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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

In federated submodel learning (FSL), a machine learning model is divided into multiple submodels based on different types of data used for training. Each user involved in the training process only downloads and updates the submodel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

In the classical private information retrieval (PIR) setup, a user wants to retrieve a file from a database or a distributed storage system (DSS) without revealing the file identity to the servers holding the data. In the quantum PIR (QPIR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Matteo Allaix , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Camilla Hollanti

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme is a protocol that allows a user to retrieve a file from a database without revealing the identity of the desired file to a curious database. Given a distributed data storage system, efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Camilla Hollanti , Neehar Verma

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows users to retrieve data from a database without disclosing to the server information about the identity of the data retrieved. A coded storage in a distributed storage system with colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Şeyma Bodur , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Diego Ruano

This work considers computationally efficient privacy-preserving data release. We study the task of analyzing a database containing sensitive information about individual participants. Given a set of statistical queries on the data, we want…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-07-14 Moritz Hardt , Guy N. Rothblum , Rocco A. Servedio

In this paper, we present a novel variation of the coded matrix multiplication problem which we refer to as fully private grouped matrix multiplication (FPGMM). In FPGMM, a master wants to compute a group of matrix products between two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Lev Tauz , Lara Dolecek

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

We consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval with Private Side Information (PIR-PSI), wherein a user wants to retrieve a file from replication based non-colluding databases by using the prior knowledge of a subset of the files…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Murali Krishnan K. H. , J. Harshan

We present a private information retrieval (PIR) scheme that allows a user to retrieve a single message from an arbitrary number of databases by colluding with other users while hiding the desired message index. This scheme is of particular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-29 William Barnhart , Zhi Tian

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) problem has recently attracted a significant interest in the information-theory community. In this problem, a user wants to privately download one or more messages belonging to a database with copies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Swanand Kadhe , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme on coded storage systems with colluding, byzantine, and non-responsive servers is presented. Furthermore, the scheme can also be used for symmetric PIR in the same setting. An explicit scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Razane Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , David Karpuk , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

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

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental problem in the broader fields of security and privacy. In recent years, the problem has garnered significant attention from the research community, leading to achievability schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We consider the problem of evaluating arbitrary multivariate polynomials over a massive dataset containing multiple inputs, on a distributed computing system with a master node and multiple worker nodes. Generalized Lagrange Coded Computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jinbao Zhu , Hengxuan Tang , Songze Li , Yijia Chang

We introduce the \emph{Private Contiguous-Block Retrieval (PCBR)} problem, where a user retrieves a block of $D$ messages with contiguous indices from $K$ replicated messages stored across $N$ non-colluding servers, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol based on coding theory for a single server is proposed. It provides computational security against linear algebra attacks, addressing the main drawback of previous PIR proposals based on coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Şeyma Bodur , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Diego Ruano

With the increased use of Internet, governments and large companies store and share massive amounts of personal data in such a way that leaves no space for transparency. When a user needs to achieve a simple task like applying for college…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Sinica Alboaie , Doina Cosovan

In recent years, edge computing (EC) has attracted great attention for its high-speed computing and low-latency characteristics. However, there are many challenges in the implementation of EC. Firstly, user's privacy has been raised as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiqing Chang , Jin Wang , Kejie Lu , Lingzhi Li , Fei Gu , Jianping Wang

We consider constructing capacity-achieving linear codes with minimum message size for private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding databases, where each message is coded using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, such that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Hua Sun , Tie Liu