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The past year has witnessed the increasing popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs). Their unprecedented scale and associated high hardware cost have impeded their broader adoption, calling for efficient hardware designs. With the large…

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A function inlining optimization is a widely used transformation in modern compilers, which replaces a call site with the callee's body in need. While this transformation improves performance, it significantly impacts static features such…

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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities through test-time scaling approaches, particularly when fine-tuned with chain-of-thought (CoT) data distilled from more powerful large reasoning models (LRMs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yang Xiao , Jiashuo Wang , Ruifeng Yuan , Chunpu Xu , Kaishuai Xu , Wenjie Li , Pengfei Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied for their remarkable capability of content generation. However, the practical use of open-source LLMs is hindered by high resource requirements, making deployment expensive and limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenjie Qu , Yuguang Zhou , Yongji Wu , Tingsong Xiao , Binhang Yuan , Yiming Li , Jiaheng Zhang

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) offers a practical foundation for privacy-preserving machine learning at the edge. However, current MPC systems rely heavily on communication and computation-intensive primitives-such as secure…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhuoran Li , Hanieh Totonchi Asl , Yifei Cai , Ebrahim Nouri , Danella Zhao

Cooperative intelligence (CI) is expected to become an integral element in next-generation networks because it can aggregate the capabilities and intelligence of multiple devices. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a popular…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Tingting Yuan , Hwei-Ming Chung , Xiaoming Fu

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been gaining a lot of interest due to their adaptability and extensibility in emerging applications, including communication networks. It is anticipated that ZSM networks will be able to support…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Sunder Ali Khowaja , Parus Khuwaja , Kapal Dev , Hussam Al Hamadi , Engin Zeydan

Fine-tuning a general-purpose large language model (LLM) for a specific domain or task has become a routine procedure for ordinary users. However, fine-tuning is known to remove the safety alignment features of the model, even when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kathleen C. Fraser , Hillary Dawkins , Isar Nejadgholi , Svetlana Kiritchenko

Recent progress in Language Models (LMs) has dramatically advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP), excelling at tasks like text generation, summarization, and question answering. However, their inference remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Adarsh Prasad Behera , Jaya Prakash Champati , Roberto Morabito , Sasu Tarkoma , James Gross

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

Fine-tuning has emerged as a critical process in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for specific downstream tasks, enabling these models to achieve state-of-the-art performance across various domains. However, the fine-tuning process…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hao Du , Shang Liu , Lele Zheng , Yang Cao , Atsuyoshi Nakamura , Lei Chen

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) based on cryptographic protocols has emerged as a promising paradigm to protect user data privacy in cloud-based machine learning services. While it achieves formal privacy protection, PPML often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenxuan Zeng , Tianshi Xu , Yi Chen , Yifan Zhou , Mingzhe Zhang , Jin Tan , Cheng Hong , Meng Li

As large language models (LLMs) become ubiquitous, privacy concerns pertaining to inference inputs keep growing. In this context, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has emerged as a primary cryptographic solution to provide non-interactive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jaiyoung Park , Sejin Park , Jai Hyun Park , Jung Ho Ahn , Jung Hee Cheon , Guillaume Hanrot , Jung Woo Kim , Minje Park , Damien Stehlé

Recent advancements in privacy-preserving machine learning are paving the way to extend the benefits of ML to highly sensitive data that, until now, have been hard to utilize due to privacy concerns and regulatory constraints.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Hidde Lycklama , Alexander Viand , Nicolas Küchler , Christian Knabenhans , Anwar Hithnawi

Transformer based Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely used in many fields, and the efficiency of LLM inference becomes hot topic in real applications. However, LLMs are usually complicatedly designed in model structure with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hui Wu , Yi Gan , Feng Yuan , Jing Ma , Wei Zhu , Yutao Xu , Hong Zhu , Yuhua Zhu , Xiaoli Liu , Jinghui Gu , Peng Zhao

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

Large language models are increasingly integrated with external environments, tools, and agents like ChatGPT plugins to extend their capability beyond language-centric tasks. However, today's LLM inference systems are designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Reyna Abhyankar , Zijian He , Vikranth Srivatsa , Hao Zhang , Yiying Zhang

Efficiency and communication cost remain critical bottlenecks for practical Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML). Most existing frameworks rely on fixed-point arithmetic for strong security, which introduces significant precision loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tianle Tao , Shizhao Peng , Haogang Zhu

Fine-tuning on task-specific data to boost downstream performance is a crucial step for leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). However, previous studies have demonstrated that fine-tuning the models on several adversarial samples or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Han Shen , Pin-Yu Chen , Payel Das , Tianyi Chen

Performing machine learning (ML) computation on private data while maintaining data privacy, aka Privacy-preserving Machine Learning~(PPML), is an emergent field of research. Recently, PPML has seen a visible shift towards the adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nishat Koti , Mahak Pancholi , Arpita Patra , Ajith Suresh