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We study a collaborative revenue management problem where multiple decentralized parties agree to share some of their capacities. This collaboration is performed by constructing a large mathematical programming model available to all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Utku Karaca , S. Ilker Birbil , Nursen Aydin , Gizem Mullaoglu

We consider differentially private counting when each data point consists of $d$ bits satisfying a partial order. Our main technical contribution is a problem-specific $K$-norm mechanism that runs in time $O(d^2)$. Experiments show that,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Matthew Joseph , Mónica Ribero , Alexander Yu

We study the query complexity of a learner-private sequential learning problem, motivated by the privacy and security concerns due to eavesdropping that arise in practical applications such as pricing and Federated Learning. A learner tries…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Jiaming Xu , Kuang Xu , Dana Yang

In this paper, we consider a secure multi-party computation problem (MPC), where the goal is to offload the computation of an arbitrary polynomial function of some massive private matrices (inputs) to a cluster of workers. The workers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

In a typical formulation of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a single user wishes to retrieve one out of $ K$ files from $N$ servers without revealing the demanded file index to any server. This paper formulates an extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

In private information delivery (PID) problem, there are $K$ messages stored across $N$ servers, each capable of storing $M$ messages and a user. Servers want to convey one of the $K$ messages to the user without revealing the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

We consider the problems of secret sharing and multiparty computation, assuming that agents prefer to get the secret (resp., function value) to not getting it, and secondarily, prefer that as few as possible of the other agents get it. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph Y. Halpern , Vanessa Teague

We consider a distributed function computation problem in which parties observing noisy versions of a remote source facilitate the computation of a function of their observations at a fusion center through public communication. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Onur Günlü , Matthieu Bloch , Rafael F. Schaefer

We propose a model for deterministic distributed function computation by a network of identical and anonymous nodes. In this model, each node has bounded computation and storage capabilities that do not grow with the network size.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Julien M. Hendrickx , Alex Olshevsky , John N. Tsitsiklis

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

Differential privacy is a de facto standard for statistical computations over databases that contain private data. The strength of differential privacy lies in a rigorous mathematical definition that guarantees individual privacy and yet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Vishal Jagannath , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

Secure network function computation is a critical research direction in network coding, which aims to ensure that the target function is correctly computed at the sink node while preventing the wiretapper from obtaining any information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qin Zhou , Fang-Wei Fu

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

In this paper, we investigate function computation problems under different secure conditions over a network with multiple source nodes and a single sink node which desires a function of all source messages without error. A wiretapper has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Min Xu , Gennian Ge , Minqian Liu

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) allows parties to know the result of cooperative computation while preserving privacy of individual data. Secure sum computation is an important application of SMC. In our proposed protocols parties are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

The concept of decomposition in computer science and engineering is considered a fundamental component of computational thinking and is prevalent in design of algorithms, software construction, hardware design, and more. We propose a simple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dror Fried , Axel Legay , Joël Ouaknine , Moshe Y. Vardi

We study the fundamental problem of index coding under an additional privacy constraint that requires each receiver to learn nothing more about the collection of messages beyond its demanded messages from the server and what is available to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Varun Narayanan , Jithin Ravi , Vivek K. Mishra , Bikash Kumar Dey , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Matthew Joseph , Jieming Mao , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth

We study the capacity of quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) with multiple servers. In the QPIR problem with multiple servers, a user retrieves a classical file by downloading quantum systems from multiple servers each of which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi

Consider $L$ users, who each hold private data, and one fusion center who must compute a function of the private data of the $L$ users. To accomplish this task, each user may utilize a public and noiseless broadcast channel in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Remi A. Chou , Joerg Kliewer