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We introduce the problem of private computation, comprised of $N$ distributed and non-colluding servers, $K$ independent datasets, and a user who wants to compute a function of the datasets privately, i.e., without revealing which function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

This work addresses the problem of distributed computation of linearly separable functions, where a master node with access to $K$ datasets, employs $N$ servers to compute $L$ user-requested functions, each defined over the datasets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

In this work, we consider private monomial computation (PMC) for replicated noncolluding databases. In PMC, a user wishes to privately retrieve an arbitrary multivariate monomial from a candidate set of monomials in $f$ messages over a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes

We consider the problem of evaluating arbitrary multivariate polynomials over a massive dataset containing multiple inputs, on a distributed computing system with a master node and multiple worker nodes. Generalized Lagrange Coded Computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jinbao Zhu , Hengxuan Tang , Songze Li , Yijia Chang

In this work we compare two recent multiparty computation (MPC) protocols for private summation in terms of performance. Both protocols allow multiple rounds of aggregation from the same set of public keys generated by parties in an initial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Michael Clear , Constantinos Patsakis , Paul Laird

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

We study the scalability of consensus-based distributed optimization algorithms by considering two questions: How many processors should we use for a given problem, and how often should they communicate when communication is not free?…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Sean Lawlor , Michael G. Rabbat

We consider private polynomial computation (PPC) over noncolluding coded databases. In such a setting a user wishes to compute a multivariate polynomial of degree at most $g$ over $f$ variables (or messages) stored in multiple databases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

The topology-aware Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model is proposed and studied recently, which enhances the classical MPC model by the awareness of network topology. The work of Hu et al. on topology-aware MPC model considers only…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hengzhao Ma , Jianzhong Li

This paper considers the problem of single-server Private Computation (PC) in the presence of Side Information (SI). In this problem, there is a server that stores $K$ i.i.d. messages, and a user who has a subset of $M$ uncoded messages or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We introduce Private Collection Matching (PCM) problems, in which a client aims to determine whether a collection of sets owned by a server matches their interests. Existing privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives cannot solve PCM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Kasra EdalatNejad , Mathilde Raynal , Wouter Lueks , Carmela Troncoso

Distributed computing enables scalable machine learning by distributing tasks across multiple nodes, but ensuring privacy in such systems remains a challenge. This paper introduces a novel private coded distributed computing model that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shanuja Sasi , Onur Günlü

The problem of $X$-secure $T$-colluding symmetric Private Polynomial Computation (PPC) from coded storage system with $B$ Byzantine and $U$ unresponsive servers is studied in this paper. Specifically, a dataset consisting of $M$ files is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jinbao Zhu , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Songze Li

We consider a MapReduce-like distributed computing system. We derive a lower bound on the communication cost for any given storage and computation costs. This lower bound matches the achievable bound we proposed recently. As a result, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Qifa Yan , Sheng Yang , Michèle Wigger

In this paper, we present a robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems subject to parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach provides a computationally efficient formulation with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Johannes Köhler , Elisa Andina , Raffaele Soloperto , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Multi-kernel learning (MKL) exhibits well-documented performance in online non-linear function approximation. Federated learning enables a group of learners (called clients) to train an MKL model on the data distributed among clients to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Pouya M. Ghari , Yanning Shen

In a private information retrieval (PIR) system, the user needs to retrieve one of the possible messages from a set of storage servers, but wishes to keep the identity of requested message private from any given server. Existing efforts in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tao Guo , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

We study the problem of computing conjunctive queries over large databases on parallel architectures without shared storage. Using the structure of such a query $q$ and the skew in the data, we study tradeoffs between the number of…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Paul Beame , Paraschos Koutris , Dan Suciu

We investigate fusing several unreliable computational units that perform the same task. We model an unreliable computational outcome as an additive perturbation to its error-free result in terms of its fidelity and cost. We analyze…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Mehmet A. Donmez , Maxim Raginsky , Andrew C. Singer , Lav R. Varshney