We study the problem of privacy amplification with an active adversary in the information theoretic setting. In this setting, two parties Alice and Bob start out with a shared n-bit weak random string W , and try to agree on a secret random key R over a public channel fully controlled by an active and unbounded adversary. Typical assumptions are that these two parties have access to local priva...

Basics We will use the following parameters: • n, the security parameter.

Working memory capacity is one of the most important learner's characteristics that can be used as an input parameter for personalizing learning in order to improve the learning process. Therefore, knowing learner’s working memory capacity and personalizing the learning contents according to learner’s working memory capacity levels are important research issues. This paper proposes an approach ...

Suppose estimating a model on each of a small number of potentially heterogeneous clusters yields approximately independent, unbiased and Gaussian parameter estimators. We make two contributions in this set-up. First, we show how to compare a ∗The authors would like to thank three anonymous referees and seminar and conference participants at various universities and conferences for helpful comm...

We provide first explicite examples of quantum deformations of D = 4 conformal algebra with mass-like deformation parameters, in applications to quantum gravity effects related with Planck mass. It is shown that one of the classical r-matrices defined on the Borel subalgebra of sl(4) with o(4, 2) reality conditions describes the light-cone κ-deformation of D = 4 Poincaré algebra. We embed this ...

We consider the problem of constructing honest confidence intervals (CIs) for a scalar parameter of interest, such as the regression discontinuity parameter, in nonparametric regression based on kernel or local polynomial estimators. To ensure that our CIs are honest, we derive and tabulate novel critical values that take into account the possible bias of the estimator upon which the CIs are ba...