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Index coding is concerned with efficient broadcast of a set of messages to receivers in the presence of receiver side information. In this paper, we study the secure index coding problem with security constraints on the receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Yucheng Liu , Parastoo Sadeghi , Neda Aboutorab , Arman Sharififar

This paper asks how much we can gain in terms of bandwidth and user satisfaction, if recommender systems became bandwidth aware and took into account not only the user preferences, but also the fact that they may need to serve these users…

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Considering a group of users, each specifying individual preferences over categorical attributes, the problem of determining a set of objects that are objectively preferable by all users is challenging on two levels. First, we need to…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Nikos Bikakis , Karim Benouaret , Dimitris Sacharidis

We consider the problem of coding over the multi-user Interference Channel (IC). It is well-known that aligning the interfering signals results in improved achievable rates in certain setups involving more than two users. We argue that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 F. Shirani , S. S. Pradhan

I develop a revealed preference framework to test whether an aggregate allocation of indivisible objects satisfies Pareto efficiency and individual rationality (PI) without observing individual preferences. Exploiting the type-based…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-30 Umutcan Salman

We study the trade-offs between strategyproofness and other desiderata, such as efficiency or fairness, that often arise in the design of random ordinal mechanisms. We use approximate strategyproofness to define manipulability, a measure to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Timo Mennle , Sven Seuken

We focus on the following instance of an index coding problem, where a set of receivers are required to decode multiple messages, whilst each knows one of the messages a priori. In particular, here we consider a generalized setting where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Lawrence Ong , Fabian Lim , Chin Keong Ho

We study the problem of continuous object dissemination---given a large number of users and continuously arriving new objects, deliver an object to all users who prefer the object. Many real world applications analyze users' preferences for…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Afroza Sultana , Chengkai Li

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, yet aligning their generations with human preferences remains a critical challenge. Existing approaches to preference modeling often rely on an explicit or implicit reward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhuocheng Gong , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Huishuai Zhang , Dongyan Zhao

Decentralized Pliable Index Coding (DPIC) problem addresses efficient information exchange in distributed systems where clients communicate among themselves without a central server. An important consideration in DPIC is the heterogeneity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anjali Padmanabhan , Danya Arun Bindhu , Nujoom Sageer Karat , Shanuja Sasi

We introduce the blind index coding (BIC) problem, in which a single sender communicates distinct messages to multiple users over a shared channel. Each user has partial knowledge of each message as side information. However, unlike classic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 David T. H. Kao , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

It is desirable in many multi-objective machine learning applications, such as multi-task learning with conflicting objectives and multi-objective reinforcement learning, to find a Pareto solution that can match a given preference of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Qingfu Zhang

The index coding problem aims to optimise broadcast communication by taking advantage of receiver-side information to improve transmission efficiency. In this letter, we explore the application of Construction $\pi_A$ lattices to index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Juliana G. F. Souza , Sueli I. R. Costa

The index coding problem is a fundamental transmission problem arising in content distribution and wireless networks. Traditional approach to solve this problem is to find heuristic/ approximation minimum clique partition solution on an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jalaluddin Qureshi

In this paper we analyse the construction of identification codes. Identification codes are based on the question "Is the message I have just received the one I am interested in?", as opposed to Shannon's transmission, where the receiver is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sencer Derebeyoglu , Christian Deppe , Roberto Ferrara

We introduce a binary embedding framework, called Proximity Preserving Code (PPC), which learns similarity and dissimilarity between data points to create a compact and affinity-preserving binary code. This code can be used to apply fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Inbal Lav , Shai Avidan , Yoram Singer , Yacov Hel-Or

Index coding, or broadcasting with side information, is a network coding problem of most fundamental importance. In this problem, given a directed graph, each vertex represents a user with a need of information, and the neighborhood of each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Abhishek Agarwal , Arya Mazumdar

An index code for broadcast channel with receiver side information is locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand by observing only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha , Hoang Dau

Differential privacy (DP) is the standard for privacy-preserving analysis, and introduces a fundamental trade-off between privacy guarantees and model performance. Selecting the optimal balance is a critical challenge that can be framed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yaohong Yang , Aki Rehn , Sammie Katt , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

It was recently observed in [1], that in index coding, learning the coding matrix used by the server can pose privacy concerns: curious clients can extract information about the requests and side information of other clients. One approach…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mohammed Karmoose , Linqi Song , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli