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Deep learning (DL) approaches are achieving extraordinary results in a wide range of domains, but often require a massive collection of private data. Hence, methods for training neural networks on the joint data of different data owners,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Derian Boer , Stefan Kramer

Performing computations while maintaining privacy is an important problem in todays distributed machine learning solutions. Consider the following two set ups between a client and a server, where in setup i) the client has a public data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Praneeth Vepakomma , Julia Balla , Ramesh Raskar

In this work, we propose a differentially private algorithm for publishing matrices aggregated from sparse vectors. These matrices include social network adjacency matrices, user-item interaction matrices in recommendation systems, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Tetsuo Shibuya

This paper presents a perfectly secure matrix multiplication (PSMM) protocol for multiparty computation (MPC) of $\mathrm{A}^{\top}\mathrm{B}$ over finite fields. The proposed scheme guarantees correctness and information-theoretic privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zixuan He , Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Derya Malak , Photios A. Stavrou

In secure multi-party computations (SMC), parties wish to compute a function on their private data without revealing more information about their data than what the function reveals. In this paper, we investigate two Shannon-type questions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Eun Jee Lee , Emmanuel Abbe

One-shot federated learning enables multi-site inference with minimal communication. However, sharing summary statistics can still leak sensitive individual-level information when sites have only a small number of patients. In particular,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-02 Keisuke Hanada , Toshio Shimokawa , Kazushi Maruo

The emergence of cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for users -- massive and complex computing tasks can be outsourced to cloud servers. However, the privacy issues also follow. Fully homomorphic encryption shows great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Lizhi Xiong , Wenhao Zhou , Zhihua Xia , Qi Gu , Jian Weng

We propose a new cryptographic task, which we call verifiable quantum secure modulo summation. Secure modulo summation is a calculation of modulo summation $Y_1+\ldots+ Y_m$ when $m$ players have their individual variables $Y_1,\ldots, Y_m$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi , Takeshi Koshiba

Discovering frequent graph patterns in a graph database offers valuable information in a variety of applications. However, if the graph dataset contains sensitive data of individuals such as mobile phone-call graphs and web-click graphs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Entong Shen , Ting Yu

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

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

In this work we explore the problem of answering a set of sum queries under Differential Privacy. This is a little understood, non-trivial problem especially in the case of numerical domains. We show that traditional techniques from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yikai Wu , David Pujol , Ios Kotsogiannis , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

In this paper, we present a protocol for computing the principal eigenvector of a collection of data matrices belonging to multiple semi-honest parties with privacy constraints. Our proposed protocol is based on secure multi-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Manas A. Pathak , Bhiksha Raj

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

Connecting quantum computers to a quantum network opens a wide array of new applications, such as securely performing computations on distributed data sets. Near-term quantum networks are noisy, however, and hence correctness and security…

In this work, we introduce a differentially private method for generating synthetic data from vertically partitioned data, \emph{i.e.}, where data of the same individuals is distributed across multiple data holders or parties. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Razane Tajeddine , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

The sparse vector technique is a powerful differentially private primitive that allows an analyst to check whether queries in a stream are greater or lesser than a threshold. This technique has a unique property -- the algorithm works by…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Yan Chen , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

We examine the combination of two directions in the field of privacy concerning computations over distributed private inputs - secure function evaluation (SFE) and differential privacy. While in both the goal is to privately evaluate some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Amos Beimel , Kobbi Nissim , Eran Omri

Recently, Yang et al. (Quantum Inf Process:17:129, 2018) proposed a secure multi-party quantum summation protocol allowing the involved participants to sum their secrets privately. They claimed that the proposed protocol can prevent each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Jun Gu , Tzonelih Hwang

How to achieve differential privacy in the distributed setting, where the dataset is distributed among the distrustful parties, is an important problem. We consider in what condition can a protocol inherit the differential privacy property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Genqiang Wu , Yeping He , Jingzheng Wu , Xianyao Xia