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Matrix multiplication is one of the key operations in various engineering applications. Outsourcing large-scale matrix multiplication tasks to multiple distributed servers or cloud is desirable to speed up computation. However, security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

We consider the problem of private distributed multi-party multiplication. It is well-established that Shamir secret-sharing coding strategies can enable perfect information-theoretic privacy in distributed computation via the celebrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Viveck R. Cadambe , Ateet Devulapalli , Haewon Jeong , Flavio P. Calmon

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

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

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

The overall execution time of distributed matrix computations is often dominated by slow worker nodes (stragglers) within the clusters. Recently, different coding techniques have been utilized to mitigate the effect of stragglers where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy

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

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce have become essential for large-scale data processing by decomposing tasks across multiple nodes. The multi-access distributed computing (MADC) model further advances this paradigm by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shanuja Sasi

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 revisit the problem of secure aggregation of high-dimensional vectors in a two-server system such as Prio. These systems are typically used to aggregate vectors such as gradients in private federated learning, where the aggregate itself…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hilal Asi , Vitaly Feldman , Hannah Keller , Guy N. Rothblum , Kunal Talwar

We present an algorithm to reduce the computational effort for the multiplication of a given matrix with an unknown column vector. The algorithm decomposes the given matrix into a product of matrices whose entries are either zero or integer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ralf R. Müller , Bernhard Gäde , Ali Bereyhi

Polynomial based approaches, such as the Mat-Dot and entangled polynomial codes (EPC) have been used extensively within coded matrix computations to obtain schemes with good recovery thresholds. However, these schemes are well-recognized to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kyungrak Son , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Artificial intelligence workloads, especially transformer models, exhibit emergent sparsity in which computations perform selective sparse access to dense data. The workloads are inefficient on hardware designed for dense computations and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Brian Wheatman , Meghana Madhyastha , Randal Burns

The distributed matrix multiplication problem with an unknown number of stragglers is considered, where the goal is to efficiently and flexibly obtain the product of two massive matrices by distributing the computation across N servers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Weiqi Li , Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed A. Jafar , Hamid Jafarkhani

Supporting multiple partial computations efficiently at each of the workers is a keystone in distributed coded computing in order to speed up computations and to fully exploit the resources of heterogeneous workers in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Burak Hasırcıoğlu , Deniz Gündüz

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 consider the setting of a Master server, M, who possesses confidential data (e.g., personal, genomic or medical data) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The Master wants to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

In many signal processing and machine learning applications, datasets containing private information are held at different locations, requiring the development of distributed privacy-preserving algorithms. Tensor and matrix factorizations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-23 Hafiz Imtiaz , Anand D. Sarwate

In this paper, we present secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) schemes over the complex numbers with good numerical stability and small mutual information leakage by utilizing polynomial interpolation with roots of unity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti

The introduction of the new multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing framework, has recently revealed how a parallel treatment of users can yield large parallelization gains with relatively low computation and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amir Masoud Jafarpisheh , Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia