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Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) allows mutually distrusting parties to run joint computations without revealing private data. Current MPC algorithms scale poorly with data size, which makes MPC on "big data" prohibitively slow and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Nikolaj Volgushev , Malte Schwarzkopf , Ben Getchell , Mayank Varia , Andrei Lapets , Azer Bestavros

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) is an increasingly popular design where a company with abundant computing resources trains a deep neural network and offers query access for tasks like image classification. The challenge with this…

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

In this paper, we consider a secure multi-party computation problem (MPC), where the goal is to offload the computation of an arbitrary polynomial function of some massive private matrices (inputs) to a cluster of workers. The workers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC) allows parties with similar background to compute results upon their private data, minimizing the threat of disclosure. The exponential increase in sensitive data that needs to be passed upon networked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra , Neha Koria , Nikhil Kapoor , Ravish Bahety

Typical design flows are hierarchical and rely on assembling many individual technology elements from standard cells to complete boards. Providers use compact models to provide simplified views of their products to their users. Designers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Dan Alexandrescu , Aneesh Balakrishnan , Thomas Lange , Maximilien Glorieux

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a broad cryptographic concept that can be adopted for privacy-preserving computation. With MPC, a number of parties can collaboratively compute a function, without revealing the actual input or output…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Zhou Ni , Rujia Wang

Federated learning is a distributed learning setting where the main aim is to train machine learning models without having to share raw data but only what is required for learning. To guarantee training data privacy and high-utility models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Mikko A. Heikkilä

Replacing non-polynomial functions (e.g., non-linear activation functions such as ReLU) in a neural network with their polynomial approximations is a standard practice in privacy-preserving machine learning. The resulting neural network,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chi Zhang , Jingjing Fan , Man Ho Au , Siu Ming Yiu

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

Binarized Neural Networks (BNN) offer efficient implementations for machine learning tasks and facilitate Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) by simplifying operations with binary values. Nevertheless, challenges persist in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Benchang Dong , Zhili Chen , Xin Chen , Shiwen Wei , Jie Fu , Huifa Li

Neural networks, with the capability to provide efficient predictive models, have been widely used in medical, financial, and other fields, bringing great convenience to our lives. However, the high accuracy of the model requires a large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zhengqiang Ge , Zhipeng Zhou , Dong Guo , Qiang Li

Federated learning facilitates the collaborative training of models without the sharing of raw data. However, recent attacks demonstrate that simply maintaining data locality during training processes does not provide sufficient privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Stacey Truex , Nathalie Baracaldo , Ali Anwar , Thomas Steinke , Heiko Ludwig , Rui Zhang , Yi Zhou

In this survey, we will explore the interaction between secure multiparty computation and the area of machine learning. Recent advances in secure multiparty computation (MPC) have significantly improved its applicability in the realm of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Taobo Liao , Taoran Li , Prathamesh Nadkarni

Complex machine learning (ML) inference algorithms like recurrent neural networks (RNNs) use standard functions from math libraries like exponentiation, sigmoid, tanh, and reciprocal of square root. Although prior work on secure 2-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Deevashwer Rathee , Mayank Rathee , Rahul Kranti Kiran Goli , Divya Gupta , Rahul Sharma , Nishanth Chandran , Aseem Rastogi

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed to provide privacy protection for individuals by limiting information leakage from the aggregated data. Two well-known models of DP are the central model and the local model. The former requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yucheng Fu , Tianhao Wang

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in a variety of machine learning applications applied to rich user data on the cloud. However, this approach introduces a number of privacy and efficiency challenges, as the cloud operator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Seyed Ali Osia , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ali Taheri , Kleomenis Katevas , Hamid R. Rabiee , Nicholas D. Lane , Hamed Haddadi

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

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

Secure multiparty computation (MPC) allows data owners to train machine learning models on combined data while keeping the underlying training data private. The MPC threat model either considers an adversary who passively corrupts some…

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