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In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In particular, by dividing two input matrices into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

We consider a large-scale matrix multiplication problem where the computation is carried out using a distributed system with a master node and multiple worker nodes, where each worker can store parts of the input matrices. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

In this work, we consider the problem of secure multi-party computation (MPC), consisting of $\Gamma$ sources, each has access to a large private matrix, $N$ processing nodes or workers, and one data collector or master. The master is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Seyed Reza Hoseini Najarkolaei , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Mohammad Reza Aref

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

We study the problem of computing matrix chain multiplications in a distributed computing cluster. In such systems, performance is often limited by the straggler problem, where the slowest worker dominates the overall computation latency.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebò

This work considers the problem of distributing matrix multiplication over the real or complex numbers to helper servers, such that the information leakage to these servers is close to being information-theoretically secure. These servers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM), where a user has two matrices and wishes to compute their product with the help of $N$ honest but curious servers under the security constraint that any information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Roberto Assis Machado , Felice Manganiello

Matrix completion is fundamental for predicting missing data with a wide range of applications in personalized healthcare, e-commerce, recommendation systems, and social network analysis. Traditional matrix completion approaches typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Patrick Hytla , Tran T. A. Nghia , Duy Nhat Phan , Andrew Rice

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We show how to construct polynomial schemes for the outer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ryann Cartor , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein , David Karpuk , Alex Sprintson

To preserve data privacy, multi-party computation (MPC) enables executing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms on private data. However, MPC frameworks do not include optimized operations on sparse data. This absence makes them unsuitable for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter , Jan Ramon

In this study, we propose a simple method for fault-tolerant Strassen-like matrix multiplications. The proposed method is based on using two distinct Strassen-like algorithms instead of replicating a given one. We have realized that using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Osman B. Guney , Suayb S. Arslan

We consider the problem of designing codes with flexible rate (referred to as rateless codes), for private distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ and hires worker…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) secure multiplication in distributed computing systems, focusing on regimes where perfect privacy and perfect accuracy cannot be simultaneously achieved. Specifically, N nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

We investigate the problem of privacy preserving distributed matrix multiplication in edge networks using multi-party computation (MPC). Coded multi-party computation (CMPC) is an emerging approach to reduce the required number of workers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Elahe Vedadi , Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Hulya Seferoglu

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We construct polynomial codes for SDMM by studying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , David Karpuk

This work considers the problem of privately outsourcing the computation of a matrix product over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ to $N$ helper servers. These servers are considered to be honest but curious, i.e., they behave according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jie Li , Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti , Oliver Gnilke

We consider polynomial codes for private distributed matrix multiplication (PDMM/SDMM). Existing codes for PDMM are either specialized for the outer product partitioning (OPP), or inner product partitioning (IPP), or are valid for the more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Christoph Hofmeister , Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

This work investigates the design of sparse secret sharing schemes that encode a sparse private matrix into sparse shares. This investigation is motivated by distributed computing, where the multiplication of sparse and private matrices is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Rawad Bitar , Maximilian Egger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Marvin Xhemrishi

Private computation in a distributed storage system (DSS) is a generalization of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem. In such setting a user wishes to compute a function of $f$ messages stored in $n$ noncolluding coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer