Selected Papers for Communication Complexity and Applications 
Two-party communication complexity
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    Lokam.
    "Complexity lower bounds using Linear Algebra"
    Book Preprint.
    
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    Sherstov.
    "Communication Lower Bounds using Dual Polynomials."
    Invited survey for The Bulletin of the European Association for
    Theoretical Computer Science.
    
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    Alexander A. Sherstov.
    "The Pattern Matrix Method."
    STOC 2008.
    
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    Alexander A. Sherstov.
    "Communication complexity under product and nonproduct distributions."
    CCC 2008.
    
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      Separates product and nonproduct distributional complexity.
     
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    Toniann Pitassi.
    Notes on "Best Partition Communication Complexity."
    
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    Ran Raz and Pierre McKenzie.
    "Separation of the Monotone NC Hierarchy."
    FOCS 1997.
    
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    Ran Raz.
    "Exponential Separation of Quantum and Classical Communication
    Complexity."
    STOC 1999.
    
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    Ran Raz.
    "The BNS-Chung Criterion for Multiparty Communication Complexity."
    Journal of Computational Complexity 9(2), 2000.
    
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    Rahul Jain and Hartmut Klauck.
    "The Partition Bound for Classical Communication Complexity and
    Query Complexity."
    CCC 2012.
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      Compares and relates several different lower bound techniques
      for communication complexity. Develops one lower bound to rule
      them all: the partition bound. Linear programs abound.
     
Information complexity
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    Boaz Barak, Mark Braverman, Xi Chen, and Anup Rao. 
    "How to compress interactive communication." 
    STOC 2010.
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      The players use shared randomness to simulate the protocol, then
      synchronize their simulations. 
     
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    Iordanis Kerenidis, Sophie Laplante, Virginie Lerays,
    Jérémie Roland, and David Xiao.
    "Lower bounds on information complexity via zero-communication
    protocols and applications."
    FOCS 2012.
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      If you're willing to let the error increase, then the players
      might as well be playing solitaire (with option to abort).
     
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    Mark Braverman and Anup Rao. 
    "Information Equals Amortized Communication." 
    Submitted.
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      Does what the title says, for an amortization over infinitely
      many instances.
     
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    Mark Braverman.
    "Interactive information complexity."
    STOC 2012.
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    [ECCC
    version (no paywall)]
     
      Develops a measure of information cost which works independent of input distribution.
     
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    Amit Chakrabarti, Yaoyun Shi, Anthony Wirth, and Andrew Yao.
    "Information Complexity and the Direct Sum Problem for
    Simultaneous Message Complexity."
    FOCS 2001.
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      That direct sum problem everyone's talking about.
     
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    Mark Braverman and Omri Weinstein.
    "A Discrepancy Lower Bound for Information Complexity."
    LNCS 2012, Volume 7408, Approximation, Randomization, and
    Combinatorial Optimization, p. 459-470.
    [pdf]
    [arXiv (no paywall)]
     
      More lower bounds, more information complexity.
     
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    Ziv Bar-Yossef, T. S. Jayram, Ravi Kumar, and D. Sivakumar.
    "An information statistics approach to data stream and
    communication complexity."
    Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Volume 68,
    p. 702-732, June 2004.
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      The paper that got everyone interested. "A real gem." - Toni
     
Privacy
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    Joan Feigenbaum, Aaron D. Jaggard, and Michael Schapira.
    "Approximate Privacy: Foundations and Quantification (extended abstract)."
    EC 2010.
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 (Full version split between 
    "Approximate Privacy: Foundations and Quantification"
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    and 
    "Approximate Privacy: PARs for Set Problems"
    [pdf].) 
      Definition of PAR, a geometric concept of privacy. Upper bounds
      for PAR of 2-player Vickrey auction, less than, set
      disjointness, and set intersection.
     
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    Anil Ada, Arkadev Chattopadhyay, Stephen Cook, Lila Fontes, Michal
    Koucký, and Toniann Pitassi.
    "The Hardness of Being Private."
    CCC 2012.
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      Lower bounds on communication-privacy tradeoffs for 2-player
      Vickrey auctions using PAR and information cost. Relations
      between various measures of privacy.
     
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    Andrew McGregor, Ilya Mironov, Toniann Pitassi, Omer Reingold,
    Kunal Talwar, Salil Vadhan.
    "The Limits of Two-Party Differential Privacy."
    ECCC 18:106 (2011).
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      Relates information complexity to differential privacy.