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Privacy concerns in client-server machine learning have given rise to private inference (PI), where neural inference occurs directly on encrypted inputs. PI protects clients' personal data and the server's intellectual property. A common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Karthik Garimella , Nandan Kumar Jha , Brandon Reagen

As deep neural networks are increasingly being deployed in practice, their efficiency has become an important issue. While there are compression techniques for reducing the network's size, energy consumption and computational requirement,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Brandon Paulsen , Jingbo Wang , Chao Wang

Reverse engineering deep ReLU networks is a critical problem in understanding the complex behavior and interpretability of neural networks. In this research, we present a novel method for reconstructing deep ReLU networks by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Mehrab Hamidi

MLaaS Service Providers (SPs) holding a Neural Network would like to keep the Neural Network weights secret. On the other hand, users wish to utilize the SPs' Neural Network for inference without revealing their data. Multi-Party…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yakir Gorski , Amir Jevnisek , Shai Avidan

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

The proliferation of deep learning (DL) has led to the emergence of privacy and security concerns. To address these issues, secure Two-party computation (2PC) has been proposed as a means of enabling privacy-preserving DL computation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Hongwu Peng , Shanglin Zhou , Yukui Luo , Nuo Xu , Shijin Duan , Ran Ran , Jiahui Zhao , Shaoyi Huang , Xi Xie , Chenghong Wang , Tong Geng , Wujie Wen , Xiaolin Xu , Caiwen Ding

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows users to offload machine learning inference on untrusted servers without having to share their privacy-sensitive data. Despite their strong security properties, MPC-based private inference has not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kiwan Maeng , G. Edward Suh

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

Performing neural network inference on encrypted data without decryption is one popular method to enable privacy-preserving neural networks (PNet) as a service. Compared with regular neural networks deployed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-25 Jiaqi Xue , Lei Xu , Lin Chen , Weidong Shi , Kaidi Xu , Qian Lou

This paper introduces the first globally optimal algorithm for the empirical risk minimization problem of two-layer maxout and ReLU networks, i.e., minimizing the number of misclassifications. The algorithm has a worst-case time complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xi He , Yi Miao , Max A. Little

In this paper, we investigate one of the most fundamental nonconvex learning problems, ReLU regression, in the Differential Privacy (DP) model. Previous studies on private ReLU regression heavily rely on stringent assumptions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Meng Ding , Mingxi Lei , Shaowei Wang , Tianhang Zheng , Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

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

Recent results in nonparametric regression show that deep learning, i.e., neural network estimates with many hidden layers, are able to circumvent the so-called curse of dimensionality in case that suitable restrictions on the structure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-30 Michael Kohler , Sophie Langer

Formal verification of transformers has become increasingly important due to their widespread deployment in safety-critical applications. Compared to classic neural networks, the inferences of transformers involve highly complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hengjie Liu , Zhenya Zhang , Jianjun Zhao

A recent line of work shows that a deep neural network with ReLU nonlinearities arises from a finite sequence of cascaded sparse coding models, the outputs of which, except for the last element in the cascade, are sparse and unobservable.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Demba Ba

Homomorphic encryption enables arbitrary computation over data while it remains encrypted. This privacy-preserving feature is attractive for machine learning, but requires significant computational time due to the large overhead of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Edward Chou , Josh Beal , Daniel Levy , Serena Yeung , Albert Haque , Li Fei-Fei

The hidden state threat model of differential privacy (DP) assumes that the adversary has access only to the final trained machine learning (ML) model, without seeing intermediate states during training. However, the current privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rob Romijnders , Antti Koskela

Large Language Models (LLMs) with billions of parameters have drastically transformed AI applications. However, their demanding computation during inference has raised significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained devices.…

It is commonly recognized that the expressiveness of deep neural networks is contingent upon a range of factors, encompassing their depth, width, and other relevant considerations. Currently, the practical performance of the majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xuan Qi , Yi Wei

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have successfully learned useful data representations in various tasks. However, assessing the reliability of these representations remains a challenge. Deep Ensemble is widely considered the state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yufeng Xia , Jun Zhang , Zhiqiang Gong , Tingsong Jiang , Wen Yao