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Quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) is a protocol in which a user retrieves one of multiple files from $\mathsf{n}$ non-communicating servers by downloading quantum systems without revealing which file is retrieved. As variants of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi

In information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR), a client wants to retrieve one desired file out of $M$ files, stored across $N$ servers, while keeping the index of the desired file private from each $T$-sized subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chandan Anand , Jayesh Seshadri , Prasad Krishnan , Gowtham R. Kurri

The software-based implementation of differential privacy mechanisms has been shown to be neither friendly for lightweight devices nor secure against side-channel attacks. In this work, we aim to develop a hardware-based technique to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jianqing Liu , Na Gong , Hritom Das

In Pliable Private Information Retrieval (PPIR) with a single server, messages are partitioned into $\Gamma$ non-overlapping classes. The user wants to retrieve a message from its desired class without revealing the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Megha Rayer , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (W-PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a desired message from $N$ non-colluding servers in a way that the privacy leakage regarding the desired message's identity is less than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chengyuan Qian , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Tie Liu

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem a user wishes to retrieve, as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while revealing nothing about the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

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

Experiment design has a rich history dating back over a century and has found many critical applications across various fields since then. The use and collection of users' data in experiments often involve sensitive personal information, so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Wei-Ning Chen , Graham Cormode , Akash Bharadwaj , Peter Romov , Ayfer Özgür

We study the problem of leaky private information retrieval (L-PIR), where the amount of privacy leakage is measured by the pure differential privacy parameter, referred to as the leakage ratio exponent. Unlike the previous L-PIR scheme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Wenyuan Zhao , Yu-Shin Huang , Chao Tian , Alex Sprintson

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

We consider information-theoretical private information retrieval (PIR) from a coded database with colluding servers. We target, for the first time, locally repairable storage codes (LRCs). We consider any number of local groups $ g $,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

In the recent decades, the advance of information technology and abundant personal data facilitate the application of algorithmic personalized pricing. However, this leads to the growing concern of potential violation of privacy due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-13 Xi Chen , Sentao Miao , Yining Wang

In many science and engineering settings, system dynamics are characterized by governing PDEs, and a major challenge is to solve inverse problems (IPs) where unknown PDE parameters are inferred based on observational data gathered under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Apivich Hemachandra , Gregory Kang Ruey Lau , See-Kiong Ng , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Distribution grid agents are obliged to exchange and disclose their states explicitly to neighboring regions to enable distributed optimal power flow dispatch. However, the states contain sensitive information of individual agents, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Tong Wu , Changhong Zhao , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Specialized worker profiles of crowdsourcing platforms may contain a large amount of identifying and possibly sensitive personal information (e.g., personal preferences, skills, available slots, available devices) raising strong privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Joris Duguépéroux , Tristan Allard

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer network for storing data in a distributed file system, hosting over 190,000 peers spanning 152 countries. Despite its prominence, the privacy properties that IPFS offers to peers are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Miti Mazmudar , Shannon Veitch , Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi

This paper presents new solutions for Private Information Retrieval (PIR) with side information. This problem is motivated by PIR settings in which a client has side information about the data held by the servers and would like to leverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a widely adopted privacy-protection model in the Internet of Things (IoT) due to its lightweight, decentralized, and scalable nature. However, it is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, and existing defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Lisha Shuai , Jiuling Dong , Nan Zhang , Shaofeng Tan , Haokun Zhang , Zilong Song , Gaoya Dong , Xiaolong Yang

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

Consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a single message from $N$ non-communicating and non-colluding databases (servers). All servers store the same set of $M$ messages and they respond…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen