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Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables computation over encrypted data, offering strong privacy guarantees for untrusted computing environments. Practical adoption remains limited by high computational complexity, large ciphertext sizes, and…

A 2-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the $i$th bit of an $n$-bit database replicated among two servers (which do not communicate) while not revealing any information about $i$ to either server. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zeev Dvir , Sivakanth Gopi

The performance of today's in-memory indexes is bottlenecked by the memory latency/bandwidth wall. Processing-in-memory (PIM) is an emerging approach that potentially mitigates this bottleneck, by enabling low-latency memory access whose…

Multi-message private information retrieval (MPIR) is an interesting variation of PIR which allows a user to download multiple messages from the database without revealing the identity of the desired messages. Obviously, the user can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Chatdanai Dorkson , Siaw-Lynn Ng

Digital processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures mitigate the memory wall problem by facilitating parallel bitwise operations directly within the memory. Recent works have demonstrated their algorithmic potential for accelerating…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

We introduce baseSPIDER and SPIDER, private information retrieval (PIR) schemes that embody two technical advancements. The baseSPIDER protocol operates with a single server and a stateful client that performs pre-processing and stores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ofir Dvir , Kali Hale , Javin Zipkin , Divyakant Agrawal , Dahlia Malkhi

In a typical formulation of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a single user wishes to retrieve one out of $ K$ files from $N$ servers without revealing the demanded file index to any server. This paper formulates an extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Continual demand for memory bandwidth has made it worthwhile for memory vendors to reassess processing in memory (PIM), which enables higher bandwidth by placing compute units in/near-memory. As such, memory vendors have recently proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Johnathan Alsop , Shaizeen Aga , Mohamed Ibrahim , Mahzabeen Islam , Andrew Mccrabb , Nuwan Jayasena

Processing large-scale graph datasets is computationally intensive and time-consuming. Processor-centric CPU and GPU architectures, commonly used for graph applications, often face bottlenecks caused by extensive data movement between the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Marzieh Barkhordar , Alireza Tabatabaeian , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Christina Giannoula , Juan Gomez Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Onur Mutlu , Alaa R. Alameldeen

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a mechanism for efficiently downloading messages while keeping the index of the desired message secret from the servers. PIR schemes have been extended to various scenarios with adversarial servers:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Atsushi Miki , Toshiyasu Matsushima

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve a file from a database without revealing any information on the file being requested. As of now, PIR schemes have been proposed for several kinds of storage systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Julien Lavauzelle , Razane Tajeddine , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental problem in the broader fields of security and privacy. In recent years, the problem has garnered significant attention from the research community, leading to achievability schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

The widespread integration of embedded systems across various industries has facilitated seamless connectivity among devices and bolstered computational capabilities. Despite their extensive applications, embedded systems encounter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sathwika Bavikadi , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

The problem of private information retrieval gets renewed attentions in recent years due to its information-theoretic reformulation and applications in distributed storage systems. PIR capacity is the maximal number of bits privately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures bring computation closer to data, reducing the processor-memory transfer bottleneck in traditional processor-centric designs. Novel hardware solutions, such as UPMEM's in-memory processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peterson Yuhala , Mpoki Mwaisela , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

We study the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) in the presence of prior side information. The problem setup includes a database of $K$ independent messages possibly replicated on several servers, and a user that needs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Swanand Kadhe , Brenden Garcia , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

Processing-In-Memory (PIM) is a novel approach that augments existing DRAM memory chips with lightweight logic. By allowing to offload computations to the PIM system, this architecture allows for circumventing the data-bottleneck problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 André Lopes , Daniel Castro , Paolo Romano

Computing on encrypted data is a promising approach to reduce data security and privacy risks, with homomorphic encryption serving as a facilitator in achieving this goal. In this work, we accelerate homomorphic operations using the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Harshita Gupta , Mayank Kabra , Juan Gómez-Luna , Konstantinos Kanellopoulos , Onur Mutlu

Data movement between memory and processors is a major bottleneck in modern computing systems. The processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigm aims to alleviate this bottleneck by performing computation inside memory chips. Real PIM hardware (e.g.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jinfan Chen , Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Yuxin Guo , Onur Mutlu

Suppose there are $N$ distributed databases each storing a full set of $M$ independent files. A user wants to retrieve $r$ out of the $M$ files without revealing the identity of the $r$ files. When $r=1$ it is the classic problem of private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu