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We study the multi-party randomized communication complexity of computing a fair allocation of $m$ indivisible goods to $n < m$ equally entitled agents. We first consider MMS allocations, allocations that give every agent at least her…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Uriel Feige

We show how to compress communication in selection protocols, where the goal is to agree on a sequence of random bits using only a broadcast channel. More specifically, we present a generic method for converting any selection protocol, into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yael Tauman Kalai , Ilan Komargodski

Auditing algorithms' privacy typically involves simulating a game-based protocol that guesses which of two adjacent datasets was the original input. Traditional approaches require thousands of such simulations, leading to significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Di Wang

Federated machine learning leverages edge computing to develop models from network user data, but privacy in federated learning remains a major challenge. Techniques using differential privacy have been proposed to address this, but bring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timothy Stevens , Christian Skalka , Christelle Vincent , John Ring , Samuel Clark , Joseph Near

We study efficient differentially private algorithms for estimating monotone statistics, i.e., statistics that are monotone under the addition of new observations. The starting point for our investigation is subsample-and-aggregate: a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gavin Brown , Ephraim Linder , Mahbod Majid , Vikrant Singhal

Privacy and communication constraints are two major bottlenecks in federated learning (FL) and analytics (FA). We study the optimal accuracy of mean and frequency estimation (canonical models for FL and FA respectively) under joint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-05 Wei-Ning Chen , Dan Song , Ayfer Ozgur , Peter Kairouz

We consider the standard population protocol model, where (a priori) indistinguishable and anonymous agents interact in pairs according to uniformly random scheduling. The self-stabilizing leader election problem requires the protocol to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Janna Burman , Ho-Lin Chen , Hsueh-Ping Chen , David Doty , Thomas Nowak , Eric Severson , Chuan Xu

Secure messaging applications often offer privacy to users by protecting their messages from would be observers through end-to-end encryption techniques. However, the metadata of who communicates with whom cannot be concealed by encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Eric Brigham , Nicholas Hopper

Aggregation of message authentication codes (MACs) is a proven and efficient method to preserve valuable bandwidth in resource-constrained environments: Instead of appending a long authentication tag to each message, the integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Eric Wagner , Martin Serror , Klaus Wehrle , Martin Henze

Elaborate protocols in Secure Multi-party Computation enable several participants to compute a public function of their own private inputs while ensuring that no undesired information leaks about the private inputs, and without resorting to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Patrick Ah-Fat , Michael Huth

Quantum protocols for secret sharing usually rely on multi-party entanglement which with present technology is very difficult to achieve. Recently it has been shown that sequential manipulation and communication of a single $d-$ level state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Vahid Karimipour , Marzieh Asoudeh

We address the polling problem in social networks where individuals collaborate to choose the most favorite choice amongst some options, without divulging their vote and publicly exposing their potentially malicious actions. Given this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Bao-Thien Hoang , Abdessamad Imine

Information-theoretic topological secure aggregation (TSA)\cite{zhang2026information_regular} enables distributed users to compute neighborhood sums over arbitrary networks without revealing individual inputs, while remaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Xiang Zhang , Han Yu , Zhou Li , Yizhou Zhao , Giuseppe Caire

We study the self-stabilizing leader election problem in anonymous $n$-nodes networks. Achieving self-stabilization with low space memory complexity is particularly challenging, and designing space-optimal leader election algorithms remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lelia Blin , Sylvain Gay , Isabella Ziccardi

Based on the two-step protocol [Phys. Rev. A68(03)042317], we propose a $(n,n)$-threshold multiparty quantum secret sharing protocol of secure direct communication. In our protocol only all the sharers collaborate can the sender's secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. J. Zhang

Secure communication is one of the key applications of quantum networks. In recent years, following the demands for identity protection in classical communication protocols, the need for anonymity has also emerged for quantum networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Christopher Thalacker , Frederik Hahn , Jarn de Jong , Anna Pappa , Stefanie Barz

Encrypted control systems allow to evaluate feedback laws on external servers without revealing private information about state and input data, the control law, or the plant. While there are a number of encrypted control schemes available…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Sebastian Schlor , Michael Hertneck , Stefan Wildhagen , Frank Allgöwer

Secure model aggregation across many users is a key component of federated learning systems. The state-of-the-art protocols for secure model aggregation, which are based on additive masking, require all users to quantize their model updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , A. Salman Avestimehr

We present three voting protocols with unconditional privacy and information-theoretic correctness, without assuming any bound on the number of corrupt voters or voting authorities. All protocols have polynomial complexity and require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

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