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Heterogeneous collaborative computing with NPU and CPU has received widespread attention due to its substantial performance benefits. To ensure data confidentiality and integrity during computing, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Husheng Han , Xinyao Zheng , Yuanbo Wen , Yifan Hao , Erhu Feng , Ling Liang , Jianan Mu , Xiaqing Li , Tianyun Ma , Pengwei Jin , Xinkai Song , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Xing Hu

Performing machine learning tasks in mobile applications yields a challenging conflict of interest: highly sensitive client information (e.g., speech data) should remain private while also the intellectual property of service providers…

The ubiquitous use of IoT and machine learning applications is creating large amounts of data that require accurate and real-time processing. Although edge-based smart data processing can be enabled by deploying pretrained models, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yinghan Long , Indranil Chakraborty , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

In the era of data-driven decision-making, ensuring the privacy and security of shared data is paramount across various domains. Applying existing deep neural networks (DNNs) to encrypted data is critical and often compromises performance,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Al Amin , Kamrul Hasan , Sharif Ullah , Liang Hong

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed on mobile devices offer benefits like user privacy and reduced network latency, but introduce a significant security risk: the leakage of proprietary models to end users. To mitigate this risk, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xunjie Wang , Jiacheng Shi , Zihan Zhao , Yang Yu , Zhichao Hua , Jinyu Gu

While advanced machine learning (ML) models are deployed in numerous real-world applications, previous works demonstrate these models have security and privacy vulnerabilities. Various empirical research has been done in this field.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Boyang Zhang , Zheng Li , Ziqing Yang , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Mario Fritz , Yang Zhang

This paper proposes GuardNN, a secure DNN accelerator that provides hardware-based protection for user data and model parameters even in an untrusted environment. GuardNN shows that the architecture and protection can be customized for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Weizhe Hua , Muhammad Umar , Zhiru Zhang , G. Edward Suh

Tensor networks, widely used for providing efficient representations of low-energy states of local quantum many-body systems, have been recently proposed as machine learning architectures which could present advantages with respect to…

Mobile devices increasingly rely on deep neural networks (DNNs) for complex inference tasks, but running entire models locally drains the device battery quickly. Offloading computation entirely to cloud or edge servers reduces processing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tam Thanh Nguyen , Tuan Van Ngo , Long Thanh Le , Yong Hao Pua , Mao Van Ngo , Binbin Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

The use of trusted hardware has become a promising solution to enable privacy-preserving machine learning. In particular, users can upload their private data and models to a hardware-enforced trusted execution environment (e.g. an enclave…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Peichen Xie , Xuanle Ren , Guangyu Sun

We introduce CheckNet, a method for secure inference with deep neural networks on untrusted devices. CheckNet is like a checksum for neural network inference: it verifies the integrity of the inference computation performed by untrusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Marcus Comiter , Surat Teerapittayanon , H. T. Kung

Homomorphic encryption (HE)-based deep neural network (DNN) inference protects data and model privacy but suffers from significant computation overhead. We observe transforming the DNN weights into circulant matrices converts general…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Tianshi Xu , Lemeng Wu , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

As the application of deep learning continues to grow, so does the amount of data used to make predictions. While traditionally, big-data deep learning was constrained by computing performance and off-chip memory bandwidth, a new constraint…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Brandon Reagen , Wooseok Choi , Yeongil Ko , Vincent Lee , Gu-Yeon Wei , Hsien-Hsin S. Lee , David Brooks

With the emergence of smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as deep learning technologies have witnessed an increasing adoption. To support the requirements of such paradigm in terms of memory and computation, joint and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi , Mohsen Guizani

Current developments in Enterprise Systems observe a paradigm shift, moving the needle from the backend to the edge sectors of those; by distributing data, decentralizing applications and integrating novel components seamlessly to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Laurent Gomez , Marcus Wilhelm , José Márquez , Patrick Duverger

The widespread adoption of Machine Learning as a Service raises critical privacy and security concerns, particularly about data confidentiality and trust in both cloud providers and the machine learning models. Homomorphic Encryption (HE)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nges Brian Njungle , Eric Jahns , Michel A. Kinsy

In this paper, we propose a novel design, called MixNN, for protecting deep learning model structure and parameters. The layers in a deep learning model of MixNN are fully decentralized. It hides communication address, layer parameters and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chao Liu , Hao Chen , Yusen Wu , Rui Jin

The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a main data generation infrastructure for achieving better system intelligence. However, the extensive data collection and processing in IoT also engender various privacy concerns. This paper provides a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mengyao Zheng , Dixing Xu , Linshan Jiang , Chaojie Gu , Rui Tan , Peng Cheng

Large-scale systems that compute analytics over a fleet of devices must achieve high privacy and security standards while also meeting data quality, usability, and resource efficiency expectations. We present a next-generation federated…

On-device machine learning (ML) has become a fundamental component of emerging mobile applications. Adaptive model deployment delivers efficient inference for heterogeneous device capabilities and performance requirements through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mengyang Liu , Chenyu Lu , Haodong Tian , Fang Dong , Ruiting Zhou , Wei Wang , Dian Shen , Guangtong Li , Ye Wan , Li Li