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Secure multi-party computation (MPC) enables computation directly on encrypted data and protects both data and model privacy in deep learning inference. However, existing neural network architectures, including Vision Transformers (ViTs),…

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This paper focuses on designing a privacy-preserving Machine Learning (ML) inference protocol for a hierarchical setup, where clients own/generate data, model owners (cloud servers) have a pre-trained ML model, and edge servers perform ML…

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When applying machine learning to sensitive data, one has to find a balance between accuracy, information security, and computational-complexity. Recent studies combined Homomorphic Encryption with neural networks to make inferences while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Alon Brutzkus , Oren Elisha , Ran Gilad-Bachrach

We are witnessing an increasing trend towardsusing Machine Learning (ML) based prediction systems, span-ning across different application domains, including productrecommendation systems, personal assistant devices, facialrecognition, etc.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran , Prashanth Thinakaran , Cyan Subhra Mishra , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir , Chita R. Das

Transformer-based language models have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet their high inference latency poses a significant challenge for real-timeand large-scale deployment. While existing caching…

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Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is a technique enabling data from several sources to be used in a secure computation revealing only the result while protecting the original data, facilitating shared utilization of data sets gathered by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Pierre-Francois Wolfe , Rushi Patel , Robert Munafo , Mayank Varia , Martin Herbordt

The impressive performance of transformer models has sparked the deployment of intelligent applications on resource-constrained edge devices. However, ensuring high-quality service for real-time edge systems is a significant challenge due…

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On-device machine learning (ML) inference can enable the use of private user data on user devices without revealing them to remote servers. However, a pure on-device solution to private ML inference is impractical for many applications that…

The prevalent use of Transformer-like models, exemplified by ChatGPT in modern language processing applications, underscores the critical need for enabling private inference essential for many cloud-based services reliant on such models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiangrui Xu , Qiao Zhang , Rui Ning , Chunsheng Xin , Hongyi Wu

Transformer has been successfully used in practical applications, such as ChatGPT, due to its powerful advantages. However, users' input is leaked to the model provider during the service. With people's attention to privacy,…

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Deep neural networks are widely used in personalized recommendation systems. Unlike regular DNN inference workloads, recommendation inference is memory-bound due to the many random memory accesses needed to lookup the embedding tables. The…

Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) enables untrusted parties to jointly compute a function without revealing their inputs. Its application to machine learning (ML) has gained significant attention, particularly for secure inference…

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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…

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Machine learning has recently gained traction as a way to overcome the slow accelerator generation and implementation process on an FPGA. It can be used to build performance and resource usage models that enable fast early-stage design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Gagandeep Singh , Dionysios Diamantopoulos , Juan Gómez-Luna , Sander Stuijk , Henk Corporaal , Onur Mutlu

Confidential multi-stakeholder machine learning (ML) allows multiple parties to perform collaborative data analytics while not revealing their intellectual property, such as ML source code, model, or datasets. State-of-the-art solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Wojciech Ozga , Do Le Quoc , Christof Fetzer

This paper explores the privacy of cloud outsourced Model Predictive Control (MPC) for a linear system with input constraints. In our cloud-based architecture, a client sends her private states to the cloud who performs the MPC computation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Andreea B. Alexandru , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Existing work on privacy-preserving machine learning with Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) is almost exclusively focused on model training and on inference with trained models, thereby overlooking the important data pre-processing stage.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Xiling Li , Rafael Dowsley , Martine De Cock

Workload forecasting is pivotal in cloud service applications, such as auto-scaling and scheduling, with profound implications for operational efficiency. Although Transformer-based forecasting models have demonstrated remarkable success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jiadong Chen , Hengyu Ye , Fuxin Jiang , Xiao He , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Xiaofeng Gao

In the domain of multivariate forecasting, transformer models stand out as powerful apparatus, displaying exceptional capabilities in handling messy datasets from real-world contexts. However, the inherent complexity of these datasets,…

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