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This paper introduces the problem of Private Information Retrieval with Reusable and Single-use Side Information (PIR-RSSI). In this problem, one or more remote servers store identical copies of a set of $K$ messages, and there is a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Transparency and explainability are two extremely important aspects to be considered when employing black-box machine learning models in high-stake applications. Providing counterfactual explanations is one way of fulfilling this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mohamed Nomeir , Pasan Dissanayake , Shreya Meel , Sanghamitra Dutta , Sennur Ulukus

We study the problem of pliable private information retrieval with side information (PPIR-SI) for the single server case. In PPIR, the messages are partitioned into nonoverlapping classes and stored in a number of noncolluding databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes

Private information retrieval (PIR) considers the problem of retrieving a data item from a database or distributed storage system without disclosing any information about which data item was retrieved. Secure PIR complements this problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Okko Makkonen , David Karpuk , Camilla Hollanti

We investigate the problem of semantic private information retrieval (semantic PIR). In semantic PIR, a user retrieves a message out of $K$ independent messages stored in $N$ replicated and non-colluding databases without revealing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sajani Vithana , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem a user wishes to retrieve, as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while revealing nothing about the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

$X$-secure and $T$-private information retrieval (XSTPIR) is a variant of private information retrieval where data security is guaranteed against collusion among up to $X$ servers and the user's retrieval privacy is guaranteed against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuan Gao , Weijun Fang , Jingke Xu , Jiejing Wen

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to retrieve a desired message out of $K$ possible messages from $N$ databases without revealing the identity of the desired message. Majority of existing works on PIR assume the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Maryam Abdul-Wahid , Firas Almoualem , Deepak Kumar , Ravi Tandon

In Pliable Private Information Retrieval (PPIR) with a single server, messages are partitioned into $\Gamma$ non-overlapping classes. The user wants to retrieve a message from its desired class without revealing the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Megha Rayer , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

We consider the problem of multi-access cache-aided multi-user Private Information Retrieval (MuPIR). In this problem, several files are replicated across multiple servers. There are $K$ users and $C$ cache nodes. Each user can access $L$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

Multi-message private information retrieval (MPIR) is an interesting variation of PIR which allows a user to download multiple messages from the database without revealing the identity of the desired messages. Obviously, the user can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Chatdanai Dorkson , Siaw-Lynn Ng

We consider the problem of cache-aided multi-user private information retrieval (MuPIR). In this problem, $N$ independent files are replicated across $S \geq 2$ non-colluding servers. There are $K$ users, each equipped with cache memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

In this paper, we study the multi-server setting of the \emph{Private Information Retrieval with Coded Side Information (PIR-CSI)} problem. In this problem, there are $K$ messages replicated across $N$ servers, and there is a user who…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a single message from $N$ non-communicating and non-colluding databases (servers). All servers store the same set of $M$ messages and they respond…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while keeping the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that enables users to retrieve data from a database without revealing which item is being accessed, thereby preserving query privacy. However, PIR protocols also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lin Zhu , Lingwei Kong , Xin Ning , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang

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 2-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the $i$th bit of an $n$-bit database replicated among two servers (which do not communicate) while not revealing any information about $i$ to either server. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zeev Dvir , Sivakanth Gopi

This paper revisits the problem of multi-server Private Information Retrieval with Private Side Information (PIR-PSI). In this problem, $N$ non-colluding servers store identical copies of $K$ messages, each comprising $L$ symbols from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Leila Erhili , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve entries of a database without revealing the index of the desired item. Information-theoretical privacy can be achieved by the use of several servers and specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Julien Lavauzelle