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With gradient coding, a user node can efficiently aggregate gradients from server nodes processing local datasets, achieving low communication costs and maintaining resilience against straggling servers. This paper considers a secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yang Zhou , Wenbo Huang , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu

Secure aggregation, which is a core component of federated learning, aggregates locally trained models from distributed users at a central server. The ``secure'' nature of such aggregation consists of the fact that no information about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Kai Wan , Xin Yao , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

The secure summation problem is considered, where $K$ users, each holds an input, wish to compute the sum of their inputs at a server securely, i.e., without revealing any information beyond the sum even if the server may collude with any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Yizhou Zhao , Hua Sun

The growing privacy concerns in distributed learning have led to the widespread adoption of secure aggregation techniques in distributed machine learning systems, such as federated learning. Motivated by a coded gradient aggregation problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Qinyi Lu , Jiale Cheng , Wei Kang , Nan Liu

This paper considers a multi-message secure aggregation with privacy problem, in which a server aims to compute $\sf K_c\geq 1$ linear combinations of local inputs from $\sf K$ distributed users. The problem addresses two tasks: (1)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chenyi Sun , Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

We study the hierarchical secure aggregation problem with groupwise keys. The problem consists of an aggregation server, $U$ relays, and $UV$ users, where each relay serves $V$ disjoint users, and each subset of $G$ users shares an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Minyang Lu , Zhou Li , Haiqiang Chen , Min Xie

This paper investigates the information-theoretic decentralized secure aggregation (DSA) problem under practical groupwise secret keys and collusion resilience. In DSA, $K$ users are interconnected through error-free broadcast channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Haiqiang Chen , Jihao Fan , Giuseppe Caire

A major hurdle in machine learning is scalability to massive datasets. One approach to overcoming this is to distribute the computational tasks among several workers. \textit{Gradient coding} has been recently proposed in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Neophytos Charalambides , Hessam Mahdavifar , Alfred O. Hero

Gradient coding is a distributed computing technique for computing gradient vectors over large datasets by outsourcing partial computations to multiple workers, typically connected directly to the server. In this work, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ali Gholami , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

This paper introduces a privacy-preserving distributed learning framework via private-key homomorphic encryption. Thanks to the randomness of the quantization of gradients, our learning with error (LWE) based encryption can eliminate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guangfeng Yan , Shanxiang Lyu , Hanxu Hou , Zhiyong Zheng , Linqi Song

Gradient coding schemes effectively mitigate full stragglers in distributed learning by introducing identical redundancy in coded local partial derivatives corresponding to all model parameters. However, they are no longer effective for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Qi Wang , Ying Cui , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Gradient descent algorithms are widely used in machine learning. In order to deal with huge volume of data, we consider the implementation of gradient descent algorithms in a distributed computing setting where multiple workers compute the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Haozhao Wang , Song Guo , Bin Tang , Ruixuan Li , Chengjie Li

This paper introduces a completely new approach to encryption based on group theoretic quantum framework. Quantum cryptography has essentially focused only on key distribution and proceeded with classical encryption algorithm with the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 N. Srinivasan , C. Sanjeevakumar , L. Sudarsan , M. Kasi Rajan , R. Venkatesh

We consider the problem of distributedly computing a general class of functions, referred to as gradient-type computation, while maintaining the privacy of the input dataset. Gradient-type computation evaluates the sum of some `partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper considers the secure aggregation problem for federated learning under an information theoretic cryptographic formulation, where distributed training nodes (referred to as users) train models based on their own local data and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Tiebin Mi , Giuseppe Caire

This paper formulates a distributed computation problem, where a master asks $N$ distributed workers to compute a linearly separable function. The task function can be expressed as $K_c$ linear combinations of $K$ messages, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Gradient inversion attacks pose significant privacy threats to distributed training frameworks such as federated learning, enabling malicious parties to reconstruct sensitive local training data from gradient communications between clients…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jiajun Gu , Yuhang Yao , Shuaiqi Wang , Carlee Joe-Wong

In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhao Huang , Kai Liang , Yuanming Shi , Songze Li , Youlong Wu

With the vigorous development of artificial intelligence technology, various engineering technology applications have been implemented one after another. The gradient descent method plays an important role in solving various optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Jinhuan Duan , Xianxian Li , Shiqi Gao , Jinyan Wang , Zili Zhong

In many distributed learning setups such as federated learning (FL), client nodes at the edge use individually collected data to compute local gradients and send them to a central master server. The master server then aggregates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kai Liang , Songze Li , Ming Ding , Youlong Wu
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