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Private inference using homomorphic encryption has gained a great attention to leverage powerful predictive models, e.g., deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), in the area where data privacy is crucial, such as in healthcare or medical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyeri Roh , Woo-Seok Choi

Modern cryptographic methods for implementing privacy-preserving LLMs such as \gls{HE} require the LLMs to have a polynomial form. Forming such a representation is challenging because transformers include non-polynomial components, such as…

Recursive (looped) Transformers decouple computational depth from parameter depth by repeatedly applying shared layers, providing an explicit architectural primitive for iterative refinement and latent reasoning. However, early looped…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chengting Yu , Xiaobo Shu , Yadao Wang , Yizhen Zhang , Haoyi Wu , You Wu , Rujiao Long , Ziheng Chen , Yuchi Xu , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng

With the growing use of Transformer models hosted on cloud platforms to offer inference services, privacy concerns are escalating, especially concerning sensitive data like investment plans and bank account details. Secure Multi-Party…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jinglong Luo , Yehong Zhang , Zhuo Zhang , Jiaqi Zhang , Xin Mu , Hui Wang , Yue Yu , Zenglin Xu

In this work, we present a novel matrix-encoding method that is particularly convenient for neural networks to make predictions in a privacy-preserving manner using homomorphic encryption. Based on this encoding method, we implement a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 John Chiang

Recent advances in machine learning, specifically transformer architecture, have led to significant advancements in commercial domains. These powerful models have demonstrated superior capability to learn complex relationships and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Matthew L. Olson , Shusen Liu , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Bogdan Kustowski , Weng-Keen Wong , Rushil Anirudh

Long-term time-series forecasting (LTTF) has become a pressing demand in many applications, such as wind power supply planning. Transformer models have been adopted to deliver high prediction capacity because of the high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Yan Li , Xinjiang Lu , Haoyi Xiong , Jian Tang , Jiantao Su , Bo Jin , Dejing Dou

As machine learning (ML) models become increasingly deployed through cloud infrastructures, the confidentiality of user data during inference poses a significant security challenge. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has emerged as a compelling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tejaswini Bollikonda

The fusion of LiDARs and cameras has been increasingly adopted in autonomous driving for perception tasks. The performance of such fusion-based algorithms largely depends on the accuracy of sensor calibration, which is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuxuan Xiao , Yao Li , Chengzhen Meng , Xingchen Li , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

This paper presents an efficient framework for private Transformer inference that combines Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) to protect data privacy. Existing methods often leverage HE for linear layers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tianshi Xu , Wen-jie Lu , Jiangrui Yu , Chen Yi , Chenqi Lin , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

The size and compute characteristics of modern large language models have led to an increased interest in developing specialized kernels tailored for particular training and inference workloads. Existing kernels primarily optimize for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Aniruddha Nrusimha , William Brandon , Mayank Mishra , Yikang Shen , Rameswar Panda , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Yoon Kim

With the development of gene sequencing technology, an explosive growth of gene data has been witnessed. And the storage of gene data has become an important issue. Traditional gene data compression methods rely on general software like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhanbei Cui , Yu Liao , Tongda Xu , Yan Wang

The processing of sensitive user data using deep learning models is an area that has gained recent traction. Existing work has leveraged homomorphic encryption (HE) schemes to enable computation on encrypted data. An early work was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Han Xuanyuan , Francisco Vargas , Stephen Cummins

Learning representations on large graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature. Transformers recently have shown promising performance on small graphs thanks to its global attention for capturing all-pair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Qitian Wu , Kai Yang , Hengrui Zhang , David Wipf , Junchi Yan

To ensure safe clinical integration, deep learning models must provide more than just high accuracy; they require dependable uncertainty quantification. While current Medical Vision Transformers perform well, they frequently struggle with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Mohammed Maaz Sibhai , Abedalrhman Alkhateeb , Saad B. Ahmed

The prevalent use of Transformer-like models, exemplified by ChatGPT in modern language processing applications, underscores the critical need for enabling private inference essential for many cloud-based services reliant on such models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiangrui Xu , Qiao Zhang , Rui Ning , Chunsheng Xin , Hongyi Wu

Federated learning enables multiple, distributed participants (potentially on different clouds) to collaborate and train machine/deep learning models by sharing parameters/gradients. However, sharing gradients, instead of centralizing data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 K. R. Jayaram , Archit Verma , Ashish Verma , Gegi Thomas , Colin Sutcher-Shepard

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

Transformer has been popular in recent crowd counting work since it breaks the limited receptive field of traditional CNNs. However, since crowd images always contain a large number of similar patches, the self-attention mechanism in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hui Lin , Zhiheng Ma , Xiaopeng Hong , Qinnan Shangguan , Deyu Meng

The privacy concerns of providing deep learning inference as a service have underscored the need for private inference (PI) protocols that protect users' data and the service provider's model using cryptographic methods. Recently proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Karthik Garimella , Nandan Kumar Jha , Zahra Ghodsi , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen