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In this paper, we study the problem of secure and private distributed matrix multiplication. Specifically, we focus on a scenario where a user wants to compute the product of a confidential matrix $A$, with a matrix $B_\theta$, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

Large matrix multiplications are central to large-scale machine learning applications. These operations are often carried out on a distributed computing platform with a master server and multiple workers in the cloud operating in parallel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Malihe Aliasgari , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer

Matrix-parametrized models, including multiclass logistic regression and sparse coding, are used in machine learning (ML) applications ranging from computer vision to computational biology. When these models are applied to large-scale ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Pengtao Xie , Jin Kyu Kim , Yi Zhou , Qirong Ho , Abhimanu Kumar , Yaoliang Yu , Eric Xing

Matrix-parametrized models, including multiclass logistic regression and sparse coding, are used in machine learning (ML) applications ranging from computer vision to computational biology. When these models are applied to large-scale ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Pengtao Xie , Jin Kyu Kim , Yi Zhou , Qirong Ho , Abhimanu Kumar , Yaoliang Yu , Eric Xing

This work introduces the \emph{Secure and Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (SPSSR)} problem. In SPSSR, a user wishes to retrieve one subset from an arbitrary family of size-$D$ subsets from $K$ messages replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

We consider the problems of Private and Secure Matrix Multiplication (PSMM) and Fully Private Matrix Multiplication (FPMM), for which matrices privately selected by a master node are multiplied at distributed worker nodes without revealing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jinbao Zhu , Songze Li

The distributed matrix multiplication problem with an unknown number of stragglers is considered, where the goal is to efficiently and flexibly obtain the product of two massive matrices by distributing the computation across N servers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Weiqi Li , Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed A. Jafar , Hamid Jafarkhani

This work considers the problem of privately outsourcing the computation of a matrix product over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ to $N$ helper servers. These servers are considered to be honest but curious, i.e., they behave according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jie Li , Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti , Oliver Gnilke

A secure multi-party batch matrix multiplication problem (SMBMM) is considered, where the goal is to allow a master to efficiently compute the pairwise products of two batches of massive matrices, by distributing the computation across S…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zhen Chen , Zhuqing Jia , Zhiying Wang , Syed A. Jafar

In this paper, we explore how quantum resources can be used to increase the rate of private distributed matrix multiplication (PDMM). In PDMM, a user who has two high-dimensional matrices, $A$ and $B$, and lacks the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mohamed Nomeir , Alptug Aytekin , Lei Hu , Sennur Ulukus

This paper presents a perfectly secure matrix multiplication (PSMM) protocol for multiparty computation (MPC) of $\mathrm{A}^{\top}\mathrm{B}$ over finite fields. The proposed scheme guarantees correctness and information-theoretic privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zixuan He , Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Derya Malak , Photios A. Stavrou

We consider the problem of designing secure and private codes for distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices and hires worker nodes to help compute their product. The matrices should remain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Christoph Hofmeister , Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We present the Distributed High-Dimensional Matrix Mechanism (Distributed HDMM), a protocol for answering workloads of linear queries on distributed data that provides the accuracy of central-model HDMM without a trusted curator.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ratang Sedimo , Ivoline C. Ngong , Jami Lashua , Joseph P. Near

The sparse matrix-vector (SpMV) multiplication is an important computational kernel, but it is notoriously difficult to execute efficiently. This paper investigates algorithm performance for unstructured sparse matrices, which are more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Kobe Bergmans , Karl Meerbergen , Raf Vandebril

Coded Distributed Matrix Multiplication (CDMM) is a distributed matrix multiplication (DMM) for large-scale matrices through a coding scheme such that any $R$ worker node among all $N$ worker nodes can recover the final product, where $N$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yi Kuang , Jiang Li , Songsong Li , Chaoping Xing

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental building block for large scale computations arising in various applications, including machine learning. There has been significant recent interest in using coding to speed up distributed matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

We investigate the service-rate region (SRR) of distributed storage systems that employ linear codes. We focus on systems where each server stores one code symbol, and a user recovers a data symbol by accessing any of its recovery groups,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

We consider the problem of communication efficient secure distributed matrix multiplication. The previous literature has focused on reducing the number of servers as a proxy for minimizing communication costs. The intuition being, that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Roberto Assis Machado , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein

A variety of large-scale machine learning problems can be cast as instances of constrained submodular maximization. Existing approaches for distributed submodular maximization have a critical drawback: The capacity - number of instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-01 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Andreas Krause

A passive adversary can eavesdrop stored content or downloaded content of some storage nodes, in order to learn illegally about the file stored across a distributed storage system (DSS). Previous work in the literature focuses on code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Son Hoang Dau , Wentu Song , Chau Yuen