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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

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows a client to retrieve an entry $\text{DB}[i]$ from a public database $\text{DB}$ held by one or more servers, without revealing the queried index $i$. Traditional PIR schemes achieve sublinear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Elian Morel

Double blind $T$-private information retrieval (DB-TPIR) enables two users, each of whom specifies an index ($\theta_1, \theta_2$, resp.), to efficiently retrieve a message $W(\theta_1,\theta_2)$ labeled by the two indices, from a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuxiang Lu , Zhuqing Jia , Syed A. Jafar

We design new minimal-subpacketization schemes for information-theoretic private information retrieval on graph-based replicated databases. In graph-based replication, the system consists of $K$ files replicated across $N$ servers according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Vayur Shanbhag , Prasad Krishnan

Secure computation protocols combine inputs from involved parties to generate an output while keeping their inputs private. Private Set Intersection (PSI) is a secure computation protocol that allows two parties, who each hold a set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yuvaraj Athur Raghuvir , Senthil Govindarajan , Sanjeevi Vijayakumar , Pradeep Yadlapalli , Fabio Di Troia

This work investigates the problem of cache-aided content Secure and demand Private Linear Function Retrieval (SP-LFR), where three constraints are imposed on the system:(a) each user is interested in retrieving an arbitrary linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qifa Yan , Daniela Tuninetti

We consider the problem of designing private information retrieval (PIR) schemes on data of $m$ files replicated on $n$ servers that can possibly collude. We focus on devising robust PIR schemes that can tolerate stragglers, i.e., slow or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Rawad Bitar , Salim El Rouayheb

A communication-efficient protocol is introduced over a many-to-one quantum network for Q-E-B-MDS-X-TPIR, i.e., quantum private information retrieval with MDS-$X$-secure storage and $T$-private queries. The protocol is resilient to any set…

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

It is known that interference alignment (IA) plays an important role in improving the degree of freedom (DoF) of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) systems. However, most of the traditional IA schemes suffer from the high computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jingfu Li , Wenjiang Feng , F. Richard Yu , Weiheng Jiang

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 $S$ possesses side information in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yi-Peng Wei , Sennur Ulukus

Low degree Reed-Muller codes are known to satisfy local decoding properties which find applications in private information retrieval (PIR) protocols, for instance. However, their practical instantiation encounters a first barrier due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Julien Lavauzelle , Jade Nardi

Regenerating codes are a class of recently developed codes for distributed storage that, like Reed-Solomon codes, permit data recovery from any arbitrary k of n nodes. However regenerating codes possess in addition, the ability to repair a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

In this paper, we propose a framework for privacy-preserving approximate near neighbor search via stochastic sparsifying encoding. The core of the framework relies on sparse coding with ambiguation (SCA) mechanism that introduces the notion…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Behrooz Razeghi , Sohrab Ferdowsi , Dimche Kostadinov , Flavio. P. Calmon , Slava Voloshynovskiy

We provide here a framework to analyze the phase transition phenomenon of slice inverse regression (SIR), a supervised dimension reduction technique introduced by \cite{Li:1991}. Under mild conditions, the asymptotic ratio $\rho= \lim p/n$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Qian Lin , Zhigen Zhao , Jun S. Liu

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases when the user is equipped with a cache that holds an uncoded fraction $r$ from each of the $K$ stored messages in the databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

For the K user, single input single output (SISO), frequency selective interference channel, a new low complexity transmit beamforming design that improves the achievable sum rate is presented. Jointly employing the interference alignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Douglas Kim , Murat Torlak

This work considers the problem of privately outsourcing the computation of a matrix product over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ to $N$ helper servers. These servers are considered to be honest but curious, i.e., they behave according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jie Li , Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti , Oliver Gnilke

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem from decentralized uncoded caching databases. There are two phases in our problem setting, a caching phase, and a retrieval phase. In the caching phase, a data center containing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yi-Peng Wei , Batuhan Arasli , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

We consider constructing capacity-achieving linear codes with minimum message size for private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding databases, where each message is coded using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, such that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Hua Sun , Tie Liu

We show that the single-server computational PIR protocol proposed by Holzbaur, Hollanti and Wachter-Zeh in 2020 is not private, in the sense that the server can recover in polynomial time the index of the desired file with very high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sarah Bordage , Julien Lavauzelle