Paul W. Cuff – Research Output

Journal Publications

Exact Exponent for Soft Covering

S. Yagli, P. Cuff  —  submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, September, 2018.

Key and Message Semantic-Security over State-Dependent Channels

A. Bunin, Z. Goldfeld, H. Permuter, S. Shamai, P. Cuff, P. Piantanida  —  accepted to IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, June, 2018.

Smoothing Brascamp-Lieb Inequalities and Strong Converses of Coding Theorems

J. Liu, T. Courtade, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, April, 2017.

Wiretap Channels with Random States Non-Causally Available at the Encoder

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, August, 2016.

Puzzles in Memory of Solomon Golomb

J. Buhler, P. Cuff, A. Hales, R. Stong  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 64(4), April, 2018.

Common Randomness and Key Generation with Limited Interaction

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 63(11):7358-81, November, 2017.

E-gamma Resolvability

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 63(5):2629-58, May, 2017.

An EEG Acquisition and Biomarker-Extraction System Using Low-Noise-Amplifier and Compressive-Sensing Circuits Based on Flexible, Thin-Film Electronics

T. Moy, L. Huang, W. Rieutort-Louis, C. Wu, P. Cuff, S. Wagner, J. Sturm, N. Verma  —  IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, 52(1):309-21, January, 2017.

Strong Secrecy for Cooperative Broadcast Channels

Z. Goldfeld, G. Kramer, H. Permuter, P. Cuff  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 63(1):469-95, January, 2017.

Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels with Type Constrained States

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 62(12):7216-44, December, 2016.

Secure Cascade Channel Synthesis

S. Satpathy, P. Cuff  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 62(11):6081-94, November, 2016.

Semantic-Security Capacity for Wiretap Channels of Type II

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 62(7):3863-79, July, 2016.

The Henchman Problem: Measuring Secrecy by the Minimum Distortion in a List

C. Schieler, P. Cuff  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 62(6):3436-50, June, 2016.

The Likelihood Encoder for Lossy Compression

E. Song, P. Cuff, V. Poor  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 62(4):1836-49, April, 2016.

Key Capacity for Product Sources with Application to Stationary Gaussian Processes

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 62(2):984-1005, February, 2016.

An Upper Bound on the Convergence Time for Quantized Consensus of Arbitrary Static Graphs (longer version)

S. Shang, P. Cuff, P. Hui, S. Kulkarni  —  IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 60(4):1127-32, April, 2015.

Rate-Distortion Theory for Secrecy Systems

C. Schieler, P. Cuff  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 60(12):7584-605, December, 2014.

Rate-Distortion-Based Physical Layer Secrecy in Multimode Fiber

E. Song, E. Soljanin, P. Cuff, V. Poor, K. Guan  —  IEEE Trans. on Communications, 62(3):1080-90, March, 2014.

Distributed Channel Synthesis

P. Cuff  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 59(11):7071-96, November, 2013.

Glauber Dynamics for the mean-field Potts Model

P. Cuff, J. Ding, O. Louidor, E. Lubetzky, Y. Peres, A. Sly  —  Journal of Statistical Physics, 149(3):432-477, November, 2012.

On the Role of the Refinement Layer in Multiple Description Coding and Scalable Coding (arXiv)

J. Wang, J. Chen, L. Zhao, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 57(3):1443-56, March, 2011.

Coordination Capacity

P. Cuff, H. Permuter, T. Cover  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 56(9):4181-206, September, 2010.

Capacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback

H. Permuter, P. Cuff, B. Van Roy, T. Weissman  —  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 54(7):3150-65, July, 2008.

Book Chapter

Secure Source Coding

P. Cuff, C. Schieler  —  Chapter 3 of Information Theoretic Security and Privacy of Information Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Dissertation

Communication in Networks for Coordinating Behavior

P. Cuff  —  Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, August, 2009.

Conference Proceedings

Differentially Private Oblivious RAM

S. Wagh, P. Mittal, P. Cuff  —  PETS, July, 2018.

Exact Soft-Covering Exponent

S. Yagli, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, June, 2018.

Key-Message Security over State-Dependent Wiretap Channels

A. Bunin, Z. Goldfeld, H. Permuter, S. Shamai, P. Cuff, P. Piantanida  —  ISIT, June, 2018.

The Shannon Cipher System with a Guessing Eavesdropper

L. Yu, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, June, 2017.

The Gelfand-Pinsker wiretap channel: Higher secrecy rates via a novel superposition code

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  ISIT, June, 2017.

Semantically-Secured Message-Key Trade-off over Wiretap Channels with Random Parameters

A. Bunin, Z. Goldfeld, H. Permuter, S. Shamai, P. Cuff, P. Piantanida  —  Eurocrypt, Workshop on Comm. Security (WCS), April, 2017.

Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels with Type Constrained States

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  Globecom, December, 2016.

Wiretap Channels with Random States Non-Causally Available at the Encoder

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  ICSEE, November, 2016.

Differential Privacy as a Mutual Information Constraint

P. Cuff, L. Yu  —  CCS, October, 2016.

Semantic-Security Capacity for Wiretap Channels of Type II

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  ISIT, July, 2016.

Soft Covering with High Probability

P. Cuff  —  ISIT, July, 2016.

Key Generation with Limited Interaction

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  ISIT, July, 2016.

Brascamp-Lieb Inequality and Its Reverse: An Information Theoretic View

J. Liu, T. Courtade, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  ISIT, July, 2016.

Smoothing Brascamp-Lieb Inequalities and Strong Converses for Common Randomness Generation

J. Liu, T. Courtade, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  ISIT, July, 2016.

Semantic-Security Capacity for the Physical Layer via Information Theory

Z. Goldfeld, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  SwSTE, June, 2016.

Strong Secrecy for Cooperative Broadcast Channels

Z. Goldfeld, G. Kramer, H. Permuter, P. Cuff  —  Int'l. Zurich Seminar on Communications, March, 2016.

A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma and Applications

P. Cuff  —  CNS Workshop on Physical-layer Methods for Wireless Security, September, 2015.

Gaussian Secure Source Coding and Wyner's Common Information

S. Satpathy, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, June, 2015.

One-Shot Mutual Covering Lemma and Marton's Inner Bound with a Common Message

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  ISIT, June, 2015 (semi-plenary).

Secret Key Generation with One Communicator and a One-Shot Converse via Hypercontractivity

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  ISIT, June, 2015.

Resolvability in E-gamma with Applications to Lossy Compression and Wiretap Channels

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  ISIT, June, 2015.

Joint Source-Channel Secrecy Using Hybrid Coding

E. Song, P. Cuff, V. Poor  —  ISIT, June, 2015.

A Rate-Distortion Based Secrecy System with Side Information at the Decoders

E. Song, P. Cuff, V. Poor  —  Allerton, October, 2014.

Secure Coordination with a Two-Sided Helper

S. Satpathy, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, July, 2014.

The Likelihood Encoder for Lossy Source Compression

E. Song, P. Cuff, V. Poor  —  ISIT, July, 2014.

The Henchman Problem: Measuring Secrecy by the Minimum Distortion in a List

C. Schieler, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, July, 2014.

Key Capacity with Limited One-Way Communication for Product Sources

J. Liu, P. Cuff, S. Verdú  —  ISIT, July, 2014.

The Application of Differential Privacy for Rank Aggregation: Privacy and Accuracy

S. Shang, T. Wang, P. Cuff, S. Kulkarni  —  Fusion, July, 2014.

Beyond Personalization and Anonymity: Toward a Group-Based Recommender System

S. Shang, Y. Hui, P. Hui, P. Cuff, S. Kulkarni  —  Symp. on Applied Computing (SAC), March, 2014.

A Connection between Good Rate-distortion Codes and Backward DMCs

C. Schieler, P. Cuff  —  ITW, September, 2013.

The Likelihood Encoder for Source Coding

P. Cuff, E. Song  —  ITW, September, 2013.

Secrecy in Cascade Networks

P. Cuff  —  ITW, September, 2013.

Secure Cascade Channel Synthesis

S. Satpathy, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, July, 2013.

A Bit of Secrecy for Gaussian Source Compression

E. Song, P. Cuff, V. Poor  —  ISIT, July, 2013.

Rate-Distortion Theory for Secrecy Systems

C. Schieler, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, July, 2013.

An Upper Bound on the Convergence Time for Quantized Consensus (full version)

S. Shang, P. Cuff, P. Hui, S. Kulkarni  —  Infocom, April, 2013.

Optimal Equivocation in Secrecy Systems - A Special Case of Distortion-based Characterization

P. Cuff  —  ITA, February, 2013 (Invited).

Source-Channel Secrecy with Causal Disclosure

C. Schieler, E. Song, P. Cuff, V. Poor  —  Allerton, October, 2012.

Condorcet Voting Methods Avoid the Paradoxes of Voting Theory

T. Wang, J. Sturm, P. Cuff, S. Kulkarni  —  Allerton, October, 2012 (Invited).

A Random Walk Based Model Incorporating Social Information for Recommendations

S. Shang, S. Kulkarni , P. Cuff, P. Hui  —  MLSP, September, 2012.

Iterative collaborative filtering for recommender systems with sparse data

Z. Zhang, P. Cuff, S. Kulkarni  —  MLSP, September, 2012.

Secrecy is Cheap if the Adversary Must Reconstruct

C. Schieler, P. Cuff  —  ISIT, July, 2012.

An Upper Bound on the Convergence Time for Distributed Binary Consensus

S. Shang, P. Cuff, S. Kulkarni, P. Hui  —  Fusion, July, 2012.

Cooperative Caching based on File Popularity Ranking in Delay Tolerant Networks

T. Wang, P. Hui, S. Kulkarni, P. Cuff  —  ExtremeCom, March, 2012.

The Source Coding Side of Secrecy

P. Cuff  —  Zurich Seminar on Comm. (IZS), February, 2012 (Invited).

A Class of Log-optimal Utility Functions

P. Cuff  —  ITA, February, 2012 (Invited).

Wisdom of the Crowd: Incorporating Social Influence in Recommendation Models

S. Shang, P. Hui, S. Kulkarni, P. Cuff —  ICPADS, HotPOST Workshop, December, 2011 (Best Paper Award).

Coordination using Implicit Communication

P. Cuff and L. Zhao  —  ITW, October, 2011.

Hybrid Codes Needed for Coordination over the Point-to-Point Channel

P. Cuff and C. Schieler  —  Allerton, September, 2011 (Invited).

A Lattice of Gambles

P. Cuff, T. Cover, G. Kumar, and L. Zhao  —  ISIT, August, 2011.

Mutual Information Scheduling for Ranking

H. Aftab, N. Raj, P. Cuff, and S. Kulkarni  —  Fusion, July, 2011.

A Framework for Partial Secrecy

P. Cuff  —  Globecom, December, 2010.

Using a Secret Key to Foil an Eavesdropper

P. Cuff  —  Allerton, September, 2010 (Invited).

State Information in Bayesian Games

P. Cuff  —  Presented at Allerton, October, 2009 (Invited).

Cascade Multiterminal Source Coding

P. Cuff, H.-I. Su, and A. El Gamal  —  ISIT, July, 2009.

Consolidating Achievable Regions of Multiple Descriptions

L. Zhao, P. Cuff, H. Permuter  —  ISIT, July, 2009.

Communication Requirements for Generating Correlated Random Variables

P. Cuff  —  ISIT, July, 2008 (Best Student Paper Award).

Capacity and Zero-Error Capacity of the Chemical Channel with Feedback

H. Permuter, P. Cuff, B. Van Roy, and T. Weissman  —  ISIT, July, 2007.

Talks (slides)