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We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

Location-based services often require users to share sensitive locational data, raising privacy concerns due to potential misuse or exploitation by untrusted servers. In response, we present VeLoPIR, a versatile location-based private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Joon Soo Yoo , Taeho Kim , Ji Won Yoon

We consider private information retrieval (PIR) for distributed storage systems (DSSs) with noncolluding nodes where data is stored using a non maximum distance separable (MDS) linear code. It was recently shown that if data is stored using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We consider private information retrieval (PIR) for distributed storage systems (DSSs) with noncolluding nodes where data is stored using a non maximum distance separable (MDS) linear code. It was recently shown that if data is stored using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

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

Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

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

Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun

In the classical private information retrieval (PIR) setup, a user wants to retrieve a file from a database or a distributed storage system (DSS) without revealing the file identity to the servers holding the data. In the quantum PIR (QPIR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Matteo Allaix , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Camilla Hollanti

We consider the problem of designing a Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme on $m$ files replicated on $k$ servers that can collude or, even worse, can return incorrect answers. Our goal is to correctly retrieve a specific message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Stanislav Kruglik , Son Hoang Dau , Han Mao Kiah , Huaxiong Wang

We propose a new capacity-achieving code for the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, and show that it has the minimum message size (being one less than the number of servers) and the minimum upload cost (being roughly linear in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Chao Tian , Hua Sun , Jun Chen

The problem of preserving the privacy of individual entries of a database when responding to linear or nonlinear queries with constrained additive noise is considered. For privacy protection, the response to the query is systematically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Farhad Farokhi , Henrik Sandberg

In a private information retrieval (PIR) system, the user needs to retrieve one of the possible messages from a set of storage servers, but wishes to keep the identity of requested message private from any given server. Existing efforts in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tao Guo , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

We consider the setup of a constrained optimization problem with two agents $E_1$ and $E_2$ who jointly wish to learn the optimal solution set while keeping their feasible sets $\mathcal{P}_1$ and $\mathcal{P}_2$ private from each other.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

A new framework for interference alignment in secure and private information retrieval (PIR) from colluding servers is proposed, generalizing the original cross-subspace alignment (CSA) codes proposed by Jia, Sun, and Jafar. The general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Okko Makkonen , David Karpuk , Camilla Hollanti

We propose three private information retrieval (PIR) protocols for distributed storage systems (DSSs) where data is stored using an arbitrary linear code. The first two protocols, named Protocol 1 and Protocol 2, achieve privacy for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Siddhartha Kumar , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

In a User-Private Information Retrieval (UPIR) scheme, a set of users collaborate to retrieve files from a database without revealing to observers which participant in the scheme requested the file. Protocols have been proposed based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Oliver Gnilke , Marcus Greferath , Camilla Hollanti , Guillermo Nuñez Ponasso , Padraig Ó Catháin , Eric Swartz

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

The private search problem is introduced, where a dataset comprised of $L$ i.i.d. records is replicated across $N$ non-colluding servers, each record takes values uniformly from an alphabet of size $K$, and a user wishes to search for all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed Jafar

Private information retrieval (PIR) is an essential cryptographic protocol for privacy-preserving applications, enabling a client to retrieve a record from a server's database without revealing which record was requested. Single-server PIR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sangpyo Kim , Hyesung Ji , Jongmin Kim , Wonseok Choi , Jaiyoung Park , Jung Ho Ahn