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Secure aggregation is motivated by federated learning (FL) where a cloud server aims to compute an {aggregated} model (i.e., weights of deep neural networks) of the locally-trained models of numerous clients {through an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

The demand private coded caching problem in a multi-access network with $K$ users and $K$ caches, where each user has access to $L$ neighbouring caches in a cyclic wrap-around manner, is studied. The additional constraint imposed is that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

We examine a two-layered hierarchical coded caching problem, a configuration addressed in existing research. This involves a server connected to $K_1$ mirrors, each of which serves $K_2$ users. The mirrors and the users are equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Rajlaxmi Pandey , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

We consider a coded caching problem with multiple demands under a privacy constraint. In this problem, a server with access to \(N\) files serves \(K\) users over a shared link, and each user requests \(L\) distinct files. The privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qinyi Lu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

We study the problem of caching optimization in heterogeneous networks with mutual interference and per-file rate constraints from an energy efficiency perspective. A setup is considered in which two cache-enabled transmitter nodes and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Estefanía Recayte , Giuseppe Cocco

The beginning of the 21st century has seen many projects on distributed hash tables, both research and commercial. One of their aims has been to replace the first generation of file sharing software with scalable peer-to-peer architectures.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-17 Kari Visala

The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the shared link caching network, in which a single source with access to a file library communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mingyue Ji , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

The widespread use of cloud computing services raises the question of how one can delegate the processing tasks to the untrusted distributed parties without breeching the privacy of its data and algorithms. Motivated by the algorithm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider a coded caching system in which some users are offline at the time of delivery. Such systems are called hotplug coded caching systems. A placement delivery array (PDA) is a well-known tool for constructing a coded caching scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

Caching is an efficient technique to reduce peak traffic by storing popular content in local caches. Placement delivery array (PDA) proposed by Yan et al. is a combinatorial structure to design coded caching schemes with uncoded placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jinyu Wang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

In a Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol, a user can download a file from a database without revealing the identity of the file to each individual server. A PIR protocol is called $t$-private if the identity of the file remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo , Eitan Yaakobi

Despite significant progress in the caching literature concerning the worst case and uniform average case regimes, the algorithms for caching with nonuniform demands are still at a basic stage and mostly rely on simple grouping and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Pierre Quinton , Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

In hierarchical secure aggregation (HSA), a server communicates with clustered users through an intermediate layer of relays to compute the sum of users' inputs under two security requirements -- server security and relay security. Server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Jiawen Lv , Jihao Fan , Haiqiang Chen , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching is an emerging technique to reduce the data transmission load during the peak-traffic times. In such a scheme, each file in the data center or library is usually divided into a number of packets to pursue a low broadcasting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Xianzhang Wu , Minquan Cheng , Congduan Li , Li Chen

In this work, we consider the multi-access combinatorial topology with $C$ caches where each user accesses a unique set of $r$ caches. For this setup, we consider secrecy, where each user should not know anything about the files it did not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mallikharjuna Chinnapadamala , B. Sundar Rajan

Previous works in the differential privacy literature that allow users to choose their privacy levels typically operate under the heterogeneous differential privacy (HDP) framework with the simplifying assumption that user data and privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

In collaborative learning, multiple parties contribute their datasets to jointly deduce global machine learning models for numerous predictive tasks. Despite its efficacy, this learning paradigm fails to encompass critical application…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Xianrui Meng , Dimitrios Papadopoulos , Alina Oprea , Nikos Triandopoulos

Caching is a promising solution to satisfy the ever increasing demands for the multi-media traffics. In caching networks, coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains over the uncoded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Qifa Yan , Minquan Cheng , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen

Coded caching is a promising technique to smooth out network traffic by storing part of the library content at the users' local caches. The seminal work on coded caching for single file retrieval by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) showed the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

Driven by the growth of Web-scale decentralized services, Federated Clustering (FC) aims to extract knowledge from heterogeneous clients in an unsupervised manner while preserving the clients' privacy, which has emerged as a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shenghong Cai , Zihua Yang , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yuzhu Ji , Yiqun Zhang , Yiu-Ming Cheung