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We consider the problem of revealing/sharing data in an efficient and secure way via a compact representation. The representation should ensure reliable reconstruction of the desired features/attributes while still preserve privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Giuseppe Caire

Inference centers need more data to have a more comprehensive and beneficial learning model, and for this purpose, they need to collect data from data providers. On the other hand, data providers are cautious about delivering their datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Mohammad Ali Jamshidi , Hadi Veisi , Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian , Mohammad Reza Aref

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, improving the communication efficiency by transmitting high-level semantic features. However, reliance on unimodal representations can degrade…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Haoran Chang , Mingzhe Chen , Huaxia Wang , Qianqian Zhang

Semantic communication allows the receiver to know the intention instead of the bit information itself, which is an emerging technique to support real-time human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Yang Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

A novel private communication framework is proposed where privacy is induced by transmitting over a channel instances of linear inverse problems that are identifiable to the legitimate receiver but unidentifiable to an eavesdropper. The gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

We develop a communication-theoretic framework for privacy-aware and resilient decision making in cyber-physical systems under misaligned objectives between the encoder and the decoder. The encoder observes two correlated signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Anju Anand , Emrah Akyol

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

A lossy source coding problem with privacy constraint is studied in which two correlated discrete sources $X$ and $Y$ are compressed into a reconstruction $\hat{X}$ with some prescribed distortion $D$. In addition, a privacy constraint is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Farshid Mokhtarinezhad , Joerg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone

The fundamental limit of Semantic Communications (joint source-channel coding) is established when the transmission needs to be kept covert from an external warden. We derive information-theoretic achievability and matching converse results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

We study private classical communication over quantum multiple-access channels. For an arbitrary number of transmitters, we derive a regularized expression of the capacity region. In the case of degradable channels, we establish a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Remi A. Chou

As semantic communication (SemCom) attracts growing attention as a novel communication paradigm, ensuring the security of transmitted semantic information over open wireless channels has become a critical issue. However, traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shuo Shao , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen , Xuemin , Shen

We study the following one-way asymmetric transmission problem, also a variant of model-based compressed sensing: a resource-limited encoder has to report a small set $S$ from a universe of $N$ items to a more powerful decoder (server). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Alexandr Andoni , Javad Ghaderi , Daniel Hsu , Dan Rubenstein , Omri Weinstein

Semantic communication, as a promising technology, has emerged to break through the Shannon limit, which is envisioned as the key enabler and fundamental paradigm for future 6G networks and applications, e.g., smart healthcare. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Zonghang Li , Zehui Xiong , Shiyao Ma , Dusit Niyato , Yuan Li

Semantic communication is implemented based on shared background knowledge, but the sharing mechanism risks privacy leakage. In this letter, we propose an encrypted semantic communication system (ESCS) for privacy preserving, which combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xinlai Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Feng Yang

We study the fundamental problem of index coding under an additional privacy constraint that requires each receiver to learn nothing more about the collection of messages beyond its demanded messages from the server and what is available to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Varun Narayanan , Jithin Ravi , Vivek K. Mishra , Bikash Kumar Dey , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over broadcast channels under the individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two legitimate receivers in the presence of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin

We study a special case of Willems's two-user multi-access channel with partially cooperating encoders from a security perspective. This model differs from Willems's setup in that only one encoder, Encoder 1, is allowed to conference;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zohaib Hassan Awan , Abdellatif Zaidi , Luc Vandendorpe

An information-theoretic privacy mechanism design is studied, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ which is correlated with the private data $X$. The agent wants to reveal the information to a user, hence, the agent utilizes a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Amirreza Zamani , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund

We consider a private discrete distribution estimation problem with one-bit communication constraint. The privacy constraints are imposed with respect to the local differential privacy and the maximal leakage. The estimation error is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Seung-Hyun Nam , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Si-Hyeon Lee

We consider secure multi-terminal source coding problems in the presence of a public helper. Two main scenarios are studied: 1) source coding with a helper where the coded side information from the helper is eavesdropped by an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-05 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Yeow-Khiang Chia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund , Tsachy Weissman