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In a secure coded caching system, a central server balances the traffic flow between peak and off-peak periods by distributing some public data to the users' caches in advance. Meanwhile, these data are securely protected against the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kangning Ma , Shuo Shao

In decentralized federated learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively learn a shared machine learning (ML) model by leveraging their privately held datasets distributed across the network, through interactive exchange of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Shuangyang Li , Kai Wan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates the fundamental limits of information-theoretic decentralized secure aggregation (DSA) with user dropouts. We consider a fully decentralized network where $K$ users communicate over broadcast channels without a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Han Yu , Giuseppe Caire

Secure Aggregation protocols allow a collection of mutually distrust parties, each holding a private value, to collaboratively compute the sum of those values without revealing the values themselves. We consider training a deep neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Keith Bonawitz , Vladimir Ivanov , Ben Kreuter , Antonio Marcedone , H. Brendan McMahan , Sarvar Patel , Daniel Ramage , Aaron Segal , Karn Seth

We discuss secure computation of modular sum when multiple access channel from distinct players $A_1, \ldots, A_c$ to a third party (Receiver) is given. Then, we define the secure modulo sum capacity as the supremum of the transmission rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Masahito Hayashi

Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute a linearly separable function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims to alleviate the bottlenecks of stragglers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

In secure multiparty computation (MPC), mutually distrusting users collaborate to compute a function of their private data without revealing any additional information about their data to other users. While it is known that information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

In this paper, we investigate function computation problems under different secure conditions over a network with multiple source nodes and a single sink node which desires a function of all source messages without error. A wiretapper has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Min Xu , Gennian Ge , Minqian Liu

Secure aggregation is a cryptographic protocol that securely computes the aggregation of its inputs. It is pivotal in keeping model updates private in federated learning. Indeed, the use of secure aggregation prevents the server from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dario Pasquini , Danilo Francati , Giuseppe Ateniese

A subset of a set of terminals that observe correlated signals seek to compute a given function of the signals using public communication. It is required that the value of the function be kept secret from an eavesdropper with access to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-20 Himanshu Tyagi , Prakash Narayan , Piyush Gupta

Consider multiple users and a fusion center. Each user possesses a sequence of bits and can communicate with the fusion center through a one-way public channel. The fusion center's task is to compute the sum of all the sequences under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Remi A. Chou , Joerg Kliewer , Aylin Yener

Motivated by the importance of floating-point computations, we study the problem of securely and accurately summing many floating-point numbers. Prior work has focused on security absent accuracy or accuracy absent security, whereas our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Marina Blanton , Michael T. Goodrich , Chen Yuan

Two user secure computation of randomized functions is considered, where only one user computes the output. Both the users are semi-honest; and computation is such that no user learns any additional information about the other user's input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Deepesh Data

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

This paper considers a multi-message secure aggregation with privacy problem, in which a server aims to compute $\sf K_c\geq 1$ linear combinations of local inputs from $\sf K$ distributed users. The problem addresses two tasks: (1)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chenyi Sun , Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

Consider a network of k parties, each holding a long sequence of n entries (a database), with minimum vertex-cut greater than t. We show that any empirical statistic across the network of databases can be computed by each party with perfect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ye Wang , Shantanu Rane , Prakash Ishwar , Wei Sun

Developing secure distributed systems is difficult, and even harder when advanced cryptography must be used to achieve security goals. Following prior work, we advocate using secure program partitioning to synthesize cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Coşku Acay , Joshua Gancher , Rolph Recto , Andrew C. Myers

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) allows parties to know the result of cooperative computation while preserving privacy of individual data. Secure sum computation is an important application of SMC. In our proposed protocols parties are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

In secure multiparty computation, mutually distrusting users in a network want to collaborate to compute functions of data which is distributed among the users. The users should not learn any additional information about the data of others…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Deepesh Data , Bikash Kumar Dey , Manoj Mishra , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

In this paper, we present an achievable security scheme for an interference channel with arbitrary number of users. In this model, each receiver should be able to decode its intended message while it cannot decode any meaningful information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Parisa Babaheidarian , Somayeh Salimi , Panos Papadimitratos