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Linear real-valued computations over distributed datasets are common in many applications, most notably as part of machine learning inference. In particular, linear computations that are quantized, i.e., where the coefficients are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo

We consider the problem of designing rateless coded private distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ and wants to hire worker nodes to help compute the multiplication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Model Predictive Control (MPC) can efficiently control constrained systems in real-time applications. MPC feedback law for a linear system with linear inequality constraints can be explicitly computed off-line, which results in an off-line…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Andrew Knyazev , Peizhen Zhu , Stefano Di Cairano

Storage allocation affects important performance measures of distributed storage systems. Most previous studies on the storage allocation consider its effect separately either on the success of the data recovery or on the service rate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Moslem Noori , Emina Soljanin , Masoud Ardakani

The standard population protocol model assumes that when two agents interact, each observes the entire state of the other agent. We initiate the study of $\textit{message complexity}$ for population protocols, where the state of an agent is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Talley Amir , James Aspnes , David Doty , Mahsa Eftekhari , Eric Severson

The $K$ User Linear Computation Broadcast (LCBC) problem is comprised of $d$ dimensional data (from $\mathbb{F}_q$), that is fully available to a central server, and $K$ users, who require various linear computations of the data, and have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

This work establishes the fundamental limits of the classical problem of multi-user distributed computing of linearly separable functions. In particular, we consider a distributed computing setting involving $L$ users, each requesting a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

Distributed function computation is the problem, for a networked system of $n$ autonomous agents, to collectively compute the value $f(v_1, \ldots, v_n)$ of some input values, each initially private to one agent in the network. Here, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Patrick Lambein-Monette

In recent years, secure multiparty computation (SMC) advanced from a theoretical technique to a practically applicable technology. Several frameworks were proposed of which some are still actively developed. We perform a first comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Marcel von Maltitz , Georg Carle

Population protocols are a distributed computing model appropriate for describing massive numbers of agents with limited computational power. A population protocol "has an initial leader" if every valid initial configuration contains a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Amanda Belleville , David Doty , David Soloveichik

Motivated by an open problem and a conjecture, this work studies the problem of single server private information retrieval with private coded side information (PIR-PCSI) that was recently introduced by Heidarzadeh et al. The goal of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuxiang Lu , Syed Ali Jafar

In distributed optimization and iterative consensus literature, a standard problem is for $N$ agents to minimize a function $f$ over a subset of Euclidean space, where the cost function is expressed as a sum $\sum f_i$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Nitin Vaidya

Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) exploits the dynamics of quantum ensemble systems for machine learning. Numerical experiments show that quantum systems consisting of 5-7 qubits possess computational capabilities comparable to conventional…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-09-27 Samudra Dasgupta , Kathleen E. Hamilton , Arnab Banerjee

A set of terminals observe correlated data and seek to compute functions of the data using interactive public communication. At the same time, it is required that the value of a private function of the data remains concealed from an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Himanshu Tyagi

We consider questions related to the computation of the capacity of codes that avoid forbidden difference patterns. The maximal number of $n$-bit sequences whose pairwise differences do not contain some given forbidden difference patterns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vincent D. Blondel , Raphael Jungers , Vladimir Protasov

Allocation of (redundant) file chunks throughout a distributed storage system affects important performance metrics such as the probability of file recovery, data download time, or the service rate of the system under a given data access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Pei Peng , Emina Soljanin

We propose and study a new privacy definition, termed Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Privacy. PAC Privacy characterizes the information-theoretic hardness to recover sensitive data given arbitrary information disclosure/leakage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hanshen Xiao , Srinivas Devadas

The assignment problem is an essential problem in many application fields and frequently used to optimize resource usage. The problem is well understood and various efficient algorithms exist to solve the problem. However, it was unclear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Thomas Loruenser , Florian Wohner , Stephan Krenn

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

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) of a single message out of $K$ messages from $N$ replicated and non-colluding databases where a cache-enabled user (retriever) of cache-size $M$ possesses side information in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus