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In this paper, we study the problem of secure and private distributed matrix multiplication. Specifically, we focus on a scenario where a user wants to compute the product of a confidential matrix $A$, with a matrix $B_\theta$, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

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 2021-06-21 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein , David Karpuk

The problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) from a coded database which is distributively stored among colluding servers is studied. Specifically, the database comprises $K$ files, which are stored among $N$ servers using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Qiwen Wang , Mikael Skoglund

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Existing approaches to distributed matrix computations involve allocating coded combinations of submatrices to worker nodes, to build resilience to stragglers and/or enhance privacy. In this study, we consider the challenge of preserving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

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

In a typical formulation of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a single user wishes to retrieve one out of $ K$ files from $N$ servers without revealing the demanded file index to any server. This paper formulates an extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Tensor operations, such as matrix multiplication, are central to large-scale machine learning applications. For user-driven tasks these operations can be carried out on a distributed computing platform with a master server at the user side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Malihe Aliasgari , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

Given a collection of vectors $x^{(1)},\dots,x^{(n)} \in \{0,1\}^d$, the selection problem asks to report the index of an "approximately largest" entry in $x=\sum_{j=1}^n x^{(j)}$. Selection abstracts a host of problems--in machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ivan Damgård , Hannah Keller , Boel Nelson , Claudio Orlandi , Rasmus Pagh

Recent rapid development of sensor technology has allowed massive fine-grained time series (TS) data to be collected and set the foundation for the development of data-driven services and applications. During the process, data sharing is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Li Zhang , Jiahao Ding , Yifeng Gao , Jessica Lin

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

We consider the problem of communication efficient secure distributed matrix multiplication. The previous literature has focused on reducing the number of servers as a proxy for minimizing communication costs. The intuition being, that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Roberto Assis Machado , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein

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

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

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. In this paper, we answer the following question: Is it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein , David Karpuk

A secure multi-party batch matrix multiplication problem (SMBMM) is considered, where the goal is to allow a master to efficiently compute the pairwise products of two batches of massive matrices, by distributing the computation across S…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zhen Chen , Zhuqing Jia , Zhiying Wang , Syed A. Jafar

Privacy of the outsourced data is one of the major challenge.Insecurity of the network environment and untrustworthiness of the service providers are obstacles of making the database as a service.Collection and storage of personally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Divya G. Nair , V. P. Binu , G. Santhosh Kumar

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of privately retrieving one out of $M$ original files from $N$ severs, i.e., each individual server learns nothing about the file that the user is requesting. Usually, the $M$ files are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Jie Li , David Karpuk , Camilla Hollanti