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Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to retrieve a desired message from a set of databases without revealing the identity of the desired message. The replicated databases scenario was considered by Sun and Jafar, 2016, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mohamed Adel Attia , Deepak Kumar , Ravi Tandon

We introduce the \emph{Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (PSSR)} problem, where a user retrieves $D$ messages from a database of $K$ messages replicated across $N$ non-colluding servers, and the demand is restricted to a known structured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

This work introduces the \emph{Secure and Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (SPSSR)} problem. In SPSSR, a user wishes to retrieve one subset from an arbitrary family of size-$D$ subsets from $K$ messages replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

In this paper, we explore how quantum resources can be used to increase the rate of private distributed matrix multiplication (PDMM). In PDMM, a user who has two high-dimensional matrices, $A$ and $B$, and lacks the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mohamed Nomeir , Alptug Aytekin , Lei Hu , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of $T$-Private Information Retrieval with private side information (TPIR-PSI). In this problem, $N$ replicated databases store $K$ independent messages, and a user, equipped with a local cache that holds $M$ messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed Jafar

Given a collection of vectors $x^{(1)},\dots,x^{(n)} \in \{0,1\}^d$, the selection problem asks to report the index of an "approximately largest" entry in $x=\sum_{j=1}^n x^{(j)}$. Selection abstracts a host of problems--in machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ivan Damgård , Hannah Keller , Boel Nelson , Claudio Orlandi , Rasmus Pagh

Numerical linear algebra plays an important role in computer science. In this paper, we initiate the study of performing linear algebraic tasks while preserving privacy when the data is streamed online. Our main focus is the space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jalaj Upadhyay

The distributed linearly separable computation problem finds extensive applications across domains such as distributed gradient coding, distributed linear transform, real-time rendering, etc. In this paper, we investigate this problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haoning Chen , Minquan Cheng , Zhenhao Huang , Youlong Wu

We study the problem of single-server single-message Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information (PIR-PCSI). In this problem, there is a server that stores a database, and a user who knows a random linear combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Fatemeh Kazemi , Alex Sprintson

Decentralized learning is an efficient emerging paradigm for boosting the computing capability of multiple bounded computing agents. In the big data era, performing inference within the distributed and federated learning (DL and FL)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mohamed Ridha Znaidi , Gaurav Gupta , Paul Bogdan

It was recently observed in [1], that in index coding, learning the coding matrix used by the server can pose privacy concerns: curious clients can extract information about the requests and side information of other clients. One approach…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mohammed Karmoose , Linqi Song , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

Federated learning (FL) allows to train a massive amount of data privately due to its decentralized structure. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is commonly used for FL due to its good empirical performance, but sensitive user information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Muah Kim , Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer

Clustering problems (such as $k$-means and $k$-median) are fundamental unsupervised machine learning primitives, and streaming clustering algorithms have been extensively studied in the past. However, since data privacy becomes a central…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Alessandro Epasto , Tamalika Mukherjee , Peilin Zhong

Differentially private federated learning is crucial for maintaining privacy in distributed environments. This paper investigates the challenges of high-dimensional estimation and inference under the constraints of differential privacy.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-26 Zhe Zhang , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang

The multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing problem is considered here, in which $N$ servers help to compute the real-valued functions requested by $K$ users, where each function can be written as a linear combination of up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ali Khalesi , Sajad Daei , Marios Kountouris , Petros Elia

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

Most deep learning frameworks require users to pool their local data or model updates to a trusted server to train or maintain a global model. The assumption of a trusted server who has access to user information is ill-suited in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lingjuan Lyu , Yitong Li , Xuanli He , Tong Xiao

Federated learning (FL) empowers distributed clients to collaboratively train a shared machine learning model through exchanging parameter information. Despite the fact that FL can protect clients' raw data, malicious users can still crack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yipeng Zhou , Xuezheng Liu , Yao Fu , Di Wu , Chao Li , Shui Yu