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A central question in information theory is to determine the maximum success probability that can be achieved in sending a fixed number of messages over a noisy channel. This was first studied in the pioneering work of Shannon who…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Siddharth Barman , Omar Fawzi

The group testing problem concerns discovering a small number of defective items within a large population by performing tests on pools of items. A test is positive if the pool contains at least one defective, and negative if it contains no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matthew Aldridge , Oliver Johnson , Jonathan Scarlett

We consider the group testing problem, in which one seeks to identify a subset of defective items within a larger set of items based on a number of noisy tests. While matching achievability and converse bounds are known in several cases of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

Noise is an important factor that influences the reliability of information acquisition, transmission, processing, and storage. In order to suppress the inevitable noise effects, a fault-tolerant information processing approach via quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Qi Song , Hongjing Li , Chengxi Yu , Jingzheng Huang , Ding Wang , Peng Huang , Guihua Zeng

We prove the partial strong converse property for the discrete memoryless \emph{non-degraded} wiretap channel, for which we require the leakage to the eavesdropper to vanish but allow an asymptotic error probability $\epsilon \in [0,1)$ to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Yi-Peng Wei , Sennur Ulukus

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains including healthcare, legal services, and confidential communications, where privacy is paramount. This paper introduces Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Geoff McDonald , Jonathan Bar Or

We propose a novel problem formulation to address the privacy-utility tradeoff, specifically when dealing with two distinct user groups characterized by unique sets of private and utility attributes. Unlike previous studies that primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Bishwas Mandal , George Amariucai , Shuangqing Wei

In this paper, we consider methods for performing hypothesis tests on data protected by a statistical disclosure control technology known as differential privacy. Previous approaches to differentially private hypothesis testing either…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yue Wang , Jaewoo Lee , Daniel Kifer

We study the secrecy capacity in the vicinity of colluding eavesdroppers. Contrary to the perfect collusion assumption in previous works, our new information-theoretic model considers constraints in collusion. We derive the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

We establish the capacity of a class of communication channels introduced in [1]. The $n$-letter input from a finite alphabet is passed through a discrete memoryless channel $P_{Z|X}$ and then the output $n$-letter sequence is uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jennifer Tang , Yury Polyanskiy

Private closeness testing asks to decide whether the underlying probability distributions of two sensitive datasets are identical or differ significantly in statistical distance, while guaranteeing (differential) privacy of the data. As in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Clément L. Canonne , Yucheng Sun

This paper technically explores the secrecy rate $\Lambda$ and a maximisation problem over the concave version of the secrecy outage probability (SOP) as $\mathop{{\rm \mathbb{M}ax}}\limits_{\Delta } {\rm \; } \mathbb{P}\mathscr{r} \big(…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Makan Zamanipour

The distributed hypothesis testing problem with full side-information is studied. The trade-off (reliability function) between the two types of error exponents under limited rate is studied in the following way. First, the problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Nir Weinberger , Yuval Kochman

Privacy-protected microdata are often the desired output of a differentially private algorithm since microdata is familiar and convenient for downstream users. However, there is a statistical price for this kind of convenience. We show that…

The tension between persuasion and privacy preservation is common in real-world settings. Online platforms should protect the privacy of web users whose data they collect, even as they seek to disclose information about these data to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yuqi Pan , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Haifeng Xu , Shuran Zheng

This paper studies communication scenarios where the transmitter and the receiver have different objectives due to privacy concerns, in the context of a variation of the strategic information transfer (SIT) model of Sobel and Crawford. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Emrah Akyol , Cedric Langbort , Tamer Basar

We study message identification over the noisy permutation channel. For discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), the number of identifiable messages grows doubly exponentially, and the maximum second-order exponent is same as the Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Abhishek Sarkar , Bikash Kumar Dey

We consider the problem of secure communications over the two-way wiretap channel under a strong secrecy criterion. We improve existing results by developing an achievable region based on strategies that exploit both the interference at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Alexandre J. Pierrot , Matthieu R. Bloch

This paper studies privacy in the context of complex decision support queries composed of multiple conditions on different aggregate statistics combined using disjunction and conjunction operators. Utility requirements for such queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Nada Lahjouji , Sameera Ghayyur , Xi He , Sharad Mehrotra

This paper considers point to point secure communication over flat fading channels under an outage constraint. More specifically, we extend the definition of outage capacity to account for the secrecy constraint and obtain sharp…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Onur Gungor , Jian Tan , C. Emre Koksal , Hesham El Gamal , Ness B. Shroff