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We consider a problem of coding for computing, where the decoder wishes to estimate a function of its local message and the source message at the encoder within a given distortion. We show that the rate-distortion function can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Bo Bai , Wei Han

Consider a distributed coding for computing problem with constant decoding locality, i.e., with a vanishing error probability, any single sample of the function can be approximately recovered by probing only constant number of compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin

When working with joint collections of confidential data from multiple sources, e.g., in cloud-based multi-party computation scenarios, the ownership relation between data providers and their inputs itself is confidential information.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Kilian Becher , Thorsten Strufe

In the distributed remote (CEO) source coding problem, many separate encoders observe independently noisy copies of an underlying source. The rate loss is the difference between the rate required in this distributed setting and the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Arda Atalik , Alper Köse , Michael Gastpar

A receiver wants to compute a function f of two correlated sources X and Y and side information Z. What is the minimum number of bits that needs to be communicated by each transmitter? In this paper, we derive inner and outer bounds to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Milad Sefidgaran , Aslan Tchamkerten

In this Part II of a two-part paper, we put forward secure network function computation, where in a directed acyclic network, a sink node is required to compute a target function of which the inputs are generated as source messages at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yang Bai , Xuan Guang , Raymond W. Yeung

Strict privacy is of paramount importance in distributed machine learning. Federated learning, with the main idea of communicating only what is needed for learning, has been recently introduced as a general approach for distributed learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Koskela , Kana Shimizu , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

Most of our lives are conducted in the cyberspace. The human notion of privacy translates into a cyber notion of privacy on many functions that take place in the cyberspace. This article focuses on three such functions: how to privately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Sennur Ulukus , Salman Avestimehr , Michael Gastpar , Syed Jafar , Ravi Tandon , Chao Tian

In secure multiparty computation (MPC), mutually distrusting users collaborate to compute a function of their private data without revealing any additional information about their data to other users. While it is known that information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

In this paper, we introduce a new notion of guaranteed privacy that requires that the change of the range of the corresponding inclusion function to the true function is small. In particular, leveraging mixed-monotone inclusion functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Mohammad Khajenejad , Sonia Martinez

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix computation (SDMC), where a \textit{user} queries a function of data matrices generated at distributed \textit{source} nodes. We assume the availability of $N$ honest but curious…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nitish Mital , Cong Ling , Deniz Gunduz

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

We propose an efficient framework for enabling secure multi-party numerical computations in a Peer-to-Peer network. This problem arises in a range of applications such as collaborative filtering, distributed computation of trust and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-15 Danny Bickson , Genia Bezman , Danny Dolev , Benny Pinkas

We consider the problem of designing a coding scheme that allows both sparsity and privacy for distributed matrix-vector multiplication. Perfect information-theoretic privacy requires encoding the input sparse matrices into matrices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Marvin Xhemrishi , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Privacy in federated learning is crucial, encompassing two key aspects: safeguarding the privacy of clients' data and maintaining the privacy of the federator's objective from the clients. While the first aspect has been extensively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Maximilian Egger , Rüdiger Urbanke , Rawad Bitar

Quantum metrology and cryptography can be combined in a distributed and/or remote sensing setting, where distant end-users with limited quantum capabilities can employ quantum states, transmitted by a quantum-powerful provider via a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 G. Bizzarri , M. Barbieri , M. Manrique , M. Parisi , F. Bruni , I. Gianani , M. Rosati

In this work, fundamental limits and optimal mechanisms of privacy-preserving data release that aims to minimize the privacy leakage under utility constraints of a set of multiple tasks are investigated. While the private feature to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ta-Yuan Liu , I-Hsiang Wang

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

This work addresses the problem of distributed computation of linearly separable functions, where a master node with access to $K$ datasets, employs $N$ servers to compute $L$ user-requested functions, each defined over the datasets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

Networked system often relies on distributed algorithms to achieve a global computation goal with iterative local information exchanges between neighbor nodes. To preserve data privacy, a node may add a random noise to its original data for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Xinping Guan