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We present a new approach for computing compact sketches that can be used to approximate the inner product between pairs of high-dimensional vectors. Based on the Weighted MinHash algorithm, our approach admits strong accuracy guarantees…

Recent advancements in discrete image generation showed that scaling the VQ codebook size significantly improves reconstruction fidelity. However, training generative models with a large VQ codebook remains challenging, typically requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shufan Li , Jiuxiang Gu , Kangning Liu , Zhe Lin , Aditya Grover , Jason Kuen

We study the problem of reconstructing an image from information stored at contour locations. We show that high-quality reconstructions with high fidelity to the source image can be obtained from sparse input, e.g., comprising less than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tali Dekel , Chuang Gan , Dilip Krishnan , Ce Liu , William T. Freeman

Recently, a secrecy measure based on list-reconstruction has been proposed [2], in which a wiretapper is allowed to produce a list of $2^{mR_{L}}$ reconstruction sequences and the secrecy is measured by the minimum distortion over the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

We consider the problem of secure identification: user U proves to server S that he knows an agreed (possibly low-entropy) password w, while giving away as little information on w as possible, namely the adversary can exclude at most one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-05 Ivan Damgaard , Serge Fehr , Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner

The secrecy capacity of a network, for a given collection of permissible wiretap sets, is the maximum rate of communication such that observing links in any permissible wiretap set reveals no information about the message. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Cui , Tracey Ho , Joerg Kliewer

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

In secure summation, $K$ users, each holds an input, wish to compute the sum of the inputs at a server without revealing any information about {\em all the inputs} even if the server may collude with {\em an arbitrary subset of users}. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhou Li , Yizhou Zhao , Hua Sun

Applying encryption technology to image retrieval can ensure the security and privacy of personal images. The related researches in this field have focused on the organic combination of encryption algorithm and artificial feature…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Zhixun Lu , Qihua Feng , Peiya Li

An outstanding open question posed by Guha and Indyk in 2006 asks to characterize metric spaces in which distances can be estimated using efficient sketches. Specifically, we say that a sketching algorithm is efficient if it achieves…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Alexandr Andoni , Robert Krauthgamer , Ilya Razenshteyn

Most cryptosystems are defined over finite algebraic structures where arithmetic operations are performed modulo natural numbers. This applies to private key as well as to public key ciphers. No secure cryptosystems defined over the field…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Youssef Hassoun

Given a persistence diagram with $n$ points, we give an algorithm that produces a sequence of $n$ persistence diagrams converging in bottleneck distance to the input diagram, the $i$th of which has $i$ distinct (weighted) points and is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Donald R. Sheehy , Siddharth Sheth

We introduce Density sketches (DS): a succinct online summary of the data distribution. DS can accurately estimate point wise probability density. Interestingly, DS also provides a capability to sample unseen novel data from the underlying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Aditya Desai , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Linguistic steganography involves embedding secret messages within seemingly innocuous texts to enable covert communication. Provable security, which is a long-standing goal and key motivation, has been extended to language-model-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruiyi Yan , Yugo Murawaki

In this paper, we introduce a novel image encryption and decryption algorithm using hyperchaotic signals from the novel 3D hyperchaotic map, 2D memristor map, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and key sensitivity analysis to achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Bharath V Nair , Vismaya V S , Sishu Shankar Muni , Ali Durdu

This paper considers the problem of recovering an unknown sparse p\times p matrix X from an m\times m matrix Y=AXB^T, where A and B are known m \times p matrices with m << p. The main result shows that there exist constructions of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-27 Gautam Dasarathy , Parikshit Shah , Badri Narayan Bhaskar , Robert Nowak

In the compressive learning theory, instead of solving a statistical learning problem from the input data, a so-called sketch is computed from the data prior to learning. The sketch has to capture enough information to solve the problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-23 Michael P. Sheehan , Antoine Gonon , Mike E. Davies

Security questions are one of the mechanisms used to recover passwords. Strong answers to security questions (i.e. high entropy) are hard for attackers to guess or obtain using social engineering techniques (e.g. monitoring of social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Nicholas Micallef , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

A computationally secure noised based cipher system is proposed. The advantage of this cipher system is that it operates above noise level. Therefore computationally secure communication can be done when error correction code fails. Another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arindam Mitra

Compressive learning is an approach to efficient large scale learning based on sketching an entire dataset to a single mean embedding (the sketch), i.e. a vector of generalized moments. The learning task is then approximately solved as an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-11 Antoine Chatalic , Luigi Carratino , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco