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Data privacy concerns often prevent the use of cloud-based machine learning services for sensitive personal data. While homomorphic encryption (HE) offers a potential solution by enabling computations on encrypted data, the challenge is to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Kanthi Sarpatwar , Karthik Nandakumar , Nalini Ratha , James Rayfield , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Sharath Pankanti , Roman Vaculin

Federated learning promises to make machine learning feasible on distributed, private datasets by implementing gradient descent using secure aggregation methods. The idea is to compute a global weight update without revealing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Badih Ghazi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing client data, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive domains. While existing approaches employ cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sahar Ghoflsaz Ghinani , Elaheh Sadredini

We present S3ML, a secure serving system for machine learning inference in this paper. S3ML runs machine learning models in Intel SGX enclaves to protect users' privacy. S3ML designs a secure key management service to construct flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Junming Ma , Chaofan Yu , Aihui Zhou , Bingzhe Wu , Xibin Wu , Xingyu Chen , Xiangqun Chen , Lei Wang , Donggang Cao

Convolutional neural network is a machine-learning model widely applied in various prediction tasks, such as computer vision and medical image analysis. Their great predictive power requires extensive computation, which encourages model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Minghui Li , Sherman S. M. Chow , Shengshan Hu , Yuejing Yan , Chao Shen , Qian Wang

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

Distributed inference serves as a promising approach to enabling the inference of large language models (LLMs) at the network edge. It distributes the inference process to multiple devices to ensure that the LLMs can fit into the device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xing Liu , Lizhuo Luo , Ming Tang , Chao Huang , Xu Chen

The use of Machine Learning (ML) for data-driven decision-making often relies on access to sensitive datasets, which introduces privacy challenges. Traditional encryption methods protect data at rest or in transit but fail to secure it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Alexandre Marques , Beatriz Sá , Rui Botelho , Pedro Pinto

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shashank Balla

Machine learning (ML) systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains where reliability is paramount. This thesis investigates how uncertainty estimation can enhance the safety and trustworthiness of ML, focusing on selective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Stephan Rabanser

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a class of deep neural networks designed to utilize minimal computational resources, which drives their popularity across various applications. Recent studies highlight the potential of mapping BNN model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Gokulnath Rajendran , Suman Deb , Anupam Chattopadhyay

The Internet of Medical Things transcends traditional medical boundaries, enabling a transition from reactive treatment to proactive prevention. This innovative method revolutionizes healthcare by facilitating early disease detection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ayoub Si-ahmed , Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi , Narhimene Boustia

AI algorithms, and machine learning (ML) techniques in particular, are increasingly important to individuals' lives, but have caused a range of privacy concerns addressed by, e.g., the European GDPR. Using cryptographic techniques, it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Amos Treiber , Alejandro Molina , Christian Weinert , Thomas Schneider , Kristian Kersting

Although machine learning (ML) is widely used for predictive tasks, there are important scenarios in which ML cannot be used or at least cannot achieve its full potential. A major barrier to adoption is the sensitive nature of predictive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Xianrui Meng , Joan Feigenbaum

Due to the advent of modern embedded systems and mobile devices with constrained resources, there is a great demand for incredibly efficient deep neural networks for machine learning purposes. There is also a growing concern of privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Priyank Kalgaonkar , Mohamed El-Sharkawy

Publicly available large pretrained models (i.e., backbones) and lightweight adapters for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) have become standard components in modern machine learning pipelines. However, preserving the privacy of both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Saisai Xia , Wenhao Wang , Zihao Wang , Yuhui Zhang , Yier Jin , Dan Meng , Rui Hou

Qualitative models provide crucial instruments for modelling complex biological systems. While advances in automated reasoning and symbolic encodings have enabled rigorous inference of these models from data, the process remains highly…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-14 Ondřej Huvar , Nikola Beneš , Martin Jonáš , David Šafránek , Samuel Pastva

Deep learning techniques are rapidly advanced recently, and becoming a necessity component for widespread systems. However, the inference process of deep learning is black-box, and not very suitable to safety-critical systems which must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Hiroshi Kuwajima , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

The processing of sensitive user data using deep learning models is an area that has gained recent traction. Existing work has leveraged homomorphic encryption (HE) schemes to enable computation on encrypted data. An early work was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Han Xuanyuan , Francisco Vargas , Stephen Cummins

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) exposes sensitive client data to service providers. Private inference mitigates this risk while preserving model functionality. Despite extensive progress in MPC-based solutions, they remain constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kaiwen Wang , Xiaolin Chang , Junchao Fan , Yuehan Dong