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In order to achieve better performance for point cloud analysis, many researchers apply deeper neural networks using stacked Multi-Layer-Perceptron (MLP) convolutions over irregular point cloud. However, applying dense MLP convolutions over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very popular these days, and are the subject of a very intense investigation. A DNN is made by layers of internal units (or neurons), each of which computes an affine combination of the output of the units in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Matteo Fischetti , Jason Jo

Recently, private inference (PI) has addressed the rising concern over data and model privacy in machine learning inference as a service. However, existing PI frameworks suffer from high computational and communication costs due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yuke Zhang , Dake Chen , Souvik Kundu , Haomei Liu , Ruiheng Peng , Peter A. Beerel

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer the promise of low-power artificial intelligence. However, training deep SNNs from scratch or converting deep artificial neural networks to SNNs without loss of performance has been a challenge.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ana Stanojevic , Stanisław Woźniak , Guillaume Bellec , Giovanni Cherubini , Angeliki Pantazi , Wulfram Gerstner

Privacy-preserving deep neural network (DNN) inference is a necessity in different regulated industries such as healthcare, finance and retail. Recently, homomorphic encryption (HE) has been used as a method to enable analytics while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Moran Baruch , Nir Drucker , Lev Greenberg , Guy Moshkowich

In two-party machine learning prediction services, the client's goal is to query a remote server's trained machine learning model to perform neural network inference in some application domain. However, sensitive information can be obtained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Karthik Garimella , Zahra Ghodsi , Nandan Kumar Jha , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen

Deep learning training training algorithms are a huge success in recent years in many fields including speech, text,image video etc. Deeper and deeper layers are proposed with huge success with resnet structures having around 152 layers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chinmay Rane , Kanishka Tyagi , Michael Manry

The proliferation of deep learning (DL) has led to the emergence of privacy and security concerns. To address these issues, secure Two-party computation (2PC) has been proposed as a means of enabling privacy-preserving DL computation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Hongwu Peng , Shanglin Zhou , Yukui Luo , Nuo Xu , Shijin Duan , Ran Ran , Jiahui Zhao , Shaoyi Huang , Xi Xie , Chenghong Wang , Tong Geng , Wujie Wen , Xiaolin Xu , Caiwen Ding

ReLU, a commonly used activation function in deep neural networks, is prone to the issue of "Dying ReLU". Several enhanced versions, such as ELU, SeLU, and Swish, have been introduced and are considered to be less commonly utilized.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jamshaid Ul Rahman , Rubiqa Zulfiqar , Asad Khan , Nimra

While mobile devices provide ever more compute power, improvements in DRAM bandwidth are much slower. This is unfortunate for large language model (LLM) token generation, which is heavily memory-bound. Previous work has proposed to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Marco Federici , Davide Belli , Mart van Baalen , Amir Jalalirad , Andrii Skliar , Bence Major , Markus Nagel , Paul Whatmough

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning algorithms must balance classification accuracy with data privacy. This can be done using a combination of cryptographic and machine learning tools such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Inbar Helbitz , Shai Avidan

We introduce CryptGPU, a system for privacy-preserving machine learning that implements all operations on the GPU (graphics processing unit). Just as GPUs played a pivotal role in the success of modern deep learning, they are also essential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sijun Tan , Brian Knott , Yuan Tian , David J. Wu

In neural networks, non-linearity is introduced by activation functions. One commonly used activation function is Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU). ReLU has been a popular choice as an activation but has flaws. State-of-the-art functions like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Advait Vagerwal

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) exposes sensitive client data to service providers. Private inference mitigates this risk while preserving model functionality. Despite extensive progress in MPC-based solutions, they remain constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kaiwen Wang , Xiaolin Chang , Junchao Fan , Yuehan Dong

Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted technique, valued for its effectiveness in protecting the privacy of task-specific datasets, making it a critical tool for large language models. However, its effectiveness in Multimodal Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qianshan Wei , Jiaqi Li , Zihan You , Yi Zhan , Kecen Li , Jialin Wu , Xinfeng Li Hengjun Liu , Yi Yu , Bin Cao , Yiwen Xu , Yang Liu , Guilin Qi

We propose AriaNN, a low-interaction privacy-preserving framework for private neural network training and inference on sensitive data. Our semi-honest 2-party computation protocol (with a trusted dealer) leverages function secret sharing, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Théo Ryffel , Pierre Tholoniat , David Pointcheval , Francis Bach

The choice of activation function fundamentally shapes the representational capacity and parameter efficiency of deep neural networks, yet most widely used activations lack rigorous theoretical guarantees on these properties. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ibrahim Albool , Malak Gamal El-Din , Salma Elmalaki , Yasser Shoukry

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows users to offload machine learning inference on untrusted servers without having to share their privacy-sensitive data. Despite their strong security properties, MPC-based private inference has not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kiwan Maeng , G. Edward Suh

Many high-stakes applications require machine learning models that protect user privacy and provide well-calibrated, accurate predictions. While Differential Privacy (DP) is the gold standard for protecting user privacy, standard DP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ossi Räisä , Stratis Markou , Matthew Ashman , Wessel P. Bruinsma , Marlon Tobaben , Antti Honkela , Richard E. Turner

Lately, differential privacy (DP) has been introduced in cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning (CMARL) to safeguard the agents' privacy against adversarial inference during knowledge sharing. Nevertheless, we argue that the noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Md Tamjid Hossain , Hung La