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We present novel homomorphic encryption schemes for integer arithmetic, intended for use in secure single-party computation in the cloud. These schemes are capable of securely computing only low degree polynomials homomorphically, but this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-27 James Dyer , Martin Dyer , Jie Xu

Softmax is widely used in deep learning to map some representation to a probability distribution. As it is based on exp/log functions that are relatively expensive in multi-party computation, Mohassel and Zhang (2017) proposed a simpler…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Marcel Keller , Ke Sun

Leveled Homomorphic Encryption (LHE) offers a potential solution that could allow sectors with sensitive data to utilize the cloud and securely deploy their models for remote inference with Deep Neural Networks (DNN). However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Moustafa AboulAtta , Matthias Ossadnik , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

Homomorphic encryption has largely been studied in context of public key cryptosystems. But there are applications which inherently would require symmetric keys. We propose a symmetric key encryption scheme with fully homomorphic evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Iti Sharma

Homomorphic encryption is a cryptographic paradigm allowing to compute on encrypted data, opening a wide range of applications in privacy-preserving data manipulation, notably in AI. Many of those applications require significant linear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Youngjin Bae , Jung Hee Cheon , Guillaume Hanrot , Jai Hyun Park , Damien Stehlé

In recent years, although some homomorphic encryption algorithms have been proposed to provide additive homomorphic encryption and multiplicative homomorphic encryption. However, similarity measures are required for searches and queries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abel C. H. Chen

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a privacy-preserving technique that enables computation directly over ciphertext. Unfortunately, a key challenge for HE is that implementations can be impractically slow and have limits on computation that can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hsuan Hsiao , Vincent Lee , Brandon Reagen , Armin Alaghi

Homomorphic encryption is a powerful cryptographic tool that enables secure computations on the private data. It evaluates any function for any operation securely on the encrypted data without knowing its corresponding plaintext. For…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Giovanni Giuseppe Grimaldi

This paper proposes a new homomorphic functional encryption using modular multiplications over a hidden ring. Unlike traditional homomorphic encryption where users can only passively perform ciphertext addition or multiplication, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Randy Kuang , Maria Perepechaenko , Ryan Toth

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly important for the success of products and services, especially considering the growing amount and availability of data. This also holds for areas handling sensitive data, e.g. applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Martin Nocker , David Drexel , Michael Rader , Alessio Montuoro , Pascal Schöttle

Secure inference enables privacy-preserving machine learning by leveraging cryptographic protocols that support computations on sensitive user data without exposing it. However, integrating cryptographic protocols with large language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhiyu He , Maojiang Wang , Xinwen Gao , Yuchuan Luo , Lin Liu , Shaojing Fu

The softmax function is widely used in artificial neural networks for the multiclass classification problems, where the softmax transformation enforces the output to be positive and sum to one, and the corresponding loss function allows to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Shaoshi Sun , Zhenyuan Zhang , BoCheng Huang , Pengbin Lei , Jianlin Su , Shengfeng Pan , Jiarun Cao

Federated learning based on homomorphic encryption has received widespread attention due to its high security and enhanced protection of user data privacy. However, the characteristics of encrypted computation lead to three challenging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Chang Li , Xiaojian Li , Tianbo Wang

Homomorphic encryption enables arbitrary computation over data while it remains encrypted. This privacy-preserving feature is attractive for machine learning, but requires significant computational time due to the large overhead of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Edward Chou , Josh Beal , Daniel Levy , Serena Yeung , Albert Haque , Li Fei-Fei

Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables arithmetic operations to be performed directly on encrypted data. It is essential for privacy-preserving applications such as machine learning, medical diagnosis, and financial data analysis. In popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sajjad Akherati , Xinmiao Zhang

The requirement for privacy-aware machine learning increases as we continue to use PII (Personally Identifiable Information) within machine training. To overcome these privacy issues, we can apply Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 William J Buchanan , Hisham Ali

Federated learning has become increasingly widespread due to its ability to train models collaboratively without centralizing sensitive data. While most research on FL emphasizes privacy-preserving techniques during training, the evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Cem Ata Baykara , Ali Burak Ünal , Mete Akgün

Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows computations to be directly carried out on ciphertexts and is essential to privacy-preserving computing, such as neural network inference, medical diagnosis, and financial data analysis. Only addition and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sajjad Akherati , Yok Jye Tang , Xinmiao Zhang

More and more orgainizations and institutions make efforts on using external data to improve the performance of AI services. To address the data privacy and security concerns, federated learning has attracted increasing attention from both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Wuxing Xu , Hao Fan , Kaixin Li , Kai Yang

Every commercially available, state-of-the-art neural network consume plain input data, which is a well-known privacy concern. We propose a new architecture based on homomorphic encryption, which allows the neural network to operate on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Marcos Florencio , Luiz Alencar , Bianca Lima