Pacifo is a framework that adapts fine‑tuning strategies to efficiently run the ResNet20 model using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). It introduces a public‑private layer partitioning scheme and an efficient ReLU approximation, reducing private layers and costly FHE operations during inference. Compared to state‑of‑the‑art FHE implementations, Pacifo achieves a 3.7–21.7× speedup while preserving 95–99 % of the original plaintext model accuracy.
arXiv:2509.01253v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In contemporary cloud-based services, protecting users' sensitive data and ensuring the confidentiality of the server's model are critical. F...
arXiv:2606. 16359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables privacy-preserving machine learning but incurs extreme computational and memory overhead.
HEAT introduces a fine‑tuning method that treats the number of iterations used to approximate nonlinearities in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) as learnable parameters, allowing them to co‑adapt with model weights. By optimizing iteration counts per nonlinearity, HEAT reduces the required iterations, bootstraps, and overall latency for encrypted GPT‑2 decoding while improving decode agreement. The approach achieves a 3.1× reduction in iterations, a 1.6× reduction in bootstraps, and a 1.4× speed‑up in end‑to‑end latency without changing the model architecture or requiring retraining from scratch.
arXiv:2607. 06612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while retaining data locality, thereby enhancing user privacy.
arXiv:2609.16898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Private deep neural network (DNN) inference based on hybrid homomorphic encryption (HE) and multi-party computation (MPC) can protect user data with...
Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while retaining data locality, thereby enhancing user privacy. However, traditional FL frameworks rely on a centralized aggregation server and assume honest-but-curious clients, making them susceptible to both server-side inference and client-side poisoning attacks.
arXiv:2609. 01945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning enables multiple clients to train a shared model while keeping their local datasets isolated.
arXiv:2412. 12640v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The increasing demand for data privacy, alongside the benefits of aggregating data from networked devices, has catalyzed the emergence of federated learning (FL).
HE-Guardrail is a framework that applies homomorphic encryption to enforce guardrails against jailbreak attacks during encrypted large language model inference. It evaluates guardrail mechanisms—Llama Guard, JBShield, and GradSafe—directly on encrypted data, deciding whether to return the model’s response to the client. The approach preserves confidentiality while closely matching the decisions of plaintext guardrails, offering varied security-efficiency-utility trade‑offs.
arXiv:2607. 29221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We address the challenge of securely and efficiently outsourcing AI computations from a trusted but computationally weak client to an untrusted but powerful server, in the setting where the client holds both the input and the model, and the server must learn neither.
arXiv:2607. 23478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) provides strong cryptographic guarantees for private inference, but deploying transformer models under FHE remains prohibitively expensive.
arXiv:2601. 14033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning models are increasingly served behind APIs.