Publications

Preprints / Under Review

• 1. A. de Sá Delgade Neto, M. Egger, M. Bakshi and R. Bitar, Communication-Efficient Byzantine-Resilient Federated Zero-Order Optimization, preprint, arXiv:2406.14362, 2024.

  2. Y. Xia, C. Hofmeister, M. Egger and R. Bitar, LoByITFL: Low Communication Secure and Private Federated Learning, preprint, arXiv:2405.19217, 2024.

  3. Y. Xia, C. Hofmeister, M. Egger and R. Bitar, Byzantine-Resilient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning Without Privacy Compromises, submitted to IEEE ITW, 2024.

  4. C. Hofmeister, L. Maßny, E. Yaakobi and R. Bitar, Byzantine-Resilient Gradient Coding through Local Gradient Computations, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024.

  5. Z. Deng, V. Ramkumar, R. Bitar and N. Raviv, Private Inference in Quantized Models, preprint, arXiv:2311.13686, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023.

  6. M. Egger, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh and D. Gündüz, Efficient Distributed Machine Learning via Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits, preprint, arXiv:2202.08302, 2023.

  7. S. Kas Hanna, R. Bitar, P. Parag, V. Dasari and S. El Rouayheb, Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Descent for Fast and Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning, preprint, arXiv:2208.03134, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2023.

  8. S. Kas Hanna and R. Bitar, Codes for Detecting Deletions and Insertions in Concatenated Strings, preprint, arXiv:2105.00212, 2021.

  9. R. Bitar and S. Jaggi, Communication Efficient Secret Sharing in the Presence of Malicious Adversary, preprint, arXiv:2002.03374, 2020.

  10. Y. Keshtkarjahromi, R. Bitar, V. Dasari, S. El Rouayheb, and H. Seferoglu, Secure Coded Cooperative Computation at the Heterogeneous Edge against Byzantine Attacks, preprint, arXiv:1908.05385, 2020.

  11. E. Klarlund, R. Bitar and S. El Rouayheb, Search Efficient Blockchain-Based Immutable Logging And Querying, submitted to BMC Medical Genomics, 2018.

Journals

• 1. R. Bitar, M. Egger, A. Wachter-Zeh and M. Xhemrishi, Sparsity and Privacy in Secret Sharing: A Fundamental Trade-Off, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 19, April 2024. (arXiv:2308.06413)

  2. A. Lenz, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh and E. Yaakobi, Function-Correcting Codes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,  Vol. 69, No. 9, September 2023. (arXiv:2102.03094)

  3. C. Hofmeister, R. Bitar, M. Xhemrishi and A. Wachter-Zeh, Secure Private and Adaptive Matrix Multiplication Beyond the Singleton Bound, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT), Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2022. (arXiv:2108.05742)

  4. L. Welter, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh and E. Yaakobi, Multiple Criss-Cross Deletion and Insertion Correcting Codes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 68, No. 6, June, 2022. (arXiv:2102.02727)

  5. R. Bitar, M. Xhemrishi and A. Wachter-Zeh, Adaptive Private Distributed Matrix Multiplication, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 68, No. 4, April 2022. (arXiv:2004.12925)

  6. S. Li, R. Bitar, S. Jaggi and Y. Zhang, Network Coding with Myopic Adversaries, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT), Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2021. (arXiv:2102.09885)

  7. R. Bitar, L. Welter, I. Smagloy, A. Wachter-Zeh and E. Yaakobi, Criss-Cross Insertion and Deletion Correcting Codes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol.67, No.12, December 2021. (arXiv:2004.14740)

  8. R. Bitar, Y. Xing, Y. Keshtkarjahromi, V. Dasari, S. El Rouayheb, and H. Seferoglu, Private and Rateless Adaptive Coded Computation at the Edge, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol.1, January 2021. (arXiv:1909.12611)

  9. R. Bitar, M. Wootters and S. El Rouayheb, Stochastic Gradient Coding for Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Learning, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory,, Vol.1, No. 1, May 2020. (arXiv:1905.05383)

  10. R. Bitar, P. Parag and S. El Rouayheb, Minimizing Latency for Secure Coded Computing Using Secret Sharing via Staircase Codes, IEEE Transactions on Communication, Vol. 68, No. 8, August 2020. (arXiv:1802.02640)

  11. R. Bitar and S. El Rouayheb, Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing with Optimal Communication and Read Overheads, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 2, February 2018. (arXiv:1512.02990)

Conferences

2024

1. T. Janz, H. Liu, R. Bitar and F. R. Kschischang, Secure Storage using Maximally Recoverable Locally Repairable Codes, accepted in IEEE ISIT 2024.

2. S. Jain, L. Maßny, C. Hofmeister, E. Yaakobi and R. Bitar, Interactive Byzantine-Resilient Gradient Coding for General Data Assignments, accepted in IEEE ISIT 2024.

3. C. Hofmeister, A. Gruica, D. Hanania, R. Bitar and E. Yaakobi, Achieving DNA Labeling Capacity with Minimum Labels through Extremal de Bruijn Subgraphs, accepted in IEEE ISIT 2024.

4. M. Egger, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh, D. Gündüz and N. Weinberger, Capacity-Maximizing Input Symbol Selection for Discrete Memoryless Channels, accepted in IEEE ISIT, 2024.

2023

• 1. C. Hofmeister, L. Maßny, E. Yaakobi and R. Bitar, Trading Communication for Computation in Byzantine-Resilient Gradient Coding, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023.

  2. M. Egger, S. Kas Hanna and R. Bitar, Fast and Straggler-Tolerant Distributed SGD with Reduced Computation Load, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023.

  3. M. Egger, C. Hofmeister, A. Wachter-Zeh and R. Bitar, Private Aggregation in Wireless Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Clusters, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023.

  4. M. Egger, M. Xhemrishi, A. Wachter-Zeh and R. Bitar, Sparse and Private Distributed Matrix Multiplication with Straggler Tolerance, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023.

  5. M. Egger, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh, D. Gündüz and N. Weinberger, Maximal-Capacity Discrete Memoryless Channel Identification, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2023.

2022

• 6. M. Xhemrishi, M. Egger and R. Bitar, Efficient Private Storage of Sparse Machine Learning Data, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), invited paper, 2022.

  7. N. Raviv, R.Bitar and E. Yaakobi, Information Theoretic Private Inference in Quantized Models, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022.

  8. E. Stylianou, L. Welter, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh and E. Yaakobi, Equivalence of Insertion/Deletion Correcting Codes for d-dimensional Arrays, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022.

  9. M. Egger, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh and D. Gündüz, Efficient Distributed Machine Learning via Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022.

  10. M. Xhemrishi, R. Bitar and A. Wachter-Zeh, Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication with Sparsity and Privacy Guarantees, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022.

  11. C. Hofmeister, R. Bitar, M. Xhemrishi and A. Wachter-Zeh, Secure Private and Adaptive Matrix Multiplication Beyond the Singleton Bound, Twelfth International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC), March 2022.

2021

• 12. S. Kas Hanna and R. Bitar, Codes for Detecting Deletions and Insertions in Concatenated Strings, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021.

  13. A. Lenz, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh and E. Yaakobi, Function-Correcting Codes, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021.

  14. L. Welter, R. Bitar, A. Wachter-Zeh and E. Yaakobi, Multiple Criss-Cross Deletion-Correcting Codes, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021.

  15. S. Li, R. Bitar, S. Jaggi and Y. Zhang, Network Coding with Myopic Adversaries, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021.

  16. R. Bitar, S. Kas Hanna, N. Polyanskii and I. Vorobyev, Optimal Codes Correcting Localized Deletions, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021.

2020

• 17. R. Bitar, M. Xhemrishi and A. Wachter-Zeh, Fountain Codes for Private Distributed Matrix-Matrix Multiplication, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), 2020.

  18. R. Bitar and S. Jaggi, Communication Efficient Secret Sharing in the Presence of Malicious Adversary, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020.

  19. S. Kas Hanna, R. Bitar, P. Parag, V. Dasari and S. El Rouayheb, Adaptive Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent for Minimizing Delay in the Presence of Stragglers, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, 2020.

  20. R. Bitar, I. Smagloy, L. Welter, A. Wachter-Zeh and E. Yaakobi, Criss-Cross Deletion Correcting Codes, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), 2020.

2015 - 2019

• 21. Y. Keshtkarjahromi, R. Bitar, V. Dasari, S. El Rouayheb, and H. Seferoglu, Secure Coded Cooperative Computation at the Heterogeneous Edge against Byzantine Attacks, IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, 2019

  22. R. Bitar, M. Wootters and S. El Rouayheb, Stochastic Gradient Coding for Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Learning, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2019.

  23. R. Bitar, Y. Xing, Y. Keshtkarjahromi, V. Dasari, S. El Rouayheb, and H. Seferoglu, PRAC: Private and Rateless Adaptive Coded Computation at the Edge, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, Baltimore, 2019.

  24. R. Bitar and S. El Rouayheb, Staircase-PIR: Universally Robust Private Information Retrieval, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Guangzhou, 2018.

  25. R. Bitar, P. Parag and S. El Rouayheb, Minimizing Latency for Secure Distributed Computing, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, 2017.

  26. R. Bitar and S. El Rouayheb, Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing with Optimal Communication and Read Overheads, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, 2016.

  27. R. Bitar and S. El Rouayheb, Securing data against Limited-Knowledge Adversaries in Distributed Storage Systems, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, 2015.

PhD Thesis

• • R. Bitar, Codes for Private Distributed Computation with Applications to Machine Learning, Rutgers University school of graduate studies electronic theses and dissertations, 2020.