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Cloud computing is an important part of today's world because offloading computations is a method to reduce costs. In this paper, we investigate computing the Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a deep-learning generative model in the field of Machine Learning (ML) that involves training two Neural Networks (NN) using a sizable data set. In certain fields, such as medicine, the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Ignjat Pejic , Rui Wang , Kaitai Liang

Activation function is a key component in deep learning that performs non-linear mappings between the inputs and outputs. Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) has been the most popular activation function across the deep learning community.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Hock Hung Chieng , Noorhaniza Wahid , Pauline Ong

Privacy-preserving analysis of confidential data can increase the value of such data and even improve peoples' lives. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) can enable privacy-preserving analysis. However, FHE adds a large amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Mirko Günther , Lars Schütze , Kilian Becher , Thorsten Strufe , Jeronimo Castrillon

In neural networks, non-linearity is introduced by activation functions. One commonly used activation function is Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU). ReLU has been a popular choice as an activation but has flaws. State-of-the-art functions like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Advait Vagerwal

Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the torus (TFHE) enables computation on encrypted data without decryption, making it a cornerstone of secure and confidential computing. Despite its potential in privacy preserving machine learning, secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mayank Kumar , Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou

With the rapid increase in cloud computing, concerns surrounding data privacy, security, and confidentiality also have been increased significantly. Not only cloud providers are susceptible to internal and external hacks, but also in some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-27 M. Sadegh Riazi , Kim Laine , Blake Pelton , Wei Dai

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has made it possible to perform addition and multiplication operations on encrypted data. Using FHE in control thus has the advantage that control effort for a plant can be calculated remotely without ever…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Pieter Stobbe , Twan Keijzer , Riccardo M. G. Ferrari

Legacy encryption systems depend on sharing a key (public or private) among the peers involved in exchanging an encrypted message. However, this approach poses privacy concerns. Especially with popular cloud services, the control over the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Abbas Acar , Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Mauro Conti

Large language model (LLM) based services are primarily structured as client-server interactions, with clients sending queries directly to cloud providers that host LLMs. This approach currently compromises data privacy as all queries must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Karthik Garimella , Negar Neda , Austin Ebel , Nandan Kumar Jha , Brandon Reagen

It has been a long standing problem to securely outsource computation tasks to an untrusted party with integrity and confidentiality guarantees. While fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a promising technique that allows computations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Wenhao Wang , Yichen Jiang , Qintao Shen , Weihao Huang , Hao Chen , Shuang Wang , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Kai Chen , Kristin Lauter , Dongdai Lin

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) facilitates secure computations on encrypted data but imposes significant demands on memory bandwidth and computational power. While current FHE accelerators focus on optimizing computation, they often…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Dewan Saiham , Di Wu , Sazadur Rahman

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

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computations directly on encrypted data, but its high computational cost remains a significant barrier. Writing efficient FHE code is a complex task requiring cryptographic expertise, and finding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Bilel Sefsaf , Abderraouf Dandani , Abdessamed Seddiki , Arab Mohammed , Eduardo Chielle , Michail Maniatakos , Riyadh Baghdadi

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables direct computation on encrypted data, making it a crucial technology for privacy protection. However, FHE suffers from significant performance bottlenecks. In this context, GPU acceleration offers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Wang , Haoqi He , Lutan Zhao , Peinan Li , Zhihao Li , Dan Meng , Rui Hou

E-health record (EHR) contains a vast amount of continuously growing medical data and enables medical institutions to access patient health data conveniently.This provides opportunities for medical data mining which has important…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yue Han , Jinguang Han , Liqun Chen , Chao Sun

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) solutions are gaining widespread popularity. Among these, many rely on homomorphic encryption (HE) that offers confidentiality of the model and the data, but at the cost of large latency and memory…

We present mmFHE, the first system that enables fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) for end-to-end mmWave radar sensing. mmFHE encrypts raw range profiles on a lightweight edge device and executes the entire mmWave signal-processing and ML…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tanvir Ahmed , Yixuan Gao , Adnan Armouti , Rajalakshmi Nandakumar

In this paper, we present the demonstration of training a four-layer neural network entirely using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), supporting both single-output and multi-output classification tasks in a non-interactive setting. A key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 John Chiang

Privacy protection has become an increasing concern in modern machine learning applications. Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) has attracted growing research attention, with approaches such as secure multiparty computation (MPC)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Pengzhi Huang , Kiwan Maeng , G. Edward Suh