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Enabling private inference is crucial for many cloud inference services that are based on Transformer models. However, existing private inference solutions can increase the inference latency by more than 60x or significantly compromise the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Dacheng Li , Rulin Shao , Hongyi Wang , Han Guo , Eric P. Xing , Hao Zhang

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

Transformer inference in machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) raises privacy concerns for sensitive user inputs. Prior secure solutions that combine fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and secure multiparty computation (MPC) are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yufan Zhu , Chao Jin , Khin Mi Mi Aung , Xiaokui Xiao

With the increasing deployment of generative machine learning models in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and personalized services, ensuring secure inference has become a critical challenge. Secure multi-party computation (MPC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tianpei Lu , Bingsheng Zhang , Lekun Peng , Bowen Zheng , Lichun Li , Kui Ren

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized numerous fields, yet their adaptation to specialized tasks in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance remains constrained due to the scarcity of accessible training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinglong Luo , Zhuo Zhang , Yehong Zhang , Shiyu Liu , Ye Dong , Hui Wang , Yue Yu , Xun Zhou , Zenglin Xu

With ChatGPT as a representative, tons of companies have began to provide services based on large Transformers models. However, using such a service inevitably leak users' prompts to the model provider. Previous studies have studied secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ye Dong , Wen-jie Lu , Yancheng Zheng , Haoqi Wu , Derun Zhao , Jin Tan , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Tao Wei , Wenguang Chen

Privacy and security have rapidly emerged as first order design constraints. Users now demand more protection over who can see their data (confidentiality) as well as how it is used (control). Here, existing cryptographic techniques for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jianqiao Mo , Karthik Garimella , Negar Neda , Austin Ebel , Brandon Reagen

Transformer models have revolutionized AI, enabling applications like content generation and sentiment analysis. However, their use in Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) raises significant privacy concerns, as centralized servers process…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Yitong Wang , Liangxin Qian , Jun Zhao

It is increasingly important to enable privacy-preserving inference for cloud services based on Transformers. Post-quantum cryptographic techniques, e.g., fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and multi-party computation (MPC), are popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou , Lei Jiang

Due to the rising privacy concerns on sensitive client data and trained models like Transformers, secure multi-party computation (MPC) techniques are employed to enable secure inference despite attendant overhead. Existing works attempt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Haoqi Wu , Wenjing Fang , Yancheng Zheng , Junming Ma , Jin Tan , Yinggui Wang , Lei Wang

Transformer has been successfully used in practical applications, such as ChatGPT, due to its powerful advantages. However, users' input is leaked to the model provider during the service. With people's attention to privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yuanchao Ding , Hua Guo , Yewei Guan , Weixin Liu , Jiarong Huo , Zhenyu Guan , Xiyong Zhang

Transformer models have gained significant attention due to their power in machine learning tasks. Their extensive deployment has raised concerns about the potential leakage of sensitive information during inference. However, when being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhengyi Li , Kang Yang , Jin Tan , Wen-jie Lu , Haoqi Wu , Xiao Wang , Yu Yu , Derun Zhao , Yancheng Zheng , Minyi Guo , Jingwen Leng

Private inference (PI) serves an important role in guaranteeing the privacy of user data when interfacing with proprietary machine learning models such as LLMs. However, PI remains practically intractable due to the massive latency costs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Patrick Yubeaton , Jianqiao Cambridge Mo , Karthik Garimella , Nandan Kumar Jha , Brandon Reagen , Chinmay Hegde , Siddharth Garg

Security of model parameters and user data is critical for Transformer-based services, such as ChatGPT. While recent strides in secure two-party protocols have successfully addressed security concerns in serving Transformer models, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Mu Yuan , Lan Zhang , Xiang-Yang Li

The wide deployment of the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) has raised privacy concerns for both clients and servers. While cryptographic primitives can be employed for secure GPT inference to protect the privacy of both parties,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhengyi Li , Yue Guan , Kang Yang , Yu Feng , Ning Liu , Yu Yu , Jingwen Leng , Minyi Guo

Cryptographically secure neural network inference typically relies on secure computing techniques such as Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), enabling cloud servers to process client inputs without decrypting them. Although prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yukuan Zhang , Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou

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

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

With the increasing demands for privacy protection, many privacy-preserving machine learning systems were proposed in recent years. However, most of them cannot be put into production due to their slow training and inference speed caused by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Fei Zheng
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