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In this work, we propose a balanced multi-component and multi-layer neural network (MMNN) structure to accurately and efficiently approximate functions with complex features, in terms of both degrees of freedom and computational cost. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shijun Zhang , Hongkai Zhao , Yimin Zhong , Haomin Zhou

In this work, we present novel protocols over rings for semi-honest secure three-party computation (3PC) and malicious four-party computation (4PC) with one corruption. While most existing works focus on improving total communication…

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We study a collaborative revenue management problem where multiple decentralized parties agree to share some of their capacities. This collaboration is performed by constructing a large mathematical programming model available to all…

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The structure and weights of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) typically encode and contain very valuable information about the dataset that was used to train the network. One way to protect this information when DNN is published is to perform an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Philip Derbeko , Shlomi Dolev

In this paper, we develop an algorithm for federated principal component analysis (PCA) with emphases on both communication efficiency and data privacy. Generally speaking, federated PCA algorithms based on direct adaptations of classic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Yin Zhang

Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as a core technology to provide learning models to perform complex tasks. Boosted by Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS), the number of applications relying on ML capabilities is ever increasing. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Antoine Boutet , Thomas Lebrun , Jan Aalmoes , Adrien Baud

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based Deep Learning (DL) has achieved great progress in many real-life applications. Meanwhile, due to the complex model structures against strict latency and memory restriction, the implementation of CNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Weicheng Li , Rui Wang , Zhongzhi Luan , Di Huang , Zidong Du , Yunji Chen , Depei Qian

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

Classical Distributed Model Predictive Control (DiMPC) requires multiple iterations to achieve convergence, leading to high computational and communication burdens. This work focuses on the improvement of an iteration-free distributed MPC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Parth R. Brahmbhatt , Hari S. Ganesh , Styliani Avraamidou

We present a relational MPC framework for secure collaborative analytics on private data with no information leakage. Our work targets challenging use cases where data owners may not have private resources to participate in the computation,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-02-04 John Liagouris , Vasiliki Kalavri , Muhammad Faisal , Mayank Varia

The development of artificial intelligence demands that models incrementally update knowledge by Continual Learning (CL) to adapt to open-world environments. To meet privacy and security requirements, Continual Unlearning (CU) emerges as an…

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participating clients to train machine learning models collaboratively by keeping their datasets local and only exchanging model updates. Existing FL protocol designs have been shown to be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong

Rectifier (ReLU) deep neural networks (DNN) and their connection with piecewise affine (PWA) functions is analyzed. The paper is an effort to find and study the possibility of representing explicit state feedback policy of model predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Federated learning has become increasingly widespread due to its ability to train models collaboratively without centralizing sensitive data. While most research on FL emphasizes privacy-preserving techniques during training, the evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Cem Ata Baykara , Ali Burak Ünal , Mete Akgün

Federated Learning Networks (FLNs) have been envisaged as a promising paradigm to collaboratively train models among mobile devices without exposing their local privacy data. Due to the need for frequent model updates and communications,…

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Privacy-preserving computation (PPC) methods, such as secure multiparty computation (MPC) and homomorphic encryption (HE), are deployed increasingly often to guarantee data confidentiality in computations over private, distributed data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tariq Bontekoe , Dimka Karastoyanova , Fatih Turkmen

We introduce SPLASH units, a class of learnable activation functions shown to simultaneously improve the accuracy of deep neural networks while also improving their robustness to adversarial attacks. SPLASH units have both a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Mohammadamin Tavakoli , Forest Agostinelli , Pierre Baldi

Multi-task learning aims to improve generalization performance of multiple prediction tasks by appropriately sharing relevant information across them. In the context of deep neural networks, this idea is often realized by hand-designed…

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Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep neural networks, particularly as recent advancements have led to increasingly subtle implantation, making the defense more challenging. Existing defense mechanisms typically rely on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yukai Xu , Yujie Gu , Kouichi Sakurai

Deep Neural Network (DNN), one of the most powerful machine learning algorithms, is increasingly leveraged to overcome the bottleneck of effectively exploring and analyzing massive data to boost advanced scientific development. It is not a…

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