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With the rapid surge in the prevalence of Large Language Models (LLMs), individuals are increasingly turning to conversational AI for initial insights across various domains, including health-related inquiries such as disease diagnosis.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Aditya Malik , Nalini Ratha , Bharat Yalavarthi , Tilak Sharma , Arjun Kaushik , Charanjit Jutla

Outsourced computation for neural networks allows users access to state of the art models without needing to invest in specialized hardware and know-how. The problem is that the users lose control over potentially privacy sensitive data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Robert Podschwadt , Daniel Takabi , Peizhao Hu

With the popularity of cloud computing and machine learning, it has been a trend to outsource machine learning processes (including model training and model-based inference) to cloud. By the outsourcing, other than utilizing the extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Pinglan Liu , Wensheng Zhang

Secure signal processing is becoming a de facto model for preserving privacy. We propose a model based on the Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technique to mitigate security breaches. Our framework provides a method to perform a Fast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

The widespread application of machine learning algorithms is a matter of increasing concern for the data privacy research community, and many have sought to develop privacy-preserving techniques for it. Among existing approaches, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Leonardo Neumann , Antonio Guimarães , Diego F. Aranha , Edson Borin

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) prevails in securing Federated Learning (FL), but suffers from high overhead and adaptation cost. Selective HE methods, which partially encrypt model parameters by a global mask, are expected to protect privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Borui Li , Li Yan , Junhao Han , Jianmin Liu , Lei Yu

With the increasing demands for privacy protection, many privacy-preserving machine learning systems were proposed in recent years. However, most of them cannot be put into production due to their slow training and inference speed caused by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Fei Zheng

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computation on encrypted data without decryption, allowing a great opportunity for privacy-preserving computation. In particular, domains such as healthcare, finance, and government, where data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Matías Mazzanti , Esteban Mocskos , Augusto Vega , Pradip Bose

Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables computation over encrypted data, offering strong privacy guarantees for untrusted computing environments. Practical adoption remains limited by high computational complexity, large ciphertext sizes, and…

The Softmax function is ubiquitous in machine learning, multiple previous works suggested faster alternatives for it. In this paper we propose a way to compute classical Softmax with fewer memory accesses and hypothesize that this reduction…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Maxim Milakov , Natalia Gimelshein

As users increasingly interact with large language models (LLMs) using private information, secure and encrypted communication becomes essential. Homomorphic encryption (HE) provides a principled solution by enabling computation directly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Donghwan Rho , Sieun Seo , Hyewon Sung , Chohong Min , Ernest K. Ryu

Quantization has established itself as the primary approach for decreasing the computational and storage expenses associated with Large Language Models (LLMs) inference. The majority of current research emphasizes quantizing weights and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Moran Shkolnik , Maxim Fishman , Brian Chmiel , Hilla Ben-Yaacov , Ron Banner , Kfir Yehuda Levy

In 2009, Gentry proposed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) scheme, an extremely powerful cryptographic primitive that enables to perform computations, i.e., to evaluate circuits, on encrypted data without decrypting them first.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Fabrice Benhamouda , Tancrède Lepoint , Claire Mathieu , Hang Zhou

This article proposes a comprehensive approach to implementing encryption schemes based on the automorphism group of the Hermitian function field. We utilize a three-parameter group with logarithmic representations outside the group's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Gennady Khalimov , Yevgen Kotukh

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) represents a paradigm shift in cryptography, enabling computation directly on encrypted data and unlocking privacy-critical computation. Despite being increasingly deployed in real platforms, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Rian Adam Rajagede , Yan Solihin

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models without sharing sensitive client data, making it a cornerstone for privacy-critical applications. However, FL faces the dual challenge of ensuring learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yenan Wang , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Elad Michael Schiller

Privacy-preserving solutions enable companies to offload confidential data to third-party services while fulfilling their government regulations. To accomplish this, they leverage various cryptographic techniques such as Homomorphic…

Learning complicated value functions in high dimensional state space by function approximation is a challenging task, partially due to that the max-operator used in temporal difference updates can theoretically cause instability for most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Yaozhong Gan , Zhe Zhang , Xiaoyang Tan

The use of Neural Networks (NNs) for sensitive data processing is becoming increasingly popular, raising concerns about data privacy and security. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has the potential to be used as a solution to preserve data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Ivone Amorim , Eva Maia , Pedro Barbosa , Isabel Praça

Distributed training of deep neural networks has received significant research interest, and its major approaches include implementations on multiple GPUs and clusters. Parallelization can dramatically improve the efficiency of training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Jaehee Jang , Byungook Na , Sungroh Yoon