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It is common practice to use data containing personal information to build predictive models in the framework of empirical risk minimization (ERM). While these models can be highly accurate in prediction, sharing the results from these…

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In large language model-based agents, memory serves as a critical capability for achieving personalization by storing and utilizing users' information. Although some previous studies have adopted memory to implement user personalization,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zeyu Zhang , Yang Zhang , Haoran Tan , Rui Li , Xu Chen

Machine learning systems can produce personalized outputs that allow an adversary to infer sensitive input attributes at inference time. We introduce Robust Privacy (RP), an inference-time privacy notion inspired by certified robustness: if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jiankai Jin , Xiangzheng Zhang , Zhao Liu , Deyue Zhang , Quanchen Zou

With the growing use of large language models (LLMs) hosted on cloud platforms to offer inference services, privacy concerns about the potential leakage of sensitive information are escalating. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Guang Yan , Yuhui Zhang , Zimu Guo , Lutan Zhao , Xiaojun Chen , Chen Wang , Wenhao Wang , Dan Meng , Rui Hou

We study the problem of private online learning, specifically, online prediction from experts (OPE) and online convex optimization (OCO). We propose a new transformation that transforms lazy online learning algorithms into private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hilal Asi , Tomer Koren , Daogao Liu , Kunal Talwar

The problem of Oblivious RAM (ORAM) has traditionally been studied in a single-server setting, but more recently the multi-server setting has also been considered. Yet it is still unclear whether the multi-server setting has any inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-05 T-H. Hubert Chan , Jonathan Katz , Kartik Nayak , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Elaine Shi

The remarkable proliferation of deep learning across various industries has underscored the importance of data privacy and security in AI pipelines. As the evolution of sophisticated Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) threatens the secrecy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Eugenio Lomurno , Alberto Archetti , Francesca Ausonio , Matteo Matteucci

The Quantum Private Query is a quantum cryptographic protocol to recover information from a database, preserving both user and data privacy: the user can test whether someone has retained information on which query was asked, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 F. De Martini , V. Giovannetti , S. Lloyd , L. Maccone , E. Nagali , L. Sansoni , F. Sciarrino

We propose AriaNN, a low-interaction privacy-preserving framework for private neural network training and inference on sensitive data. Our semi-honest 2-party computation protocol (with a trusted dealer) leverages function secret sharing, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Théo Ryffel , Pierre Tholoniat , David Pointcheval , Francis Bach

Active learning (AL) is a widely used technique for optimizing data labeling in machine learning by iteratively selecting, labeling, and training on the most informative data. However, its integration with formal privacy-preserving methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kristian Schwethelm , Johannes Kaiser , Jonas Kuntzer , Mehmet Yigitsoy , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Massive human-related data is collected to train neural networks for computer vision tasks. A major conflict is exposed relating to software engineers between better developing AI systems and distancing from the sensitive training data. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Fusheng Hao , Fengxiang He , Yikai Wang , Fuxiang Wu , Jing Zhang , Jun Cheng , Dacheng Tao

The Personal AI landscape is currently dominated by "Black Box" Retrieval-Augmented Generation. While standard vector databases offer statistical matching, they suffer from a fundamental lack of accountability: when an AI hallucinates or…

Confidential computing on GPUs, like NVIDIA H100, mitigates the security risks of outsourced Large Language Models (LLMs) by implementing strong isolation and data encryption. Nonetheless, this encryption incurs a significant performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yifan Tan , Cheng Tan , Zeyu Mi , Haibo Chen

The objective of machine learning is to extract useful information from data, while privacy is preserved by concealing information. Thus it seems hard to reconcile these competing interests. However, they frequently must be balanced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Zhanglong Ji , Zachary C. Lipton , Charles Elkan

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

The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has exponentially increased the demand for efficient serving systems. With growing requests and context lengths, key-value (KV)-related operations, including attention computation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Lian Liu , Shixin Zhao , Yutian Zhou , Yintao He , Mengdi Wang , Yinhe Han , Ying Wang

Research groups face persistent challenges in capturing, storing, and retrieving knowledge that is distributed across team members. Although structured data intended for analysis and publication is often well managed, much of a group's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chandler Campbell , Bernie Boscoe , Tuan Do

We consider a problem where mutually untrusting curators possess portions of a vertically partitioned database containing information about a set of individuals. The goal is to enable an authorized party to obtain aggregate (statistical)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Bing-Rong Lin , Ye Wang , Shantanu Rane

Social key recovery mechanisms enable users to recover their vaults with the help of trusted contacts, or trustees, avoiding the need for a single point of trust or memorizing complex strings. However, existing mechanisms overlook the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shailesh Mishra , Simone Colombo , Pasindu Tennage , Martin Burkhart , Bryan Ford

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the world with the sparks of artificial general intelligence (AGI). One opinion, especially from some startups working on LLMs, argues that an LLM with nearly unlimited context length can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Jingbo Shang , Zai Zheng , Jiale Wei , Xiang Ying , Felix Tao , Mindverse Team