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In the traditional distributed machine learning scenario, the user's private data is transmitted between clients and a central server, which results in significant potential privacy risks. In order to balance the issues of data privacy and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zihao Zhao , Yuzhu Mao , Yang Liu , Linqi Song , Ye Ouyang , Xinlei Chen , Wenbo Ding

Statistical heterogeneity across clients in a Federated Learning (FL) system increases the algorithm convergence time and reduces the generalization performance, resulting in a large communication overhead in return for a poor model. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mohamad Mestoukirdi , Matteo Zecchin , David Gesbert , Qianrui Li

Model predictive control (MPC) is pervasive in research and industry. However, designing the cost function and the constraints of the MPC to maximize closed-loop performance remains an open problem. To achieve optimal tuning, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

We introduce the \emph{Private Contiguous-Block Retrieval (PCBR)} problem, where a user retrieves a block of $D$ messages with contiguous indices from $K$ replicated messages stored across $N$ non-colluding servers, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Large matrix multiplications are central to large-scale machine learning applications. These operations are often carried out on a distributed computing platform with a master server and multiple workers in the cloud operating in parallel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Malihe Aliasgari , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer

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

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed machine learning (ML) that enables collaborative model training across clients without exposing raw data, thereby preserving user privacy and reducing communication costs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mingwei Hong , Zheng Lin , Zehang Lin , Lin Li , Miao Yang , Xia Du , Zihan Fang , Zhaolu Kang , Dianxin Luan , Shunzhi Zhu

In this paper, we study the multi-server setting of the \emph{Private Information Retrieval with Coded Side Information (PIR-CSI)} problem. In this problem, there are $K$ messages replicated across $N$ servers, and there is a user who…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

In order to perform machine learning among multiple parties while protecting the privacy of raw data, privacy-preserving machine learning based on secure multi-party computation (MPL for short) has been a hot spot in recent. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Lushan Song , Jiaxuan Wang , Zhexuan Wang , Xinyu Tu , Guopeng Lin , Wenqiang Ruan , Haoqi Wu , Weili Han

Private information retrieval scheme for coded data storage is considered in this paper. We focus on the case where the size of each data record is large and hence only the download cost (but not the upload cost for transmitting retrieval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Terence H. Chan , Siu-Wai Ho , Hirosuke Yamamoto

Coded caching has the potential to greatly reduce network traffic by leveraging the cheap and abundant storage available in end-user devices so as to create multicast opportunities in the delivery phase. In the seminal work by Maddah-Ali…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

In Federated Learning (FL) paradigm, a parameter server (PS) concurrently communicates with distributed participating clients for model collection, update aggregation, and model distribution over multiple rounds, without touching private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xiaoxin Su , Yipeng Zhou , Laizhong Cui , John C. S. Lui , Jiangchuan Liu

Control of nonlinear systems with high levels of uncertainty is practically relevant and theoretically challenging. This paper presents a numerical investigation of an adaptive nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) technique that relies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Rami Abdulelah Alhazmi , Achinth Suresh Babu , Syed Aseem Ul Islam , Dennis S. Bernstein

In the modern era of computing, machine learning tools have demonstrated their potential in vital sectors, such as healthcare and finance, to derive proper inferences. The sensitive and confidential nature of the data in such sectors raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Ajith Suresh

Consumer-electronics systems are becoming increasingly complex as the number of integrated applications is growing. Some of these applications have real-time requirements, while other non-real-time applications only require good average…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Anna Minaeva , Premysl Sucha , Benny Akesson , Zdenek Hanzalek

This paper proposes a cascaded multiwire-power line communication (PLC)/multiple-visible light communication (VLC) system. This hybrid architecture offers low installation cost, enhanced performance, practical feasibility, and a wide range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hugerles S. Silva , Higo T. P. Silva , Paulo V. B. Tomé , Felipe A. P. Figueiredo , Edson P. da Silva , Rausley A. A. de Souza

This paper proposes a Clustered Unit Commitment (CUC) formulation to accurately model flexibility requirements such as ramping, reserve, and startup/shutdown constraints. The CUC is commonly applied in large and long-term planning models to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-21 German Morales-Espana , Diego A. Tejada-Arango

This paper studies the master-worker distributed linearly separable computation problem, where the considered computation task, referred to as linearly separable function, is a typical linear transform model widely used in cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenbo Huang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire