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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…

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This study examines a resource-sharing problem involving multiple parties that agree to use a set of capacities together. We start with modeling the whole problem as a mathematical program, where all parties are required to exchange…

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The exponential growth of data collection necessitates robust privacy protections that preserve data utility. We address information disclosure against adversaries with bounded prior knowledge, modeled by an entropy constraint $H(X) \geq…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Genqiang Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Yu Qi , Hao Wang , Jikui Wang , Yeping He

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (PIR) when there is heterogeneity in servers' trustworthiness under the maximal leakage (Max-L) metric and mutual information (MI) metric. A user wishes to retrieve a desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenyuan Zhao , Yu-Shin Huang , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem when individual privacy is required. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages belonging to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem with individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ independent linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Nahid Esmati , Alex Sprintson

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

This paper introduces the problem of Private Linear Transformation (PLT) which generalizes the problems of private information retrieval and private linear computation. The PLT problem includes one or more remote server(s) storing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Nahid Esmati , Alex Sprintson

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

We study the trade-off between communication rate and privacy for distributed batch matrix multiplication of two independent sequences of matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ with uniformly distributed entries. In our setting,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amirhosein Morteza , Remi A. Chou

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy protection, especially in settings in which the server collecting the data is untrusted. However, designing LDP mechanisms that achieve an optimal trade-off between privacy, utility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs

With changes in privacy laws, there is often a hard requirement for client data to remain on the device rather than being sent to the server. Therefore, most processing happens on the device, and only an altered element is sent to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ajinkya K Mulay

We study the problem of single-server multi-message private information retrieval with side information. One user wants to recover $N$ out of $K$ independent messages which are stored at a single server. The user initially possesses a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Su Li , Michael Gastpar

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem from decentralized uncoded caching databases. There are two phases in our problem setting, a caching phase, and a retrieval phase. In the caching phase, a data center containing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yi-Peng Wei , Batuhan Arasli , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

This paper considers the problem of single-server Individually-Private Information Retrieval with side information (IPIR). In this problem, there is a remote server that stores a dataset of $K$ messages, and there is a user that initially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We introduce the problem of Private Linear Transformation (PLT). This problem includes a single (or multiple) remote server(s) storing (identical copies of) $K$ messages and a user who wants to compute $L$ linear combinations of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-07 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Data publishing under privacy constraints can be achieved with mechanisms that add randomness to data points when released to an untrusted party, thereby decreasing the data's utility. In this paper, we analyze this privacy-utility tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Tobias Oechtering

A privacy-utility tradeoff is developed for an arbitrary set of finite-alphabet source distributions. Privacy is quantified using differential privacy (DP), and utility is quantified using expected Hamming distortion maximized over the set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Kousha Kalantari , Lalitha Sankar , Anand Sarwate

Information leakage to a guessing adversary in index coding is studied, where some messages in the system are sensitive and others are not. The non-sensitive messages can be used by the server like secret keys to mitigate leakage of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yucheng Liu , Lawrence Ong , Phee Lep Yeoh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Joerg Kliewer , Sarah Johnson

The current framework of network utility maximization for distributed rate allocation assumes fixed channel code rates. However, by adapting the physical layer channel coding, different rate-reliability tradeoffs can be achieved on each…

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