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Provable lower bounds are presented for the information rate I(X; X+S+N) where X is the symbol drawn from a fixed, finite-size alphabet, S a discrete-valued random variable (RV) and N a Gaussian RV. The information rate I(X; X+S+N) serves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Seongwook Jeong , Jaekyun Moon

We study the problem of data disclosure with privacy guarantees, wherein the utility of the disclosed data is ensured via a \emph{hard distortion} constraint. Unlike average distortion, hard distortion provides a deterministic guarantee of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jiachun Liao , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar , Flavio P. Calmon

The Information Bottleneck (IB) is a method of lossy compression of relevant information. Its rate-distortion (RD) curve describes the fundamental tradeoff between input compression and the preservation of relevant information embedded in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shlomi Agmon

A broadcast channel (BC) where the decoders cooperate via a one-sided link is considered. One common and two private messages are transmitted and the private message to the cooperative user should be kept secret from the cooperation-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Ziv Goldfeld , Gerhard Kramer , Haim H. Permuter , Paul Cuff

We consider the problem of identification and authentication based on secret key generation from some user-generated source data (e.g., a biometric source). The goal is to reliably identify users pre-enrolled in a database as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study a stochastic disclosure control problem using information-theoretic methods. The useful data to be disclosed depend on private data that should be protected. Thus, we design a privacy mechanism to produce new data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The problem of how to properly quantify redundant information is an open question that has been the subject of much recent research. Redundant information refers to information about a target variable S that is common to two or more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Robin A. A. Ince

This paper provides a unified approach to characterize the set of all feasible signals subject to privacy constraints. The Blackwell frontier of feasible signals can be decomposed into minimum informative signals achieving the Blackwell…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-27 Zhang Xu , Wei Zhao

Uniform interpolation property (UIP) is a strengthening of Craig interpolation property. It can be understood as the definability of propositional quantifiers. This paper develops the sequent calculi provided in Murai and Sano (2020),…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Youan Su

Maximal $\alpha$-leakage is a tunable measure of information leakage based on the accuracy of guessing an arbitrary function of private data based on public data. The parameter $\alpha$ determines the loss function used to measure the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut , Flavio P. Calmon

The partial information decomposition (PID) framework is concerned with decomposing the information that a set of (two or more) random variables (the sources) has about another variable (the target) into three types of information: unique,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 André F. C. Gomes , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Information and uncertainty are closely related and extensively studied concepts in a number of scientific disciplines such as communication theory, probability theory, and statistics. Increasing the information arguably reduces the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Jiahua Chen

It is known that the maximum classical mutual information that can be achieved between measurements on a pair of quantum systems can drastically underestimate the quantum mutual information between those systems. In this article, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-08 Frédéric Dupuis , Jan Florjanczyk , Patrick Hayden , Debbie Leung

We examine the relationship between privacy metrics that utilize information density to measure information leakage between a private and a disclosed random variable. Firstly, we prove that bounding the information density from above or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Parastoo Sadeghi , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

We consider a revenue optimizing seller selling a single item to a buyer, on whose private value the seller has a noisy signal. We show that, when the signal is kept private, arbitrarily more revenue could potentially be extracted than if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Hu Fu , Chris Liaw , Pinyan Lu , Zhihao Gavin Tang

We introduce a privacy measure called statistic maximal leakage that quantifies how much a privacy mechanism leaks about a specific secret, relative to the adversary's prior information about that secret. Statistic maximal leakage is an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shuaiqi Wang , Zinan Lin , Giulia Fanti

Open information extraction (IE) is the task of extracting open-domain assertions from natural language sentences. A key step in open IE is confidence modeling, ranking the extractions based on their estimated quality to adjust precision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhengbao Jiang , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

The Stratonovich's value of information (VoI) is quantity that measure how much inferential gain is obtained from a perturbed sample under information leakage constraint. In this paper, we introduce a generalized VoI for a general loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Akira Kamatsuka , Takahiro Yoshida , Toshiyasu Matsushima

The security of quantum key distribution protocols is guaranteed by the laws of quantum mechanics. However, a precise analysis of the security properties requires tools from both classical cryptography and information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Marco Tomamichel , Jesus Martinez-Mateo , Christoph Pacher , David Elkouss

In this paper, we consider the so-called uniquely decodable one-to-one code (UDOOC) that is formed by inserting a "comma" indicator, termed the unique word (UW), between consecutive one-to-one codewords for separation. Along this research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Chin-Fu Liu , Hsiao-feng Lu , Po-ning Chen