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IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Private Sum Computation: Trade-Offs Between Communication, Randomness, and Privacy

Rémi A. Chou, Jörg Kliewer, Aylin Yener

Published Jan 22, 2026• 1 citation
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10.1109/tit.2026.3657135

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