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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.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Pengzhi Huang , Thang Hoang , Yueying Li , Elaine Shi , G. Edward Suh

Transformers have reached remarkable success in sequence modeling. However, these models have efficiency issues as they need to store all the history token-level representations as memory. We present Memformer, an efficient neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Qingyang Wu , Zhenzhong Lan , Kun Qian , Jing Gu , Alborz Geramifard , Zhou Yu

Homomorphic encryption (HE) and secret sharing (SS) enable computations on encrypted data, providing significant privacy benefits for large transformer-based models (TBM) in sensitive sectors like medicine and finance. However, private TBM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yuntian Chen , Zhanyong Tang , Tianpei Lu , Bingsheng Zhang , Zhiying Shi , Zheng Wang

A typical setup in many machine learning scenarios involves a server that holds a model and a user that possesses data, and the challenge is to perform inference while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. Private Inference has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Netanel Raviv

Despite decades of research, existing navigation systems still face real-world challenges when deployed in the wild, e.g., in cluttered home environments or in human-occupied public spaces. To address this, we present a new class of…

Accuracy and efficiency remain challenges for multi-party computation (MPC) frameworks. Spin is a GPU-accelerated MPC framework that supports multiple computation parties and a dishonest majority adversarial setup. We propose optimized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Wuxuan Jiang , Xiangjun Song , Shenbai Hong , Haijun Zhang , Wenxin Liu , Bo Zhao , Wei Xu , Yi Li

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is an area of cryptography that enables computation on sensitive data from multiple sources while maintaining privacy guarantees. However, theoretical MPC protocols often do not scale efficiently to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Valerie Chen , Valerio Pastro , Mariana Raykova

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows parties to perform computations on data while keeping that data private. This capability has great potential for machine-learning applications: it facilitates training of machine-learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Brian Knott , Shobha Venkataraman , Awni Hannun , Shubho Sengupta , Mark Ibrahim , Laurens van der Maaten

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) offers a practical foundation for privacy-preserving machine learning at the edge, with MPC commonly employed to support nonlinear operations. These MPC protocols fundamentally rely on Oblivious Transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhuoran Li , Hanieh Totonchi Asl , Ebrahim Nouri , Yifei Cai , Danella Zhao

The emergence of cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for users -- massive and complex computing tasks can be outsourced to cloud servers. However, the privacy issues also follow. Fully homomorphic encryption shows great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Lizhi Xiong , Wenhao Zhou , Zhihua Xia , Qi Gu , Jian Weng

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

Transformers have had a profound impact on the field of artificial intelligence, especially on large language models and their variants. However, as was the case with neural networks, their black-box nature limits trust and deployment in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Abhiram Vellore , Niraj K. Jha

It is widely acknowledged that the performance of Transformer models is logarithmically related to their number of parameters and computational complexity. While approaches like Mixture of Experts (MoE) decouple parameter count from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zihao Huang , Qiyang Min , Hongzhi Huang , Defa Zhu , Yutao Zeng , Ran Guo , Xun Zhou

Privacy-preserving Transformer inference has gained attention due to the potential leakage of private information. Despite recent progress, existing frameworks still fall short of practical model scales, with gaps up to a hundredfold. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bowen Shen , Yuyue Chen , Peng Yang , Bin Zhang , Xi Zhang , Zoe L. Jiang

Faster, cheaper, and more power efficient optimization solvers than those currently offered by general-purpose solutions are required for extending the use of model predictive control (MPC) to resource-constrained embedded platforms. We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Juan L. Jerez , Paul J. Goulart , Stefan Richter , George A. Constantinides , Eric C. Kerrigan , Manfred Morari

Today's cloud vendors are competing to provide various offerings to simplify and accelerate AI service deployment. However, cloud users always have concerns about the confidentiality of their runtime data, which are supposed to be processed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Zhongshu Gu , Heqing Huang , Jialong Zhang , Dong Su , Hani Jamjoom , Ankita Lamba , Dimitrios Pendarakis , Ian Molloy

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) aims at enabling machine learning (ML) algorithms to be used on sensitive data. We contribute to this line of research by proposing a framework that allows efficient and secure evaluation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Nuttapong Attrapadung , Koki Hamada , Dai Ikarashi , Ryo Kikuchi , Takahiro Matsuda , Ibuki Mishina , Hiraku Morita , Jacob C. N. Schuldt

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) enables collaborative analytics without exposing private data. However, OLAP queries under MPC remain prohibitively slow due to oblivious execution and padding of intermediate results with filler tuples.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Long Gu , Shaza Zeitouni , Carsten Binnig , Zsolt István

Efficient inference is a critical challenge in deep generative modeling, particularly as diffusion models grow in capacity and complexity. While increased complexity often improves accuracy, it raises compute costs, latency, and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Siu Hang Ho , Prasad Ganesan , Nguyen Duong , Daniel Schlabig

This paper presents a robust adaptive learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for linear systems with parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances performing iterative tasks. The approach refines the parameter estimates…

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