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Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) are used to safeguard on-device models. However, directly employing TEEs to secure the entire DNN model is challenging due to the limited computational speed. Utilizing GPU can accelerate DNN's…

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Inference using deep neural networks is often outsourced to the cloud since it is a computationally demanding task. However, this raises a fundamental issue of trust. How can a client be sure that the cloud has performed inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zahra Ghodsi , Tianyu Gu , Siddharth Garg

With the increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, security concerns have become a major challenge: confidential information is constantly being transmitted (sometimes inadvertently) from user devices to untrusted cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Peterson Yuhala

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have become a promising solution to secure DNN models on edge devices. However, the existing solutions either provide inadequate protection or introduce large performance overhead. Taking both security…

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MLaaS (Machine Learning as a Service) has become popular in the cloud computing domain, allowing users to leverage cloud resources for running private inference of ML models on their data. However, ensuring user input privacy and secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Kishore Rajasekar , Randolph Loh , Kar Wai Fok , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

On-device ML introduces new security challenges: DNN models become white-box accessible to device users. Based on white-box information, adversaries can conduct effective model stealing (MS) and membership inference attack (MIA). Using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ziqi Zhang , Chen Gong , Yifeng Cai , Yuanyuan Yuan , Bingyan Liu , Ding Li , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

Protecting the privacy of input data is of growing importance as machine learning methods reach new application domains. In this paper, we provide a unified training and inference framework for large DNNs while protecting input privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Hanieh Hashemi , Yongqin Wang , Murali Annavaram

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging technology to transform the cloud-based computing services into the edge-based ones. Autonomous vehicular network (AVNET), as one of the most promising applications of MEC, can feature edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jiasi Weng , Jian Weng , Yue Zhang , Ming Li , Zhaodi Wen

Cloud workloads have dominated generative AI based on large language models (LLM). Specialized hardware accelerators, such as GPUs, NPUs, and TPUs, play a key role in AI adoption due to their superior performance over general-purpose CPUs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Aritra Dhar , Clément Thorens , Lara Magdalena Lazier , Lukas Cavigelli

More and more edge devices and mobile apps are leveraging deep learning (DL) capabilities. Deploying such models on devices -- referred to as on-device models -- rather than as remote cloud-hosted services, has gained popularity because it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Mingyi Zhou , Xiang Gao , Jing Wu , John Grundy , Xiao Chen , Chunyang Chen , Li Li

Model stealing, i.e., unauthorized access and exfiltration of deep learning models, has become one of the major threats. Proprietary models may be protected by access controls and encryption. However, in reality, these measures can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuling Cai , Fan Xiang , Guozhu Meng , Yinzhi Cao , Kai Chen

Utilization of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, especially Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, becomes a widely accepted standard in many domains more particularly IoT-based systems. DNN models reach impressive performances in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Raphaël Joud , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Rémi Bernhard , Jean-Baptiste Rigaud

The widespread adoption of outsourced neural network inference presents significant privacy challenges, as sensitive user data is processed on untrusted remote servers. Secure inference offers a privacy-preserving solution, but existing…

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Large scale deep learning model, such as modern language models and diffusion architectures, have revolutionized applications ranging from natural language processing to computer vision. However, their deployment in distributed or…

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in a variety of machine learning applications applied to rich user data on the cloud. However, this approach introduces a number of privacy and efficiency challenges, as the cloud operator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Seyed Ali Osia , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ali Taheri , Kleomenis Katevas , Hamid R. Rabiee , Nicholas D. Lane , Hamed Haddadi

The increasing demand for on-device deep learning services calls for a highly efficient manner to deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on mobile devices with limited capacity. The cloud-based solution is a promising approach to enabling deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Ji Wang , Jianguo Zhang , Weidong Bao , Xiaomin Zhu , Bokai Cao , Philip S. Yu

Edge intelligent applications like VR/AR and language model based chatbots have become widespread with the rapid expansion of IoT and mobile devices. However, constrained edge devices often cannot serve the increasingly large and complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

The widespread adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained scenarios has driven the development of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) system. However, this approach is susceptible to privacy leakage, as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jinyu Lu , Xinrong Sun , Yunting Tao , Tong Ji , Fanyu Kong , Guoqiang Yang

In split inference, a deep neural network (DNN) is partitioned to run the early part of the DNN at the edge and the later part of the DNN in the cloud. This meets two key requirements for on-device machine learning: input privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Fahim Kawsar

Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads are quickly moving from datacenters onto edge devices, for latency, privacy, or energy reasons. While datacenter networks can be protected using conventional cybersecurity measures, edge neural networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihailo Isakov , Vijay Gadepally , Karen M. Gettings , Michel A. Kinsy