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We analyse the common information problem for the generalised Gray-Wyner problem. We aim to explore the problem and solution in relation to the non-orthogonality among the source decoders' components. We consider a simple networked control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Makan Zamanipour

We consider the binary hypothesis testing problem with two observers. There are two possible states of nature (or hypotheses). Observations collected by the two observers are statistically related to the true state of nature. The knowledge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Aneesh Raghavan , John S. Baras

A collaborative distributed binary decision problem is considered. Two statisticians are required to declare the correct probability measure of two jointly distributed memoryless process, denoted by $X^n=(X_1,\dots,X_n)$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Gil Katz , Pablo Piantanida , Merouane Debbah

In this work, we investigate two source coding models, a \emph{Helper} problem and a \emph{Gray-Wyner} problem, under equivocation constraints. Specifically, in the Helper problem, an encoder communicates with a legitimate receiver through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Meryem Benammar , Abdellatif Zaidi

This paper considers a problem of distributed hypothesis testing and social learning. Individual nodes in a network receive noisy local (private) observations whose distribution is parameterized by a discrete parameter (hypotheses). The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Anusha Lalitha , Tara Javidi , Anand Sarwate

This paper investigates the problem of secure lossy source coding in the presence of an eavesdropper with arbitrary correlated side informations at the legitimate decoder (referred to as Bob) and the eavesdropper (referred to as Eve). This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-25 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida

Private closeness testing asks to decide whether the underlying probability distributions of two sensitive datasets are identical or differ significantly in statistical distance, while guaranteeing (differential) privacy of the data. As in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Clément L. Canonne , Yucheng Sun

We study a hypothesis testing problem in which data is compressed distributively and sent to a detector that seeks to decide between two possible distributions for the data. The aim is to characterize all achievable encoding rates and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Md. Saifur Rahman , Aaron B. Wagner

Privacy against an adversary (AD) that tries to detect the underlying privacy-sensitive data distribution is studied. The original data sequence is assumed to come from one of the two known distributions, and the privacy leakage is measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Zuxing Li , Tobias J. Oechtering , Deniz Gunduz

In distributed hypothesis testing, a central server performs hypothesis testing based on information received from distributed sensors/clients. We study a secure variant of this problem in which the central server determines the hypothesis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gowtham R. Kurri , Varun Narayanan , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , K. R. Sahasranand

We study the adversarial binary hypothesis testing problem in the sequential setting. Associated with each hypothesis is a closed, convex set of distributions. Given the hypothesis, each observation is generated according to a distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Eeshan Modak , Mayank Bakshi , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

The distributed inference framework comprises of a group of spatially distributed nodes which acquire observations about a phenomenon of interest. Due to bandwidth and energy constraints, the nodes often quantize their observations into a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Bhavya Kailkhura , V. Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we revisit the discrete lossy Gray-Wyner problem. In particular, we derive its optimal second-order coding rate region, its error exponent (reliability function) and its moderate deviations constant under mild conditions on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehul Motani

We study the Chernoff-Stein exponent of the following binary hypothesis testing problem: Associated with each hypothesis is a set of channels. A transmitter, without knowledge of the hypothesis, chooses the vector of inputs to the channel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Eeshan Modak , Neha Sangwan , Mayank Bakshi , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We study goodness-of-fit and independence testing of discrete distributions in a setting where samples are distributed across multiple users. The users wish to preserve the privacy of their data while enabling a central server to perform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Jayadev Acharya , Clément L. Canonne , Cody Freitag , Ziteng Sun , Himanshu Tyagi

In this work, we establish a full single-letter characterization of the rate-distortion region of an instance of the Gray-Wyner model with side information at the decoders. Specifically, in this model an encoder observes a pair of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Meryem Benammar , Abdellatif Zaidi

In this paper, new inner and outer bounds on the achievable compression-equivocation rate region for generalized secure data compression with side information are given that do not match in general. In this setup, two senders, Alice and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-07 Somayeh Salimi , Mahmoud Salmasizadeh , Mohammad Reza Aref

We study simple binary hypothesis testing under both local differential privacy (LDP) and communication constraints. We qualify our results as either minimax optimal or instance optimal: the former hold for the set of distribution pairs…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Ankit Pensia , Amir R. Asadi , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

We study the problem of discrete distribution testing in the two-party setting. For example, in the standard closeness testing problem, Alice and Bob each have $t$ samples from, respectively, distributions $a$ and $b$ over $[n]$, and they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Alexandr Andoni , Tal Malkin , Negev Shekel Nosatzki

We study distributed hypothesis testing under a covertness constraint in the non-alert situation, which requires that under the null-hypothesis an external warden be unable to detect whether communication between the sensor and the decision…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Ismaila Salihou Adamou , Michèle Wigger