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This paper investigates reducing sub-packetization of capacity-achieving schemes for uncoded Storage Constrained Private Information Retrieval (SC-PIR) systems. In the SC-PIR system, a user aims to retrieve one out of $K$ files from $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jinbao Zhu , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Ying Miao

A multi-user private data compression problem is studied. A server has access to a database of $N$ files, $(Y_1,...,Y_N)$, each of size $F$ bits and is connected to an encoder. The encoder is connected through an unsecured link to a user.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Deniz Gündüz , Mikael Skoglund

Large language model (LLM) routing has emerged as a critical strategy to balance model performance and cost-efficiency by dynamically selecting services from various model providers. However, LLM routing adds an intermediate layer between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xidong Wu , Yukuan Zhang , Yuqiong Ji , Reza Shirkavand , Qian Lou , Shangqian Gao

As machine learning as a service continues gaining popularity, concerns about privacy and intellectual property arise. Users often hesitate to disclose their private information to obtain a service, while service providers aim to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi , Haoyan Ni , Dimitry Linkov , Florian Kerschbaum

In Private Information Retrieval (PIR), one wants to download a file from a database without revealing to the database which file is being downloaded. Much attention has been paid to the case of the database being encoded across several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Razane Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , David Karpuk , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti , Salim El Rouayheb

Distributed control systems require high reliability and availability guarantees despite often being deployed at the edge of network infrastructure. Edge computing resources are less secure and less reliable than centralized resources in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Roy Shadmon , Daniel Spencer , Owen Arden

Consider a system, including a user, $N$ servers, and $K$ basic functions which are known at all of the servers. Using the combination of those basic functions, it is possible to construct a wide class of functions. The user wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Private set intersection (PSI) aims to allow users to find out the commonly shared items among the users without revealing other membership information. The most recently proposed approach to PSI in the database community was Prism, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dongfang Zhao

In the modern era of computing, machine learning tools have demonstrated their potential in vital sectors, such as healthcare and finance, to derive proper inferences. The sensitive and confidential nature of the data in such sectors raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Ajith Suresh

The problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) from replicated databases with colluding servers and adversaries is studied. Specifically, the database comprises $K$ files, which are replicatively stored among $N$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Qiwen Wang , Mikael Skoglund

Privacy and Byzantine resilience are two indispensable requirements for a federated learning (FL) system. Although there have been extensive studies on privacy and Byzantine security in their own track, solutions that consider both remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Wanyu Lin , Di Wang

In this work, we present novel protocols over rings for semi-honest secure three-party computation (3PC) and malicious four-party computation (4PC) with one corruption. While most existing works focus on improving total communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Christopher Harth-Kitzerow , Ajith Suresh , Yongqin Wang , Hossein Yalame , Georg Carle , Murali Annavaram

We introduce an information-theoretic framework, named Coded State Machine (CSM), to securely and efficiently execute multiple state machines on untrusted network nodes, some of which are Byzantine. The standard method of solving this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Songze Li , Saeid Sahraei , Mingchao Yu , Salman Avestimehr , Sreeram Kannan , Pramod Viswanath

We consider the problem of private computation (PC) in a distributed storage system. In such a setting a user wishes to compute a function of $f$ messages replicated across $n$ noncolluding databases, while revealing no information about…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

In this paper, we design secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols in the asynchronous communication setting with optimal resilience. Our protocols are secure against a computationally-unbounded malicious adversary, characterized by an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ananya Appan , Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury

Most existing secure neural network inference protocols based on secure multi-party computation (MPC) typically support at most four participants, demonstrating severely limited scalability. Liu et al. (USENIX Security'24) presented the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Qinghui Zhang , Xiaojun Chen , Yansong Zhang , Xudong Chen

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

Decentralized Pliable Index Coding (DPIC) problem addresses efficient information exchange in distributed systems where clients communicate among themselves without a central server. An important consideration in DPIC is the heterogeneity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anjali Padmanabhan , Danya Arun Bindhu , Nujoom Sageer Karat , Shanuja Sasi

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

Principal Subspace Analysis (PSA) -- and its sibling, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) -- is one of the most popular approaches for dimensionality reduction in signal processing and machine learning. But centralized PSA/PCA solutions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Arpita Gang , Bingqing Xiang , Waheed U. Bajwa