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Privacy-preserving inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using homomorphic encryption has emerged as a promising approach for enabling secure machine learning in untrusted environments. In our previous work, we introduced a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 John Chiang

In this paper, we focus on the design and analysis of the Analog Fountain Code (AFC) for short packet communications. We first propose a density evolution (DE) based framework, which tracks the evolution of the probability density function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Wen Jun Lim , Rana Abbas , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has recently attracted significant attention as both a cryptographic primitive and a systems challenge. Given the latest advances in accelerated computing, FHE presents a promising opportunity for…

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is facing infringement issues due to straightforward computations. This work, for the first time, raises a critical vulnerability of HDC, an attacker can reverse engineer the entire model, only requiring the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Shijin Duan , Shaolei Ren , Xiaolin Xu

This paper analyzes the design choices of face detection architecture that improve efficiency of computation cost and accuracy. Specifically, we re-examine the effectiveness of the standard convolutional block as a lightweight backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Joonhyun Jeong , Beomyoung Kim , Joonsang Yu , Youngjoon Yoo

The migration of computation to the cloud has raised concerns regarding the security and privacy of sensitive data, as their need to be decrypted before processing, renders them susceptible to potential breaches. Fully Homomorphic…

To reduce the computational cost of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices, structured pruning approaches have shown promise in lowering floating-point operations (FLOPs) without substantial drops in accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Lukas Meiner , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Secure signal processing is becoming a de facto model for preserving privacy. We propose a model based on the Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technique to mitigate security breaches. Our framework provides a method to perform a Fast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) solutions are gaining widespread popularity. Among these, many rely on homomorphic encryption (HE) that offers confidentiality of the model and the data, but at the cost of large latency and memory…

Flow Matching models achieve state-of-the-art image generation quality but incur substantial inference cost due to iterative denoising through large Transformer networks. We observe that different layer groups within a Transformer exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Guandong Li

Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) including the ResNet-20 architecture have been privately evaluated on encrypted, low-resolution data with the Residue-Number-System Cheon-Kim-Kim-Song (RNS-CKKS) homomorphic encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Vivian Maloney , Richard F. Obrecht , Vikram Saraph , Prathibha Rama , Kate Tallaksen

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

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is one of the most promising technologies for privacy protection as it allows an arbitrary number of function computations over encrypted data. However, the computational cost of these FHE systems limits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Toufique Morshed , Md Momin Al Aziz , Noman Mohammed

Private convolutional neural network (CNN) inference based on secure two-party computation (2PC) suffers from high communication and latency overhead, especially from convolution layers. In this paper, we propose UFO, a quantized 2PC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Wenxuan Zeng , Chao Yang , Tianshi Xu , Bo Zhang , Changrui Ren , Jin Dong , Meng Li

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

Depthwise separable convolution (DSC) has emerged as a crucial technique, especially for resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a dual-engine for the DSC hardware accelerator, which enables the full utilization of depthwise…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yi Chen , Jie Lou , Malte Wabnitz , Johnson Loh , Tobias Gemmeke

Sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction over the past few years as sparse CNNs can drastically decrease the model size and computations, if exploited befittingly, as compared to their dense counterparts.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Mahmood Azhar Qureshi , Arslan Munir

In order to enhance the real-time performance of convolutional neural networks(CNNs), more and more researchers are focusing on improving the efficiency of CNN. Based on the analysis of some CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a prominent framework for privacy-preserving machine learning, enabling inference directly on encrypted data. However, evaluating softmax, a core component of transformer architectures, remains particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hanjun Park , Byeongseo Min , Jiheon Woo , Min-Wook Jeong , Jongho Shin , Yongwoo Lee , Young-Sik Kim , Yongjune Kim

We present Chameleon, a novel hybrid (mixed-protocol) framework for secure function evaluation (SFE) which enables two parties to jointly compute a function without disclosing their private inputs. Chameleon combines the best aspects of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-11 M. Sadegh Riazi , Christian Weinert , Oleksandr Tkachenko , Ebrahim M. Songhori , Thomas Schneider , Farinaz Koushanfar