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We present a new family of mobile hybrid vision networks, called iFormer, with a focus on optimizing latency and accuracy on mobile applications. iFormer effectively integrates the fast local representation capacity of convolution with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chuanyang Zheng

The traditional Transformer model encounters challenges with variable-length input sequences, particularly in Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC), leading to efficiency and scalability concerns. To overcome this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Muhammad Ahmad , Muhammad Hassaan Farooq Butt , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distifano

This paper proposes Impala, a new cryptographic protocol for private inference in the client-cloud setting. Impala builds upon recent solutions that combine the complementary strengths of homomorphic encryption (HE) and secure multi-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Woo-Seok Choi , Brandon Reagen , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

One limitation of existing Transformer-based models is that they cannot handle very long sequences as input since their self-attention operations exhibit quadratic time and space complexity. This problem becomes especially acute when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuzhen Mao , Martin Ester , Ke Li

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

Due to the rising privacy demand in data mining, Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is receiving more and more attention recently for its capability to do computations over the encrypted field. By using the HE technique, it is possible to securely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Junyi Li , Heng Huang

Local feature matching is a computationally intensive task at the subpixel level. While detector-based methods coupled with feature descriptors struggle in low-texture scenes, CNN-based methods with a sequential extract-to-match pipeline,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Qing Wang , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , Kunyu Peng , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Credit card fraud is a problem continuously faced by financial institutions and their customers, which is mitigated by fraud detection systems. However, these systems require the use of sensitive customer transaction data, which introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 David Nugent

In today's machine learning landscape, fine-tuning pretrained transformer models has emerged as an essential technique, particularly in scenarios where access to task-aligned training data is limited. However, challenges surface when data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Prajwal Panzade , Daniel Takabi , Zhipeng Cai

Transformer models gain popularity because of their superior inference accuracy and inference throughput. However, the transformer is computation-intensive, causing a long inference time. The existing works on transformer inference…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yuan Feng , Hyeran Jeon , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Qing Li , Dong Li

Inference centers need more data to have a more comprehensive and beneficial learning model, and for this purpose, they need to collect data from data providers. On the other hand, data providers are cautious about delivering their datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Mohammad Ali Jamshidi , Hadi Veisi , Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian , Mohammad Reza Aref

Predictive models play a crucial role in the financial industry, enabling risk prediction, fraud detection, and personalized recommendations, where slight changes in core model performance can result in billions of dollars in revenue or…

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

Currently, one main research line in designing a more efficient vision transformer is reducing the computational cost of self attention modules by adopting sparse attention or using local attention windows. In contrast, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haokui Zhang , Wenze Hu , Xiaoyu Wang

Transformers excel across domains, yet their quadratic attention complexity poses a barrier to scaling. Random-feature attention, as in Performers, can reduce this cost to linear in the sequence length by approximating the softmax kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Amirhossein Farzam , Hossein Mobahi , Nolan Andrew Miller , Luke Sernau

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

Recently, Transformer-based encoder-decoder models have demonstrated strong performance in multilingual speech recognition. However, the decoder's autoregressive nature and large size introduce significant bottlenecks during inference.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Yunkyu Lim , Jihwan Park , Hyung Yong Kim , Hanbin Lee , Byeong-Yeol Kim

Learning multiscale Transformer models has been evidenced as a viable approach to augmenting machine translation systems. Prior research has primarily focused on treating subwords as basic units in developing such systems. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Bei Li , Yi Jing , Xu Tan , Zhen Xing , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

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

The trend towards delegating data processing to a remote party raises major concerns related to privacy violations for both end-users and service providers. These concerns have attracted the attention of the research community, and several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Youssef Gahi , Mouhcine Guennoun , Zouhair Guennoun , Khalil El-khatib