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We study the problem of efficient generative inference for Transformer models, in one of its most challenging settings: large deep models, with tight latency targets and long sequence lengths. Better understanding of the engineering…

Modern cryptographic methods for implementing privacy-preserving LLMs such as \gls{HE} require the LLMs to have a polynomial form. Forming such a representation is challenging because transformers include non-polynomial components, such as…

The Transformer architecture revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). Transformers-based models (e.g., BERT) power many important Web services, such as search, translation, question-answering, etc. While enormous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dave Dice , Alex Kogan

As various forms of fraud proliferate on Ethereum, it is imperative to safeguard against these malicious activities to protect susceptible users from being victimized. While current studies solely rely on graph-based fraud detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Sihao Hu , Zhen Zhang , Bingqiao Luo , Shengliang Lu , Bingsheng He , Ling Liu

Current safety alignment methods encode safe behavior implicitly within model parameters, creating a fundamental opacity: we cannot easily inspect why a model refuses a request, nor intervene when its safety judgments fail. We propose Safe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jingyuan Feng , Andrew Gambardella , Gouki Minegishi , Takeshi Kojima , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

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

The drastic increase in language models' parameters has led to a new trend of deploying models in cloud servers, raising growing concerns about private inference for Transformer-based models. Existing two-party privacy-preserving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zi Liang , Pinghui Wang , Ruofei Zhang , Nuo Xu , Lifeng Xing , Shuo Zhang

Feature engineering is the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from raw data via data mining techniques and is a key step to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms. In the multi-party feature engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Pei Fang , Zhendong Cai , Hui Chen , QingJiang Shi

There is a growing trend to outsource the inference task of large transformer models to cloud servers. However, this poses a severe threat to users' private data as they are exposed to cloud servers after uploading. Although several works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weize Wang , Yi Kuang

We present Syft 0.5, a general-purpose framework that combines a core group of privacy-enhancing technologies that facilitate a universal set of structured transparency systems. This framework is demonstrated through the design and…

In the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026), Gao et al. proposed an efficient and user-friendly secure transformer inference framework, namely Euston. In Euston, a singular value decomposition-based matrix…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiaqi Zhao , Fengwei Wang

This work presents a novel protocol for fast secure inference of neural networks applied to computer vision applications. It focuses on improving the overall performance of the online execution by deploying a subset of the model weights in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 George-Liviu Pereteanu , Amir Alansary , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

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

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

With the growing deployment of pre-trained models like Transformers on cloud platforms, privacy concerns about model parameters and inference data are intensifying. Existing Privacy-Preserving Transformer Inference (PPTI) frameworks face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jinglong Luo , Guanzhong Chen , Yehong Zhang , Shiyu Liu , Hui Wang , Yue Yu , Xun Zhou , Yuan Qi , Zenglin Xu

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

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

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Honglan Yu , Yibin Wang , Feifei Dai , Dong Liu , Haihui Fan , Xiaoyan Gu

Designing privacy-preserving deep learning models is a major challenge within the deep learning community. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has emerged as one of the most promising approaches in this realm, enabling the decoupling of knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Itamar Zimerman , Moran Baruch , Nir Drucker , Gilad Ezov , Omri Soceanu , Lior Wolf

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