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Symmetric private information retrieval is a cryptographic task allowing a user to query a database and obtain exactly one entry without revealing to the owner of the database which element was accessed. The task is a variant of general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Esther Hänggi , Severin Winkler

A private data federation is a set of autonomous databases that share a unified query interface offering in-situ evaluation of SQL queries over the union of the sensitive data of its members. Owing to privacy concerns, these systems do not…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Johes Bater , Xi He , William Ehrich , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Jennie Rogers

Suppose there are $N$ distributed databases each storing a full set of $M$ independent files. A user wants to retrieve $r$ out of the $M$ files without revealing the identity of the $r$ files. When $r=1$ it is the classic problem of private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

Secure sum computation of private data inputs is an interesting example of Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) which has attracted many researchers to devise secure protocols with lower probability of data leakage. In this paper, we provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

As one of the most important basic operations, matrix multiplication computation (MMC) has varieties of applications in the scientific and engineering community such as linear regression, k-nearest neighbor classification and biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chun Liu , Xuexian Hu , Xiaofeng Chen , Jianghong Wei , Wenfen Liu

Traditional collaborative learning approaches are based on sharing of model weights between clients and a server. However, there are advantages to resource efficiency through schemes based on sharing of embeddings (activations) created from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Praneeth Vepakomma , Kaustubh Ponkshe

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes enable users to securely retrieve files from a server without disclosing the content of their queries, thereby preserving their privacy. In 2008, Melchor and Gaborit proposed a PIR scheme that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Svenja Lage

We propose a novel protocol for computing a circuit which implements the multi-party private set intersection functionality (PSI). Circuit-based approach has advantages over using custom protocols to achieve this task, since many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jiuheng Su , Zhili Chen

We introduce baseSPIDER and SPIDER, private information retrieval (PIR) schemes that embody two technical advancements. The baseSPIDER protocol operates with a single server and a stateful client that performs pre-processing and stores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ofir Dvir , Kali Hale , Javin Zipkin , Divyakant Agrawal , Dahlia Malkhi

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

Differential privacy (DP) provides formal guarantees that the output of a database query does not reveal too much information about any individual present in the database. While many differentially private algorithms have been proposed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Royce J Wilson , Celia Yuxin Zhang , William Lam , Damien Desfontaines , Daniel Simmons-Marengo , Bryant Gipson

Algorithms for oblivious random access machine (ORAM) simulation allow a client, Alice, to obfuscate a pattern of data accesses with a server, Bob, who is maintaining Alice's outsourced data while trying to learn information about her data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Michael T. Goodrich

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in order to handle exploding amount of data. In this paper, we study an important yet less visited distributed learning problem where features are inherently distributed or vertically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yaochen Hu , Peng Liu , Linglong Kong , Di Niu

In this paper, the problem of providing privacy to users requesting data over a network from a distributed storage system (DSS) is considered. The DSS, which is considered as the multi-terminal destination of the network from the user's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Camilla Hollanti

Secret sharing is a new alternative for outsourcing data in a secure way.It avoids the need for time consuming encryption decryption process and also the complexity involved in key management.The data must also be protected from untrusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-27 V. P. Binu , A. Sreekumar

We study synthetic data release for answering multiple linear queries over a set of database tables in a differentially private way. Two special cases have been considered in the literature: how to release a synthetic dataset for answering…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Badih Ghazi , Xiao Hu , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Many data analysis operations can be expressed as a GROUP BY query on an unbounded set of partitions, followed by a per-partition aggregation. To make such a query differentially private, adding noise to each aggregation is not enough: we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Damien Desfontaines , James Voss , Bryant Gipson , Chinmoy Mandayam

We consider a special case of $X$-secure $T$-private information retrieval (XSTPIR), where the security requirement is \emph{asymmetric} due to possible missing communication links between the $N$ databases considered in the system. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Mohamed Nomeir , Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

Recently collaborative learning is widely applied to model sensitive data generated in Industrial IoT (IIoT). It enables a large number of devices to collectively train a global model by collaborating with a server while keeping the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jayasree Sengupta , Sushmita Ruj , Sipra Das Bit

We give new mechanisms for answering exponentially many queries from multiple analysts on a private database, while protecting differential privacy both for the individuals in the database and for the analysts. That is, our mechanism's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Justin Hsu , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman