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Hardware enclaves such as Intel SGX are a promising technology for improving the security of databases outsourced to the cloud. These enclaves provide an execution environment isolated from the hypervisor/OS, and encrypt data in RAM.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Saba Eskandarian , Matei Zaharia

ML-as-a-service is gaining popularity where a cloud server hosts a trained model and offers prediction (inference) service to users. In this setting, our objective is to protect the confidentiality of both the users' input queries as well…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Anshul Aggarwal , Trevor E. Carlson , Reza Shokri , Shruti Tople

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are showing tremendous success on realistic image classification tasks. Notably, their accuracy is similar to the state-of-the-art accuracy obtained by full-precision models tailored to edge devices. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Franyell Silfa , Jose Maria Arnau , Antonio González

Recent work in time series forecasting has explored reformulating regression as a classification task. By discretizing the continuous target space into bins and predicting over a fixed set of classes, these approaches benefit from more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Andrei Chernov , Vitaliy Pozdnyakov , Ilya Makarov

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) exposes sensitive client data to service providers. Private inference mitigates this risk while preserving model functionality. Despite extensive progress in MPC-based solutions, they remain constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kaiwen Wang , Xiaolin Chang , Junchao Fan , Yuehan Dong

Recent advances in neural networks (NNs) exhibit unprecedented success at transforming large, unstructured data streams into compact higher-level semantic information for tasks such as handwriting recognition, image classification, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Vincent T. Lee , Armin Alaghi , John P. Hayes , Visvesh Sathe , Luis Ceze

Machine learning (ML) is widely used today, especially through deep neural networks (DNNs), however, increasing computational load and resource requirements have led to cloud-based solutions. To address this problem, a new generation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Farzad Nikfam , Raffaele Casaburi , Alberto Marchisio , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the advent of the 5G era, deep learning has received extensive attention from researchers. Broad Learning System (BLS) is a new deep learning model proposed recently, which shows its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Haiyang Liu , Hanlin Zhang , Li Guo , Jia Yu , Jie Lin

Modern computer systems store vast amounts of personal data, enabling advances in AI and ML but risking user privacy and trust. For privacy reasons, it is sometimes desired for an ML model to forget part of the data it was trained on. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amartya Hatua , Trung T. Nguyen , Filip Cano , Andrew H. Sung

This paper investigates information-theoretic oblivious transfer via a discrete memoryless broadcast channel with one sender and two receivers. We analyze both non-colluding and colluding honest-but-curious user models and establish general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hadi Aghaee , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

Emerging neural networks based machine learning techniques such as deep learning and its variants have shown tremendous potential in many application domains. However, they raise serious privacy concerns due to the risk of leakage of highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Runhua Xu , James B. D. Joshi , Chao Li

Bayesian neural networks (BNN) can estimate the uncertainty in predictions, as opposed to non-Bayesian neural networks (NNs). However, BNNs have been far less widely used than non-Bayesian NNs in practice since they need iterative NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Namuk Park , Taekyu Lee , Songkuk Kim

Model compression has emerged as an important area of research for deploying deep learning models on Internet-of-Things (IoT). However, for extremely memory-constrained scenarios, even the compressed models cannot fit within the memory of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-30 Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Chingyi Lin , Anderson Sartor , Radu Marculescu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have excelled in various graph learning tasks, particularly node classification. However, their performance is often hampered by noisy measurements in real-world graphs, which can corrupt critical patterns in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shuyi Chen , Kaize Ding , Shixiang Zhu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Daniele Zambon , Carlo Baldassi , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi

Model binarization has made significant progress in enabling real-time and energy-efficient computation for convolutional neural networks (CNN), offering a potential solution to the deployment challenges faced by Vision Transformers (ViTs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Tian Gao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Yu Zhang , Huajun Liu , Kaijie Yin , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

Robust optimization has been established as a leading methodology to approach decision problems under uncertainty. To derive a robust optimization model, a central ingredient is to identify a suitable model for uncertainty, which is called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Marc Goerigk , Jannis Kurtz

This work focuses on the question of learning from a large number of devices with each device holding only a single sample of data. Several real-world applications exist to this one sample per client setup up including learning from fitness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Praneeth Vepakomma , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Samuel Horváth , Munther A. Dahleh

Low-precision weights and activations in deep neural networks (DNNs) outperform their full-precision counterparts in terms of hardware efficiency. When implemented with low-precision operations, specifically in the extreme case where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Behnam Ghavami , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton