Achieving Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Top-k Query Over Vertically Distributed Data Sources
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Abstract
Data collected from various data sources are destined to be logically interrelated but geographically distributed. Top-k query is an efficient way to find the most important objects from high volumes of data. A common way to process the top-k query over distributed data is to bring them to a centralized entity (e.g. cloud). However, there are privacy considerations during the top-k query when dealing with sensitive data (e.g. eHealthcare data) in such method. Apart from data privacy, efficiency also needs to be taken into consideration. Existing focuses on top-k query do not (fully) consider the data privacy or efficiency. In order to deal with the mentioned disadvantages, in this paper, we propose an efficient and privacy-preserving top-k query scheme over vertically distributed data. Specifically, we first design a data filtering technique to reduce the number of transmitted data from each data source to the centralized entity, which can greatly reduce the communication overhead and computational cost. Then, we propose a privacy-preserving top-k query scheme over encrypted data by deploying the homomorphic encryption technique, which can well preserve the private information and achieve the functionality at the same time. Besides, security analysis shows that the proposed scheme is privacy-preserving and performance evaluation validates the efficiency of the proposed scheme.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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