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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

This paper introduces efficient modifications to neural network-based sequence processing approaches, laying new grounds for scalable privacy-preserving machine learning under Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Transformers are now…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rickard Brännvall , Tony Zhang , Henrik Forsgren , Andrei Stoian , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

Recently cloud-based graph convolutional network (GCN) has demonstrated great success and potential in many privacy-sensitive applications such as personal healthcare and financial systems. Despite its high inference accuracy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Ran Ran , Nuo Xu , Wei Wang , Gang Quan , Jieming Yin , Wujie Wen

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a promising cryptographic technique for enabling secure collaborative machine learning in the cloud. However, support for homomorphic computation on ciphertexts under multiple keys is inefficient. Current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Asma Aloufi , Peizhao Hu

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables users to securely outsource both the storage and computation of sensitive data to untrusted servers. Not only does HE offer an attractive solution for security in cloud systems, but lattice-based HE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Kaustubh Shivdikar , Gilbert Jonatan , Evelio Mora , Neal Livesay , Rashmi Agrawal , Ajay Joshi , Jose Abellan , John Kim , David Kaeli

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computation on encrypted data, addressing privacy concerns in cloud computing. However, the high computational cost of HE operations, particularly matrix multiplication (MM), remains a major…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhihan Xu , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor K. Prasanna

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic method that guarantees the privacy and security of user data during computation. FHE algorithms can perform unlimited arithmetic computations directly on encrypted data without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Charles Gouert , Vinu Joseph , Steven Dalton , Cedric Augonnet , Michael Garland , Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos

Performing smart computations in a context of cloud computing and big data is highly appreciated today. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a smart category of encryption schemes that allows working with the data in its encrypted form. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Ahmed El-Yahyaoui , Mohamed Dafir Ech-Chrif El Kettani

Due to the rising privacy demand in data mining, Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is receiving more and more attention recently for its capability to do computations over the encrypted field. By using the HE technique, it is possible to securely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Junyi Li , Heng Huang

Medical imaging data contain sensitive patient information requiring strong privacy protection. Many analytical setups require data to be sent to a server for inference purposes. Homomorphic encryption (HE) provides a solution by allowing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Jonghun Kim , Gyeongdeok Jo , Sinyoung Ra , Hyunjin Park

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

Softmax can become a computational bottleneck in the Transformer model's Multi-Head Attention (MHA) block, particularly in small models under low-precision inference, where exponentiation and normalization incur significant overhead. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dimitrios Danopoulos , Enrico Lupi , Michael Kagan , Maurizio Pierini

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables the processing of encrypted data without decrypting it. FHE has garnered significant attention over the past decade as it supports secure outsourcing of data processing to remote cloud services.…

In this paper, a secure Convolutional Neural Network classifier is proposed using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). The secure classifier provides a user with the ability to out-source the computations to a powerful cloud server and/or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows direct computations on encrypted data. Despite numerous research efforts, the practicality of HE schemes remains to be demonstrated. In this regard, the enormous size of ciphertexts involved in HE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Dayane Reis , Jonathan Takeshita , Taeho Jung , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

The proliferation of machine learning services in the last few years has raised data privacy concerns. Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables inference using encrypted data but it incurs 100x-10,000x memory and runtime overheads. Secure deep…

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

As the performance gains from accelerating quantized matrix multiplication plateau, the softmax operation becomes the critical bottleneck in Transformer inference. This bottleneck stems from two hardware limitations: (1) limited data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zisheng Ye , Xiaoyu He , Maoyuan Song , Guoliang Qiu , Chao Liao , Chen Wu , Yonggang Sun , Zhichun Li , Xiaoru Xie , Yuanyong Luo , Hu Liu , Pinyan Lu , Heng Liao

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows an untrusted party to evaluate arithmetic cir- cuits, i.e., perform additions and multiplications on encrypted data, without having the decryp- tion key. One of the most efficient class of FHE…

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