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This paper considers the problem of outsourcing the multiplication of two private and sparse matrices to untrusted workers. Secret sharing schemes can be used to tolerate stragglers and guarantee information-theoretic privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Maximilian Egger , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

Privacy preservation in distributed computations is an important subject as digitization and new technologies enable collection and storage of vast amounts of data, including private data belonging to individuals. To this end, there is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Katrine Tjell , Rafael Wisniewski

Federated Learning (FL) solutions with central Differential Privacy (DP) have seen large improvements in their utility in recent years arising from the matrix mechanism, while FL solutions with distributed (more private) DP have lagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Alexander Bienstock , Ujjwal Kumar , Antigoni Polychroniadou

The problem of secure distributed batch matrix multiplication (SDBMM) studies the communication efficiency of retrieving a sequence of desired matrix products ${\bf AB}$ $=$ $({\bf A}_1{\bf B}_1,$ ${\bf A}_2{\bf B}_2,$ $\cdots,$ ${\bf…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Zhuqing Jia , Syed A. Jafar

We consider the problem of designing a coding scheme that allows both sparsity and privacy for distributed matrix-vector multiplication. Perfect information-theoretic privacy requires encoding the input sparse matrices into matrices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Marvin Xhemrishi , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

We study two problems of private matrix multiplication, over a distributed computing system consisting of a master node, and multiple servers that collectively store a family of public matrices using Maximum-Distance-Separable (MDS) codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jinbao Zhu , Songze Li , Jie Li

Tensor operations, such as matrix multiplication, are central to large-scale machine learning applications. For user-driven tasks these operations can be carried out on a distributed computing platform with a master server at the user side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Malihe Aliasgari , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer

This paper deals with distributed matrix multiplication. Each player owns only one row of both matrices and wishes to learn about one distinct row of the product matrix, without revealing its input to the other players. We first improve on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Pascal Lafourcade , Jean-Baptiste Orfila , Maxime Puys

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. In this paper, we answer the following question: Is it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein , David Karpuk

To preserve data privacy, multi-party computation (MPC) enables executing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms on private data. However, MPC frameworks do not include optimized operations on sparse data. This absence makes them unsuitable for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter , Jan Ramon

As one of the most important basic operations, matrix multiplication computation (MMC) has varieties of applications in the scientific and engineering community such as linear regression, k-nearest neighbor classification and biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chun Liu , Xuexian Hu , Xiaofeng Chen , Jianghong Wei , Wenfen Liu

In this study, we propose a two-party computation protocol for approximate matrix multiplication of fixed-point numbers. The proposed protocol is provably secure under standard lattice-based cryptographic assumptions and enables matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Kaoru Teranishi

In this paper, we address the problem of secure distributed computation in scenarios where user data is not uniformly distributed, extending existing frameworks that assume uniformity, an assumption that is challenging to enforce in data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Saar Tarnopolsky , Zirui , Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Alejandro Cohen

This work investigates the design of sparse secret sharing schemes that encode a sparse private matrix into sparse shares. This investigation is motivated by distributed computing, where the multiplication of sparse and private matrices is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Rawad Bitar , Maximilian Egger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Marvin Xhemrishi

We introduce a variation of coded computation that ensures data security and master's privacy against workers, which is referred to as private secure coded computation. In private secure coded computation, the master needs to compute a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Minchul Kim , Jungwoo Lee

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

In secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) the multiplication $\mathbf{A}\mathbf{B}$ from two private matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ is outsourced by a user to $N$ distributed servers. In $\ell$-SDMM, the goal is to a design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Jaber Kakar , Anton Khristoforov , Seyedhamed Ebadifar , Aydin Sezgin

Computationally efficient matrix multiplication is a fundamental requirement in various fields, including and particularly in data analytics. To do so, the computation task of a large-scale matrix multiplication is typically outsourced to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jaber Kakar , Seyedhamed Ebadifar , Aydin Sezgin

Matrix multiplication is one of the key operations in various engineering applications. Outsourcing large-scale matrix multiplication tasks to multiple distributed servers or cloud is desirable to speed up computation. However, security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon