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In this work, we consider the multi-access combinatorial topology with $C$ caches where each user accesses a unique set of $r$ caches. For this setup, we consider secrecy, where each user should not know anything about the files it did not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mallikharjuna Chinnapadamala , B. Sundar Rajan

We consider the problem of maintaining sparsity in private distributed storage of confidential machine learning data. In many applications, e.g., face recognition, the data used in machine learning algorithms is represented by sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Marvin Xhemrishi , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

While large code language models have made significant strides in AI-assisted coding tasks, there are growing concerns about privacy challenges. The user code is transparent to the cloud LLM service provider, inducing risks of unauthorized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yalan Lin , Chengcheng Wan , Yixiong Fang , Xiaodong Gu

This work investigates the design of sparse secret sharing schemes that encode a sparse private matrix into sparse shares. This investigation is motivated by distributed computing, where the multiplication of sparse and private matrices is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Rawad Bitar , Maximilian Egger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Marvin Xhemrishi

This paper proposes a novel achievable scheme for the index problem and applies it to the caching problem. Index coding and caching are noiseless broadcast channel problems where receivers have message side information.In the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

A private machine learning algorithm hides as much as possible about its training data while still preserving accuracy. In this work, we study whether a non-private learning algorithm can be made private by relying on an instance-encoding…

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

This work investigates the problem of demand privacy against colluding users for shared-link coded caching systems, where no subset of users can learn any information about the demands of the remaining users. The notion of privacy used here…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Qifa Yan , Daniela Tuninetti

We study the privatization of distributed learning and optimization strategies. We focus on differential privacy schemes and study their effect on performance. We show that the popular additive random perturbation scheme degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

As one of the most important basic operations, matrix multiplication computation (MMC) has varieties of applications in the scientific and engineering community such as linear regression, k-nearest neighbor classification and biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chun Liu , Xuexian Hu , Xiaofeng Chen , Jianghong Wei , Wenfen Liu

We study the trade-off between communication rate and privacy for distributed batch matrix multiplication of two independent sequences of matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ with uniformly distributed entries. In our setting,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amirhosein Morteza , Remi A. Chou

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

The $k$-center problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem which asks to find $k$ centers such that the maximum distance of any input point in a set $P$ to its assigned center is minimized. The problem allows for elegant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Clemens Rösner , Melanie Schmidt

We consider the setting of a master server who possesses confidential data (genomic, medical data, etc.) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The master wants to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

This paper considers a multi-message secure aggregation with privacy problem, in which a server aims to compute $\sf K_c\geq 1$ linear combinations of local inputs from $\sf K$ distributed users. The problem addresses two tasks: (1)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chenyi Sun , Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

The index coding problem is studied from an interference alignment perspective, providing new results as well as new insights into, and generalizations of, previously known results. An equivalence is established between multiple unicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hamed Maleki , Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar

Sensitive applications running on the cloud often require data to be stored in an encrypted domain. To run data mining algorithms on such data, partially homomorphic encryption schemes (allowing certain operations in the ciphertext domain)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tikaram Sanyashi , Bernard Menezes

We consider the problem of designing a coding scheme that allows both sparsity and privacy for distributed matrix-vector multiplication. Perfect information-theoretic privacy requires encoding the input sparse matrices into matrices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Marvin Xhemrishi , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We consider the problem of revealing/sharing data in an efficient and secure way via a compact representation. The representation should ensure reliable reconstruction of the desired features/attributes while still preserve privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Giuseppe Caire

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem with individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ independent linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Nahid Esmati , Alex Sprintson