Differentially Private Secure Multiplication: Beyond Two Multiplicands

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Main Authors: Hu, Haoyang, Cadambe, Viveck R.
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Published: 2026
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author Hu, Haoyang
Cadambe, Viveck R.
author_facet Hu, Haoyang
Cadambe, Viveck R.
contents We study the problem of differentially private (DP) secure multiplication in distributed computing systems, focusing on regimes where perfect privacy and perfect accuracy cannot be simultaneously achieved. Specifically, N nodes collaboratively compute the product of M private inputs while guaranteeing epsilon-DP against any collusion of up to T nodes. Prior work has characterized the fundamental privacy-accuracy trade-off for the multiplication of two multiplicands. In this paper, we extend these results to the more general setting of computing the product of an arbitrary number M of multiplicands. We propose a secure multiplication framework based on carefully designed encoding polynomials combined with layered noise injection. The proposed construction generalizes existing schemes and enables the systematic cancellation of lower-order noise terms, leading to improved estimation accuracy. We explore two regimes: (M-1)T+1 <= N <= MT and N = T+1. For (M-1)T+1 <= N <= MT, we characterize the optimal privacy--accuracy trade-off. When N = T+1, we derive nontrivial achievability and converse bounds that are asymptotically tight in the high-privacy regime.
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spellingShingle Differentially Private Secure Multiplication: Beyond Two Multiplicands
Hu, Haoyang
Cadambe, Viveck R.
Information Theory
We study the problem of differentially private (DP) secure multiplication in distributed computing systems, focusing on regimes where perfect privacy and perfect accuracy cannot be simultaneously achieved. Specifically, N nodes collaboratively compute the product of M private inputs while guaranteeing epsilon-DP against any collusion of up to T nodes. Prior work has characterized the fundamental privacy-accuracy trade-off for the multiplication of two multiplicands. In this paper, we extend these results to the more general setting of computing the product of an arbitrary number M of multiplicands. We propose a secure multiplication framework based on carefully designed encoding polynomials combined with layered noise injection. The proposed construction generalizes existing schemes and enables the systematic cancellation of lower-order noise terms, leading to improved estimation accuracy. We explore two regimes: (M-1)T+1 <= N <= MT and N = T+1. For (M-1)T+1 <= N <= MT, we characterize the optimal privacy--accuracy trade-off. When N = T+1, we derive nontrivial achievability and converse bounds that are asymptotically tight in the high-privacy regime.
title Differentially Private Secure Multiplication: Beyond Two Multiplicands
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08944