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Zero-knowledge proofs allow verification of computations without revealing private information. However, existing systems require memory proportional to the computation size, which has historically limited use in large-scale applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Logan Nye

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) provers remain costly because multi-scalar multiplication (MSM) and number-theoretic transforms (NTTs) dominate runtime as they need significant computation. AI ASICs such as TPUs provide massive matrix throughput…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jianming Tong , Jingtian Dang , Simon Langowski , Tianhao Huang , Asra Ali , Jeremy Kun , Jevin Jiang , Srinivas Devadas , Tushar Krishna

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) frameworks have the potential to revolutionize the handling of sensitive data in various domains. However, deploying ZKP frameworks with real-world data presents several challenges, including scalability,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Piergiuseppe Mallozzi

We live in an era of information and it is very important to handle the exchange of information. While sending data to an authorized source, we need to protect it from unauthorized sources, changes, and authentication. ZKP technique can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Lavish Saluja , Ashutosh Bhatia

In the current digital landscape, supply chains have transformed into complex networks driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), necessitating enhanced data sharing and processing capabilities to ensure traceability and transparency.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Amir Jabbari , Gowri Ramachandran , Sidra Malik , Raja Jurdak

Privacy concerns in machine learning systems have grown significantly with the increasing reliance on sensitive user data for training large-scale models. This paper introduces a novel framework combining Probably Approximately Correct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Guilhem Repetto , Nojan Sheybani , Gabrielle De Micheli , Farinaz Koushanfar

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that allows a prover to convince a verifier of the validity of a statement without leaking any further information. As an efficient variant of ZKP, non-interactive…

This paper introduces the zk-IoT framework, a novel approach to enhancing the security of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems through the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) on blockchain platforms. Our framework ensures the integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Gholamreza Ramezan , Ehsan Meamari

Generative AI, exemplified by models like transformers, has opened up new possibilities in various domains but also raised concerns about fairness, transparency and reliability, especially in fields like medicine and law. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Over recent decades, machine learning has significantly advanced network communication, enabling improved decision-making, user behavior analysis, and fault detection. Decentralized approaches, where participants exchange computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhibo Xing , Zijian Zhang , Ziang Zhang , Zhen Li , Meng Li , Jiamou Liu , Zongyang Zhang , Yi Zhao , Qi Sun , Liehuang Zhu , Giovanni Russello

This paper explores how zero-knowledge proofs can enhance Bitcoin's functionality and privacy. First, we consider Proof-of-Reserve schemes: by using zk-STARKs, a custodian can prove its Bitcoin holdings are more than a predefined threshold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yusuf Ozmiş

Since the concern of privacy leakage extremely discourages user participation in sharing data, federated learning has gradually become a promising technique for both academia and industry for achieving collaborative learning without leaking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zhibo Xing , Zijian Zhang , Meng Li , Jiamou Liu , Liehuang Zhu , Giovanni Russello , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) systems have surged attention and held a fundamental role in contemporary cryptography. Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (zk-SNARK) protocols dominate the ZKP usage, implemented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qizhe Yang , Boxuan Liang , Hao Chen , Guoqiang Li

Zero-knowledge proofs have always provided a clear solution when it comes to conveying information from a prover to a verifier or vice versa without revealing essential information about the process. Advancements in zero-knowledge have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Aritra Banerjee , Michael Clear , Hitesh Tewari

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) mixers are one of the most widely-used blockchain privacy solutions, operating on top of smart contract-enabled blockchains. We find that ZKP mixers are tightly intertwined with the growing number of Decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zhipeng Wang , Stefanos Chaliasos , Kaihua Qin , Liyi Zhou , Lifeng Gao , Pascal Berrang , Ben Livshits , Arthur Gervais

Classical software verification and validation techniques, such as procedural audits, formal methods, or model documentation, are the traditional mechanisms used to achieve the verifiable accountability now required by regulations like the…

Zero-knowledge proofs (zk-Proofs) are communication protocols by which a prover can demonstrate to a verifier that it possesses a solution to a given public problem without revealing the content of the solution. Arbitrary computations can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Armando Cruz

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are widely applied in digital economies, such as cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, for establishing trust and ensuring privacy between untrusted parties. However, almost all ZKPs rely on unproven…

In principle, explanations are intended as a way to increase trust in machine learning models and are often obligated by regulations. However, many circumstances where these are demanded are adversarial in nature, meaning the involved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chhavi Yadav , Evan Monroe Laufer , Dan Boneh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are increasingly deployed in domains such as privacy-preserving authentication, verifiable computation, and secure finance. However, authoring ZK programs remains challenging: unlike conventional software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhantong Xue , Pingchuan Ma , Zhaoyu Wang , Yuguang Zhou , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shuai Wang , Juergen Rahmel