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most citedHEQuant: Marrying Homomorphic Encryption and Quantization for Communication-Efficient Private Inference

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

All Work And No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy: Understanding and Preventing Catastrophic Strategy Collapse in RLVR

Qiyuan Huang, Tianshi Xu, Meng Li

During post-training of large language models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), GRPO-style algorithms can exhibit severe late-stage collapse. Promp…

cs.AI2026

Adapting the Interface, Not the Model: Runtime Harness Adaptation for Deterministic LLM Agents

Tianshi Xu, Huifeng Wen, Meng Li

LLM agents are shaped not only by their language models, but also by the runtime harness that mediates observation, tool use, action execution, feedback interpretation, and traject…

cs.CR2026

UFO: Unlocking Ultra-Efficient Quantized Private Inference with Protocol and Algorithm Co-Optimization

Wenxuan Zeng, Chao Yang, Tianshi Xu +4

Private convolutional neural network (CNN) inference based on secure two-party computation (2PC) suffers from high communication and latency overhead, especially from convolution l…

cs.LG2026

CLEANER: Self-Purified Trajectories Boost Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Tianshi Xu, Yuteng Chen, Meng Li

Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empowered Large Language Models (LLMs) to utilize tools like Python interpreters for complex problem-solving. However, for parameter-constra…

cs.CR2025

CryptoMoE: Privacy-Preserving and Scalable Mixture of Experts Inference via Balanced Expert Routing

Yifan Zhou, Tianshi Xu, Jue Hong +2

Private large language model (LLM) inference based on cryptographic primitives offers a promising path towards privacy-preserving deep learning. However, existing frameworks only s…

cs.RO2025

EfficientNav: Towards On-Device Object-Goal Navigation with Navigation Map Caching and Retrieval

Zebin Yang, Sunjian Zheng, Tong Xie +6

Object-goal navigation (ObjNav) tasks an agent with navigating to the location of a specific object in an unseen environment. Embodied agents equipped with large language models (L…

cs.CR2025

Breaking the Layer Barrier: Remodeling Private Transformer Inference with Hybrid CKKS and MPC

Tianshi Xu, Wen-jie Lu, Jiangrui Yu +4

This paper presents an efficient framework for private Transformer inference that combines Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) to protect data priv…

cs.AR2025

Ironman: Accelerating Oblivious Transfer Extension for Privacy-Preserving AI with Near-Memory Processing

Chenqi Lin, Kang Yang, Tianshi Xu +6

With the wide application of machine learning (ML), privacy concerns arise with user data as they may contain sensitive information. Privacy-preserving ML (PPML) based on cryptogra…

cs.CR2024

PrivQuant: Communication-Efficient Private Inference with Quantized Network/Protocol Co-Optimization

Tianshi Xu, Shuzhang Zhong, Wenxuan Zeng +2

Private deep neural network (DNN) inference based on secure two-party computation (2PC) enables secure privacy protection for both the server and the client. However, existing secu…

cs.CR2024

FastQuery: Communication-efficient Embedding Table Query for Private LLM Inference

Chenqi Lin, Tianshi Xu, Zebin Yang +3

With the fast evolution of large language models (LLMs), privacy concerns with user queries arise as they may contain sensitive information. Private inference based on homomorphic…

cs.CR2024

PrivCirNet: Efficient Private Inference via Block Circulant Transformation

Tianshi Xu, Lemeng Wu, Runsheng Wang +1

Homomorphic encryption (HE)-based deep neural network (DNN) inference protects data and model privacy but suffers from significant computation overhead. We observe transforming the…

cs.CR2024

EQO: Exploring Ultra-Efficient Private Inference with Winograd-Based Protocol and Quantization Co-Optimization

Wenxuan Zeng, Tianshi Xu, Meng Li +1

Private convolutional neural network (CNN) inference based on secure two-party computation (2PC) suffers from high communication and latency overhead, especially from convolution l…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

HEQuant: Marrying Homomorphic Encryption and Quantization for Communication-Efficient Private Inference

Tianshi Xu, Meng Li, Runsheng Wang

Secure two-party computation with homomorphic encryption (HE) protects data privacy with a formal security guarantee but suffers from high communication overhead. While previous wo…

cs.CR2023

Falcon: Accelerating Homomorphically Encrypted Convolutions for Efficient Private Mobile Network Inference

Tianshi Xu, Meng Li, Runsheng Wang +1

Efficient networks, e.g., MobileNetV2, EfficientNet, etc, achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy with lightweight computation. However, existing homomorphic encryption (HE)-base…