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Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has gained important attraction as a means for deploying powerful predictive models, offering ease of use that enables organizations to leverage advanced analytics without substantial investments in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Fatima Ezzeddine , Rinad Akel , Ihab Sbeity , Silvia Giordano , Marc Langheinrich , Omran Ayoub

The privacy vulnerabilities of the federated learning (FL) paradigm, primarily caused by gradient leakage, have prompted the development of various defensive measures. Nonetheless, these solutions have predominantly been crafted for and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Abhinav Kumar , George Torres , Noah Guzinski , Gaurav Panwar , Reza Tourani , Satyajayant Misra , Marcin Spoczynski , Mona Vij , Nageen Himayat

Feature engineering is the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from raw data via data mining techniques and is a key step to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms. In the multi-party feature engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Pei Fang , Zhendong Cai , Hui Chen , QingJiang Shi

Private data, being larger and quality-higher than public data, can greatly improve large language models (LLM). However, due to privacy concerns, this data is often dispersed in multiple silos, making its secure utilization for LLM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 JiaYing Zheng , HaiNan Zhang , LingXiang Wang , WangJie Qiu , HongWei Zheng , ZhiMing Zheng

We propose soft Hoeffding trees (SoHoT) as a new differentiable and transparent model for possibly infinite and changing data streams. Stream mining algorithms such as Hoeffding trees grow based on the incoming data stream, but they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Kirsten Köbschall , Lisa Hartung , Stefan Kramer

With the advent of machine learning in applications of critical infrastructure such as healthcare and energy, privacy is a growing concern in the minds of stakeholders. It is pivotal to ensure that neither the model nor the data can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Dominique Mercier , Adriano Lucieri , Mohsin Munir , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

The proliferation of IoT devices has significantly increased network vulnerabilities, creating an urgent need for effective Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Machine Learning-based IDS (ML-IDS) offer advanced detection capabilities but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Elvin Li , Zhengli Shang , Onat Gungor , Tajana Rosing

We present a practical framework to deploy privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) applications in untrusted clouds based on a trusted execution environment (TEE). Specifically, we shield unmodified PyTorch ML applications by running…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Dayeol Lee , Dmitrii Kuvaiskii , Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner , Mona Vij

A typical setup in many machine learning scenarios involves a server that holds a model and a user that possesses data, and the challenge is to perform inference while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. Private Inference has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Netanel Raviv

As database deployments shift toward cloud platforms and edge devices, thin clients need to securely retrieve sensitive records without leaking their query intent or metadata to the proxies that mediate access. Oblivious Transfer (OT) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aydin Abadi , Yvo Desmedt

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prevalent distributed machine learning scheme that enables collaborative model training without aggregating raw data. Cloud service providers further embrace Federated Learning as a Service (FLaaS),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yu Liu , Zibo Wang , Yifei Zhu , Chen Chen

A protocol for two-party secure function evaluation (2P-SFE) aims to allow the parties to learn the output of function $f$ of their private inputs, while leaking nothing more. In a sense, such a protocol realizes a trusted oracle that…

The serverless platform aims to facilitate cloud applications' straightforward deployment, scaling, and management. Unfortunately, the distributed nature of serverless computing makes it difficult to port traditional security tools…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chuang Li , Lanfang Huang , Dian He , Yanhua Wen , Gang Liu , Lixin Duan

This paper explores the privacy of cloud outsourced Model Predictive Control (MPC) for a linear system with input constraints. In our cloud-based architecture, a client sends her private states to the cloud who performs the MPC computation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Andreea B. Alexandru , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

The widespread adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained scenarios has driven the development of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) system. However, this approach is susceptible to privacy leakage, as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jinyu Lu , Xinrong Sun , Yunting Tao , Tong Ji , Fanyu Kong , Guoqiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to allow collaborative training of machine learning (ML) models among multiple parties where each party can keep its data private. In this paradigm, only model updates, such as model weights or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , James Joshi , Heiko Ludwig

Deep learning as a service (DLaaS) has been intensively studied to facilitate the wider deployment of the emerging deep learning applications. However, DLaaS may compromise the privacy of both clients and cloud servers. Although some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Shangyu Xie , Bingyu Liu , Yuan Hong

To develop Smart City, the growing popularity of Machine Learning (ML) that appreciates high-quality training datasets generated from diverse IoT devices raises natural questions about the privacy guarantees that can be provided in such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Liehuang Zhu , Xiangyun Tang , Meng Shen , Jie Zhang , Xiaojiang Du

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX), ensure the confidentiality and integrity of user applications when using cloud computing resources. However, in the multi-party cloud computing scenario,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Linan Tian , Yunke Shen , Zhiqiang Li

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative model training across feature-partitioned devices, yet its reliance on device-server information exchange introduces significant communication overhead and privacy risks. Downlink…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jianing Zhang , Evan Chen , Dong-Jun Han , Chaoyue Liu , Christopher G. Brinton