### APAS: Application-Specific Accelerators for RLWE-based Homomorphic Linear Transformations

Song Bian, Dur E Shahwar Kundi, Kazuma Hirozawa, Weiqiang Liu, and Takashi Sato

##### Abstract

Recently, the application of multi-party secure computing schemes based on homomorphic encryption in the field of machine learning attracts attentions across the research fields. Previous studies have demonstrated that secure protocols adopting packed additive homomorphic encryption (PAHE) schemes based on the ring learning with errors (RLWE) problem exhibit significant practical merits, and are particularly promising in enabling efficient secure inference in machine-learning-as-a-service applications. In this work, we introduce a new technique for performing homomorphic linear transformation (HLT) over PAHE ciphertexts. Using the proposed HLT technique, homomorphic convolutions and inner products can be executed without the use of number theoretic transform and the rotate-and-add algorithms that were proposed in existing works. To maximize the efficiency of the HLT technique, we propose APAS, a hardware-software co-design framework consisting of approximate arithmetic units for the hardware acceleration of HLT. In the experiments, we use actual neural network architectures as benchmarks to show that APAS can improve the computational and communicational efficiency of homomorphic convolution by 8x and 3x, respectively, with an energy reduction of up to 26x as compared to the ASIC implementations of existing methods.

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Applications
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Minor revision.IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
DOI
10.1109/TIFS.2021.3114032
Keywords
homomorphic encryptionprivacy-preserving machine learninglearning with errorsring learning with errorsneural networks
Contact author(s)
sbian @ easter kuee kyoto-u ac jp
liuweiqiang @ nuaa edu cn
History
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/1284

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1284,
author = {Song Bian and Dur E Shahwar Kundi and Kazuma Hirozawa and Weiqiang Liu and Takashi Sato},
title = {APAS: Application-Specific Accelerators for RLWE-based Homomorphic Linear Transformations},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/1284},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1109/TIFS.2021.3114032},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1284}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1284}
}

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