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Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used as a powerful tool to solve many problems of machine learning and computer vision. In this paper, we aim to provide insight on the property of convolutional neural networks, as…

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Ensuring privacy-preserving inference on cryptographically secure data is a well-known computational challenge. To alleviate the bottleneck of costly cryptographic computations in non-linear activations, recent methods have suggested…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Saswat Das , Marco Romanelli , Ferdinando Fioretto

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

Most of convolutional neural networks share the same characteristic: each convolutional layer is followed by a nonlinear activation layer where Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) is the most widely used. In this paper, we argue that the designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Gangming Zhao , Zhaoxiang Zhang , He Guan , Peng Tang , Jingdong Wang

Recent work using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has made non-interactive privacy-preserving inference of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) possible. However, the performance of these methods remain limited by their heavy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Eduardo Chielle , Manaar Alam , Jinting Liu , Jovan Kascelan , Michail Maniatakos

Outsourcing deep neural networks (DNNs) inference tasks to an untrusted cloud raises data privacy and integrity concerns. While there are many techniques to ensure privacy and integrity for polynomial-based computations, DNNs involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ramy E. Ali , Jinhyun So , A. Salman Avestimehr

Deep learning training training algorithms are a huge success in recent years in many fields including speech, text,image video etc. Deeper and deeper layers are proposed with huge success with resnet structures having around 152 layers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chinmay Rane , Kanishka Tyagi , Michael Manry

Traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) typically use the same activation function (usually ReLU) for all neurons with non-linear mapping operations. For example, the deep convolutional architecture Inception-v4 uses ReLU. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Luna M. Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one of the key architectures of deep learning models, have achieved superior performance on many machine learning tasks such as image classification, video recognition, and power systems. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hanxiao Lu , Zeyu Huang , Ren Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become indispensable for solving machine learning tasks in speech recognition, computer vision, and other areas that involve high-dimensional data. A CNN filters the input feature using a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jonathan Ephrath , Moshe Eliasof , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Machine learning algorithms based on deep neural networks have achieved remarkable results and are being extensively used in different domains. However, the machine learning algorithms requires access to raw data which is often privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Ehsan Hesamifard , Hassan Takabi , Mehdi Ghasemi

For most state-of-the-art architectures, Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) becomes a standard component accompanied with each layer. Although ReLU can ease the network training to an extent, the character of blocking negative values may suppress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Xuanyi Dong , Guoliang Kang , Kun Zhan , Yi Yang

The recent rise of privacy concerns has led researchers to devise methods for private neural inference -- where inferences are made directly on encrypted data, never seeing inputs. The primary challenge facing private inference is that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Nandan Kumar Jha , Zahra Ghodsi , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) usually use the same activation function, such as RELU, for all convolutional layers. There are performance limitations of just using RELU. In order to achieve better classification performance, reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Luna M. Zhang

Recently, much attention has been devoted to finding highly efficient and powerful activation functions for CNN layers. Because activation functions inject different nonlinearities between layers that affect performance, varying them is one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Loris Nanni , Gianluca Maguolo , Sheryl Brahnam , Michelangelo Paci

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is widely used in computer vision applications. In the networks that deal with images, CNNs are the most time-consuming layer of the networks. Usually, the solution to address the computation cost is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meisam Rakhshanfar

Private computation of nonlinear functions, such as Rectified Linear Units (ReLUs) and max-pooling operations, in deep neural networks (DNNs) poses significant challenges in terms of storage, bandwidth, and time consumption. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Toluwani Aremu

As privacy concerns in AI technologies continue to grow, Homomorphic Encryption (HE) offers a way to perform computations on encrypted data without the need of decryption during operations. However, HE is limited to addition and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Dimitrios Sygletos , Dimitra Papatsaroucha , Marios Choudetsanakis , Ilias Politis , Evangelos K. Markakis

Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent studies indicate that private training data can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum

We introduce CryptGPU, a system for privacy-preserving machine learning that implements all operations on the GPU (graphics processing unit). Just as GPUs played a pivotal role in the success of modern deep learning, they are also essential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sijun Tan , Brian Knott , Yuan Tian , David J. Wu
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