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This paper considers the problem of multi-server Private Linear Computation, under the joint and individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, identical copies of a dataset comprised of $K$ messages are stored on $N$ non-colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

An old and fundamental problem in databases and data streams is that of finding the heavy hitters, also known as the top-$k$, most popular items, frequent items, elephants, or iceberg queries. There are several variants of this problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-08 David P. Woodruff

Desktops and laptops can be maliciously exploited to violate privacy. In this paper, we consider the daily battle between the passive attacker who is targeting a specific user against a user that may be adversarial opponent. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amit Dvir , Yehonatan Zion , Jonathan Muehlstein , Ofir Pele , Chen Hajaj , Ran Dubin

Split learning (SL) aims to protect user data privacy by distributing deep models between client-server and keeping private data locally. In SL training with multiple clients, the local model weights are shared among the clients for local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ngoc Duy Pham , Tran Khoa Phan , Alsharif Abuadbba , Yansong Gao , Doan Nguyen , Naveen Chilamkurti

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem for a multigraph-based replication system, where each set of $r$ files is stored on two of the servers according to an underlying $r$-multigraph. Our goal is to establish upper and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shreya Meel , Xiangliang Kong , Thomas Jacob Maranzatto , Itzhak Tamo , Sennur Ulukus

Patient datasets contain confidential information which is protected by laws and regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR. Ensuring comprehensive patient information necessitates privacy-preserving entity resolution (PPER), which identifies…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Yixiang Yao , Joseph Cecil , Praveen Angyan , Neil Bahroos , Srivatsan Ravi

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (W-PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a desired message from $N$ non-colluding servers in a way that the privacy leakage regarding the desired message's identity is less than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chengyuan Qian , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Tie Liu

In this work, we study the problem of privacy preserving computation on PageRank algorithm. The idea is to enforce the secure multi party computation of the algorithm iteratively using homomorphic encryption based on Paillier scheme. In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ferhat Ozgur Catak

This paper focuses on the Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem in the multi-server scenario. In this problem, there are $N$ servers, each of which stores an identical copy of a database consisting of $K$ independent messages, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Fatemeh Kazemi , Alex Sprintson

To derive valuable insights from statistics, machine learning applications frequently analyze substantial amounts of data. In this work, we address the problem of designing efficient secure techniques to probe large datasets which allow a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Malika Izabachène , Jean-Philippe Bossuat

We present STAMP (Selective Task-Aware Mechanism for Text Privacy), a new framework for task-aware text privatization that achieves an improved privacy-utility trade-off. STAMP selectively allocates privacy budgets across tokens by jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Fengwei Tian , Payel Bhattacharjee , Heidi Hanson , Geoffrey D. Rubin , Joseph Y. Lo , Ravi Tandon

We introduce a new algorithm, Construction of dIfferentially Private Empirical Distributions from a low-order marginals set tHrough solving linear Equations with l2 Regularization (CIPHER), that produces differentially private empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Evercita C. Eugenio , Fang Liu

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 2020-08-10 Matteo Allaix , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Camilla Hollanti

As the modern world becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, distributed signal processing has proven to be effective in processing its large volume of data. However, a main challenge limiting the broad use of distributed signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Classical privacy-preserving computation techniques safeguard sensitive data in cloud computing, but often suffer from low computational efficiency. In this paper, we show that employing a single quantum server can significantly enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Guangsheng Ma , Hongbo Li

We present a new algorithm for locating a small cluster of points with differential privacy [Dwork, McSherry, Nissim, and Smith, 2006]. Our algorithm has implications to private data exploration, clustering, and removal of outliers.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Kobbi Nissim , Uri Stemmer , Salil Vadhan

Private computation is a generalization of private information retrieval, in which a user is able to compute a function on a distributed dataset without revealing the identity of that function to the servers. In this paper it is shown that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Netanel Raviv , David A. Karpuk

Traditional methods in public key cryptography are based on number theory, and suffer from problems such as dealing with very large numbers, making key creation cumbersome. Here, we propose a new public key cryptosystem based on strings…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-20 M. Andrecut

Recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has been adopted by many web service providers like Google \cite{erlingsson2014rappor}, Apple \cite{apple2017privacy} and Microsoft \cite{bolin2017telemetry} to collect and analyse users' data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhongzheng Xiong , Jialin Sun , Xiaojun Mao , Jian Wang , Shan Ying , Zengfeng Huang

Dark web crawling is a complex process that involves specific methodologies and techniques to navigate the Tor network and extract data from hidden services. This study proposes a general dark web crawler designed to extract pages handling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Daniel De Pascale , Giuseppe Cascavilla , Damian A. Tamburri , Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel