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In this work, we explore the problem of multi-user linearly-separable distributed computation, where $N$ servers help compute the desired functions (jobs) of $K$ users, and where each desired function can be written as a linear combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

In this paper, we present a new perspective of single server private information retrieval (PIR) schemes by using the notion of linear error-correcting codes. Many of the known single server schemes are based on taking linear combinations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Gianira N. Alfarano , Karan Khathuria , Violetta Weger

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

We consider private information retrieval (PIR) for distributed storage systems (DSSs) with noncolluding nodes where data is stored using a non maximum distance separable (MDS) linear code. It was recently shown that if data is stored using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We consider the problem of weakly-private information retrieval (WPIR) when data is encoded by a maximum distance separable code and stored across multiple servers. In WPIR, a user wishes to retrieve a piece of data from a set of servers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Asbjørn O. Orvedal , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes

The $K$ User Linear Computation Broadcast (LCBC) problem is comprised of $d$ dimensional data (from $\mathbb{F}_q$), that is fully available to a central server, and $K$ users, who require various linear computations of the data, and have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

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

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 2018-02-07 Simon Blackburn , Tuvi Etzion

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 consider a coded caching problem with multiple demands under a privacy constraint. In this problem, a server with access to \(N\) files serves \(K\) users over a shared link, and each user requests \(L\) distinct files. The privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qinyi Lu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Private Information Retrieval (PIR), despite being well studied, is computationally costly and arduous to scale. We explore lower-cost relaxations of information-theoretic PIR, based on dummy queries, sparse vectors, and compositions with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Raphael R. Toledo , George Danezis , Ian Goldberg

This paper presents private information retrieval (PIR) schemes for coded storage with colluding servers, which are not restricted to maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. PIR schemes for general linear codes are constructed and the…

The problem of private information retrieval with graph-based replicated storage was recently introduced by Raviv, Tamo and Yaakobi. Its capacity remains open in almost all cases. In this work the asymptotic (large number of messages)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Zhuqing Jia , Syed A. Jafar

In many applications, content accessed by users (movies, videos, news articles, etc.) can leak sensitive latent attributes, such as religious and political views, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, and others. To prevent such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Islam Samy , Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon , Loukas Lazos

Distributed linearly separable computation is a fundamental problem in large-scale distributed systems, requiring the computation of linearly separable functions over different datasets across distributed workers. This paper studies a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Shuo Shao , Giuseppe Caire

Most of our lives are conducted in the cyberspace. The human notion of privacy translates into a cyber notion of privacy on many functions that take place in the cyberspace. This article focuses on three such functions: how to privately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Sennur Ulukus , Salman Avestimehr , Michael Gastpar , Syed Jafar , Ravi Tandon , Chao Tian

A centralized coded caching system, consisting of a server delivering N popular files, each of size F bits, to K users through an error-free shared link, is considered. It is assumed that each user is equipped with a local cache memory with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

This paper studies the distributed linearly separable computation problem, which is a generalization of many existing distributed computing problems such as distributed gradient descent and distributed linear transform. In this problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

The problem of reliable function computation is extended by imposing privacy, secrecy, and storage constraints on a remote source whose noisy measurements are observed by multiple parties. The main additions to the classic function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Onur Günlü

Quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) for quantum messages is the protocol in which a user retrieves one of the multiple quantum states from one or multiple servers without revealing which state is retrieved. We consider QPIR in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi
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