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Recently differential privacy has been used for a number of streaming, data structure, and dynamic graph problems as a means of hiding the internal randomness of the data structure, so that multiple possibly adaptive queries can be made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shiyuan Feng , Ying Feng , George Z. Li , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang

The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the case of a single server (e.g., a base station) and multiple users, each of which caches segments of files in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

We study an information-theoretic privacy mechanism design, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ and wants to reveal the information to a user. Since the useful data is correlated with the private data $X$, the agent uses a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Amirreza Zamani , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund

In this paper, we address the challenge of differential privacy in the context of graph cuts, specifically focusing on the multiway cut and the minimum $k$-cut. We introduce edge-differentially private algorithms that achieve nearly optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Rishi Chandra , Michael Dinitz , Chenglin Fan , Zongrui Zou

The proliferation of connected devices through Internet connectivity presents both opportunities for smart applications and risks to security and privacy. It is vital to proactively address these concerns to fully leverage the potential of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Nazatul H. Sultan , Shabnam Kasra-Kermanshahi , Yen Tran , Shangqi Lai , Vijay Varadharajan , Surya Nepal , Xun Yi

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental problem in the broader fields of security and privacy. In recent years, the problem has garnered significant attention from the research community, leading to achievability schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We formulate and study the problem of ON-OFF privacy. ON-OFF privacy algorithms enable a user to continuously switch his privacy between ON and OFF. An obvious example is the incognito mode in internet browsers. But beyond internet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Fangwei Ye , Carolina Naim , Salim El Rouayheb

Index coding, or broadcasting with side information, is a network coding problem of most fundamental importance. In this problem, given a directed graph, each vertex represents a user with a need of information, and the neighborhood of each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Abhishek Agarwal , Arya Mazumdar

Recent rapid development of sensor technology has allowed massive fine-grained time series (TS) data to be collected and set the foundation for the development of data-driven services and applications. During the process, data sharing is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Li Zhang , Jiahao Ding , Yifeng Gao , Jessica Lin

This paper considers the problem of outsourcing the multiplication of two private and sparse matrices to untrusted workers. Secret sharing schemes can be used to tolerate stragglers and guarantee information-theoretic privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Maximilian Egger , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

The problem we address is the following: how can a user employ a predictive model that is held by a third party, without compromising private information. For example, a hospital may wish to use a cloud service to predict the readmission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Pengtao Xie , Misha Bilenko , Tom Finley , Ran Gilad-Bachrach , Kristin Lauter , Michael Naehrig

A critically important component of most signal processing procedures is that of computing the distance between signals. In multi-party processing applications where these signals belong to different parties, this introduces privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj

Security aspects of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem are investigated. Building on the results of Bar-Yossef et al. (2006), the properties of linear coding schemes for the ICSI problem are further explored. The notion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-29 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

We study the information leakage to a guessing adversary in index coding with a general message distribution. Under both vanishing-error and zero-error decoding assumptions, we develop lower and upper bounds on the optimal leakage rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yucheng Liu , Lawrence Ong , Phee Lep Yeoh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Joerg Kliewer , Sarah Johnson

A variant of the index coding problem (ICP), the embedded index coding problem (EICP) was introduced in [A. Porter and M. Wootters, "Embedded index coding," ITW, Sweden, 2019] which was motivated by its application in distributed computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Shanuja Sasi , Vaneet Aggarwal , B. Sundar Rajan

Linear programming is a fundamental tool in a wide range of decision systems. However, without privacy protections, sharing the solution to a linear program may reveal information about the underlying data used to formulate it, which may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Alexander Benvenuti , Brendan Bialy , Miriam Dennis , Matthew Hale

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Mahsa Taziki , Marc Tommasi

We consider an edge computing scenario where users want to perform a linear computation on local, private data and a network-wide, public matrix. Users offload computations to edge servers located at the edge of the network, but do not want…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Reent Schlegel , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

A lossy source coding problem is studied in which a source encoder communicates with two decoders, one with and one without correlated side information with an additional constraint on the privacy of the side information at the uninformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Ravi Tandon , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

In pliable index coding, we consider a server with $m$ messages and $n$ clients where each client has as side information a subset of the messages. We seek to minimize the number of broadcast transmissions, so that each client can recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Linqi Song , Christina Fragouli