winkler

We study achievable rates of reliable communication in a power-constrained two-way additive interference channel over the real alphabet where communication is disrupted by a power-constrained jammer. This models the wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yihan Zhang , Shashank Vatedka , Sidharth Jaggi

We investigate the secret key agreement from correlated Gaussian sources in which the legitimate parties can use the public communication with limited rate. For the class of protocols with the one-way public communication, we show a closed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Shun Watanabe , Yasutada Oohama

We define a variation on the well-known problem of private message transmission. This new problem called private randomness agreement (PRA) gives two participants access to a public, authenticated channel alongside the main channels, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 René Bødker Christensen , Petar Popovski

The study of connectivity and coordination has drawn increasing attention in recent decades due to their central role in driving markets, shaping societal dynamics, and influencing biological systems. Traditionally, observable connections,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shahar Somin , Tom Cohen , Jeremy Kepner , Alex Pentland

If a sender and a receiver lack precise knowledge about the communication line that connects them, designing a scheme to reliably transmit information becomes more challenging. This has been studied in classical and quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Paula Belzig

We establish novel connections between magic in quantum circuits and communication complexity. In particular, we show that functions computable with low magic have low communication cost. Our first result shows that the $\mathsf{D}\|$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Uma Girish , Alex May , Natalie Parham , Henry Yuen

Effective interlocutors account for the uncertain goals, beliefs, and emotions of others. But even the best human conversationalist cannot perfectly anticipate the trajectory of a dialogue. How well can language models represent inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Anthony Sicilia , Hyunwoo Kim , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Malihe Alikhani , Jack Hessel

How should social scientists understand and communicate the uncertainty of statistically estimated causal effects? I propose we utilize the posterior distribution of a causal effect and present the probability of the effect being greater…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-15 Akisato Suzuki

Most popular blockchain solutions, like Bitcoin, rely on proof-of-work, guaranteeing that the output of the consensus is agreed upon with high probability. However, this probability depends on the delivery of messages and that the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Christopher Natoli , Vincent Gramoli

This paper establishes the fundamental limits of a multi-access system where multiple users communicate to a legitimate receiver in presence of an external warden. Only a specific subset of the users, called covert users, needs their…

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