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Modern machine learning systems increasingly rely on sensitive data, creating significant privacy, security, and regulatory risks that existing privacy-preserving machine learning (ppML) techniques, such as Differential Privacy (DP) and…

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In this paper, we propose a new secure machine learning inference platform assisted by a small dedicated security processor, which will be easier to protect and deploy compared to today's TEEs integrated into high-performance processors.…

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Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) based on cryptographic protocols has emerged as a promising paradigm to protect user data privacy in cloud-based machine learning services. While it achieves formal privacy protection, PPML often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenxuan Zeng , Tianshi Xu , Yi Chen , Yifan Zhou , Mingzhe Zhang , Jin Tan , Cheng Hong , Meng Li

CPU-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) and differential privacy (DP) have gained wide applications for private inference. Due to high inference latency in TEEs, researchers use partition-based approaches that offload linear model…

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In contemporary cloud-based services, protecting users' sensitive data and ensuring the confidentiality of the server's model are critical. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables inference directly on encrypted inputs, but its…

Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) is an innovative architecture proposed by DeepSeek, designed to ensure efficient and economical inference by significantly compressing the Key-Value (KV) cache into a latent vector. Compared to MLA,…

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As large language models (LLMs) continue to grow in size, fewer users are able to host and run models locally. This has led to increased use of third-party hosting services. However, in this setting, there is a lack of guarantees on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Arka Pal , Louai Zahran , William Gvozdjak , Akilesh Potti , Micah Goldblum

We consider a collaborative learning scenario in which multiple data-owners wish to jointly train a logistic regression model, while keeping their individual datasets private from the other parties. We propose COPML, a fully-decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Big data has been a pervasive catchphrase in recent years, but dealing with data scarcity has become a crucial question for many real-world deep learning (DL) applications. A popular methodology to efficiently enable the training of DL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Roman Walch , Samuel Sousa , Lukas Helminger , Stefanie Lindstaedt , Christian Rechberger , Andreas Trügler

Private large language model (LLM) inference based on cryptographic primitives offers a promising path towards privacy-preserving deep learning. However, existing frameworks only support dense LLMs like LLaMA-1 and struggle to scale to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yifan Zhou , Tianshi Xu , Jue Hong , Ye Wu , Meng Li

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is a commonly used tool for building privacy-preserving applications. However, in scenarios with many clients and high-latency networks, communication costs due to large ciphertext sizes are the bottleneck. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi , Abdulrahman Diaa , Florian Kerschbaum

The privacy of data is a major challenge in machine learning as a trained model may expose sensitive information of the enclosed dataset. Besides, the limited computation capability and capacity of edge devices have made cloud-hosted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Behnam Khaleghi , Mohsen Imani , Tajana Rosing

Many ML applications and products train on medium amounts of input data but get bottlenecked in real-time inference. When implementing ML systems, conventional wisdom favors segregating ML code into services queried by product code via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Daniel S Johnson , Igor L Markov

Modern cloud inference creates a two sided privacy problem where users reveal sensitive inputs to providers, while providers must execute proprietary model weights inside potentially leaky execution environments. Fully homomorphic…

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Preserving data confidentiality during the fine-tuning of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for sensitive applications. This work introduces an interactive protocol adapting the Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) technique for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jordan Frery , Roman Bredehoft , Jakub Klemsa , Arthur Meyre , Andrei Stoian

In an MPC-protected distributed computation, although the use of MPC assures data privacy during computation, sensitive information may still be inferred by curious MPC participants from the computation output. This can be observed, for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ivan Tjuawinata , Jiabo Wang , Mengmeng Yang , Shanxiang Lyu , Huaxiong Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam

Large model inference is shifting from cloud to edge due to concerns about the privacy of user interaction data. However, edge devices often struggle with limited computing power, memory, and bandwidth, requiring collaboration across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zonghang Li , Wenjiao Feng , Mohsen Guizani , Hongfang Yu

Large language models(LLMs) are currently at the forefront of the machine learning field, which show a broad application prospect but at the same time expose some risks of privacy leakage. We combined Fully Homomorphic Encryption(FHE) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Zhang Ruoyan , Zheng Zhongxiang , Bao Wankang

Secure multi-party computation-based machine learning, referred to as MPL, has become an important technology to utilize data from multiple parties with privacy preservation. While MPL provides rigorous security guarantees for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Wenqiang Ruan , Mingxin Xu , Wenjing Fang , Li Wang , Lei Wang , Weili Han

The simultaneous rise of machine learning as a service and concerns over user privacy have increasingly motivated the need for private inference (PI). While recent work demonstrates PI is possible using cryptographic primitives, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zahra Ghodsi , Nandan Kumar Jha , Brandon Reagen , Siddharth Garg