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This report evaluates the performance impact of enabling Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs for large language model (LLM) inference tasks. We benchmark the overhead introduced by TEE mode across various LLMs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jianwei Zhu , Hang Yin , Peng Deng , Aline Almeida , Shunfan Zhou

With the increased usage of AI accelerators on mobile and edge devices, on-device machine learning (ML) is gaining popularity. Thousands of proprietary ML models are being deployed today on billions of untrusted devices. This raises serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Zhichuang Sun , Ruimin Sun , Changming Liu , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Long Lu , Somesh Jha

Large-scale systems that compute analytics over a fleet of devices must achieve high privacy and security standards while also meeting data quality, usability, and resource efficiency expectations. We present a next-generation federated…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on converged Cloud and High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. However, as LLMs handle confidential inputs and are fine-tuned on costly, proprietary datasets, their heightened…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Marcin Chrapek , Marcin Copik , Etienne Mettaz , Torsten Hoefler

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the essential components for various commercialized machine learning services, such as Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS). Recent studies show that machine learning services face severe privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Xiaoyong Yuan , Leah Ding , Lan Zhang , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Recent advances in Transformer models, e.g., large language models (LLMs), have brought tremendous breakthroughs in various artificial intelligence (AI) tasks, leading to their wide applications in many security-critical domains. Due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jiaqi Xue , Yifei Zhao , Mengxin Zheng , Fan Yao , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou

Today, machine learning is widely applied in sensitive, security-related, and financially lucrative applications. Model extraction attacks undermine current business models where a model owner sells model access, e.g., via MLaaS APIs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jonas Sander , Anja Rabich , Nick Mahling , Felix Maurer , Jonah Heller , Qifan Wang , Thomas Eisenbarth , David Oswald

On-device machine learning (ML) introduces new security concerns about model privacy. Storing valuable trained ML models on user devices exposes them to potential extraction by adversaries. The current mainstream solution for on-device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zikai Mao , Lingchen Zhao , Lei Xu , Wentao Dong , Shenyi Zhang , Cong Wang , Qian Wang

A number of trusted execution environments (TEEs) have been proposed by both academia and industry. However, most of them require specific hardware or firmware changes and are bound to specific hardware vendors (such as Intel, AMD, ARM, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yuekai Jia , Shuang Liu , Wenhao Wang , Yu Chen , Zhengde Zhai , Shoumeng Yan , Zhengyu He

The distributed (federated) LLM is an important method for co-training the domain-specific LLM using siloed data. However, maliciously stealing model parameters and data from the server or client side has become an urgent problem to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Wei Huang , Yinggui Wang , Anda Cheng , Aihui Zhou , Chaofan Yu , Lei Wang

Decision tree (DT) is a widely used machine learning model due to its versatility, speed, and interpretability. However, for privacy-sensitive applications, outsourcing DT training and inference to cloud platforms raise concerns about data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Qifan Wang , Shujie Cui , Lei Zhou , Ye Dong , Jianli Bai , Yun Sing Koh , Giovanni Russello

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect confidentiality and integrity of trusted applications by creating an isolated environment for executing code. Prior work has shown that users may feel more comfortable sharing data when they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-27 McKenna McCall , Carolina Carreira , Miguel Flores , Lorrie Faith Cranor

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) protect the integrity and confidentiality of running code and its associated data. Nevertheless, TEEs' integrity protection does not extend to the state saved on disk. Furthermore, modern cloud-native…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Ardhi Putra Pratama Hartono , Andrey Brito , Christof Fetzer

Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads are quickly moving from datacenters onto edge devices, for latency, privacy, or energy reasons. While datacenter networks can be protected using conventional cybersecurity measures, edge neural networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihailo Isakov , Vijay Gadepally , Karen M. Gettings , Michel A. Kinsy

Heterogeneous collaborative computing with NPU and CPU has received widespread attention due to its substantial performance benefits. To ensure data confidentiality and integrity during computing, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Husheng Han , Xinyao Zheng , Yuanbo Wen , Yifan Hao , Erhu Feng , Ling Liang , Jianan Mu , Xiaqing Li , Tianyun Ma , Pengwei Jin , Xinkai Song , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Xing Hu

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and trusted execution environments (TEE) are two approaches to provide confidentiality during data processing. Each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses. In certain scenarios, computations can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Romain de Laage

Protecting the privacy of input data is of growing importance as machine learning methods reach new application domains. In this paper, we provide a unified training and inference framework for large DNNs while protecting input privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Hanieh Hashemi , Yongqin Wang , Murali Annavaram

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel SGX and ARM TrustZone, provide isolated regions of CPU and memory for secure computation and are increasingly used to protect sensitive data and code across diverse application domains.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuqing Niu , Jieke Shi , Ruidong Han , Ye Liu , Chengyan Ma , Yunbo Lyu , David Lo

The widening availability of hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) has been accelerating the adaptation of new applications using TEEs. Recent studies showed that a cloud application consists of multiple distributed software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Joongun Park , Seunghyo Kang , Sanghyeon Lee , Taehoon Kim , Jongse Park , Youngjin Kwon , Jaehyuk Huh

The classification service over a stream of data is becoming an important offering for cloud providers, but users may encounter obstacles in providing sensitive data due to privacy concerns. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Qifan Wang , Shujie Cui , Lei Zhou , Ocean Wu , Yonghua Zhu , Giovanni Russello