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20222026
most citedHAAC: A Hardware-Software Co-Design to Accelerate Garbled Circuits

21 citations · 64 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AR2026

When Proofs Meet Hardware: Comparing NTT and SumCheck in Zero-Knowledge Systems

Jianqiao Mo, Alhad Daftardar, Barath GaneshKumar +5

In the ZKP community, it has long been discussed that the SumCheck protocol is asymptotically more efficient than the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT), requiring only arithm…

cs.AR2025

zkPHIRE: A Programmable Accelerator for ZKPs over HIgh-degRee, Expressive Gates

Alhad Daftardar, Jianqiao Mo, Joey Ah-kiow +3

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) have emerged as a powerful tool for secure and privacy-preserving computation. ZKPs enable one party to convince another of a statement's validity with…

cs.CR2025

EinHops: Einsum Notation for Expressive Homomorphic Operations on RNS-CKKS Tensors

Karthik Garimella, Austin Ebel, Brandon Reagen

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is an encryption scheme that allows for computation to be performed directly on encrypted data, effectively closing the loop on secure and outsou…

cs.AR2025★ 1 cited

MTU: The Multifunction Tree Unit for Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Jianqiao Mo, Alhad Daftardar, Joey Ah-Kiow +4

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are critical for privacy-preserving techniques and verifiable computation. Many ZKP protocols rely on key kernels such as the SumCheck protocol and Mer…

cs.CR2025

HE-LRM: Encrypted Deep Learning Recommendation Models using Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Karthik Garimella, Austin Ebel, Gabrielle De Micheli +1

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation directly on encrypted data and privacy-preserving neural inference in the cloud. Existing solutions focus on models with dens…

cs.AR2025★ 12 cited

Need for zkSpeed: Accelerating HyperPlonk for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Alhad Daftardar, Jianqiao Mo, Joey Ah-kiow +4

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are rapidly gaining importance in privacy-preserving and verifiable computing. ZKPs enable a proving party to prove the truth of a statement to a verif…

cs.CR2024

Osiris: A Systolic Approach to Accelerating Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Austin Ebel, Brandon Reagen

In this paper we show how fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) can be accelerated using a systolic architecture. We begin by analyzing FHE algorithms and then develop systolic or sys…

cs.AR2024★ 18 cited

SZKP: A Scalable Accelerator Architecture for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Alhad Daftardar, Brandon Reagen, Siddharth Garg

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are an emergent paradigm in verifiable computing. In the context of applications like cloud computing, ZKPs can be used by a client (called the verifie…

cs.CR2024

NTTSuite: Number Theoretic Transform Benchmarks for Accelerating Encrypted Computation

Juran Ding, Yuanzhe Liu, Lingbin Sun +1

Privacy concerns have thrust privacy-preserving computation into the spotlight. Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a cryptographic system that enables computation to occur directly on…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

Orion: A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Framework for Deep Learning

Austin Ebel, Karthik Garimella, Brandon Reagen

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has the potential to substantially improve privacy and security by enabling computation directly on encrypted data. This is especially true with…

cs.CR2023

CiFlow: Dataflow Analysis and Optimization of Key Switching for Homomorphic Encryption

Negar Neda, Austin Ebel, Benedict Reynwar +1

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a privacy-preserving computation technique that enables computation on encrypted data. Today, the potential of HE remains largely unrealized as it is…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Privacy Preserving In-memory Computing Engine

Haoran Geng, Jianqiao Mo, Dayane Reis +5

Privacy has rapidly become a major concern/design consideration. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Garbled Circuits (GC) are privacy-preserving techniques that support computations o…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

Towards Fast and Scalable Private Inference

Jianqiao Mo, Karthik Garimella, Negar Neda +2

Privacy and security have rapidly emerged as first order design constraints. Users now demand more protection over who can see their data (confidentiality) as well as how it is use…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

TREBUCHET: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator for Deep Computation

David Bruce Cousins, Yuriy Polyakov, Ahmad Al Badawi +21

Secure computation is of critical importance to not only the DoD, but across financial institutions, healthcare, and anywhere personally identifiable information (PII) is accessed.…

cs.AR2023

RPU: The Ring Processing Unit

Deepraj Soni, Negar Neda, Naifeng Zhang +14

Ring-Learning-with-Errors (RLWE) has emerged as the foundation of many important techniques for improving security and privacy, including homomorphic encryption and post-quantum cr…

cs.AR2022★ 21 cited

HAAC: A Hardware-Software Co-Design to Accelerate Garbled Circuits

Jianqiao Mo, Jayanth Gopinath, Brandon Reagen

Privacy and security have rapidly emerged as priorities in system design. One powerful solution for providing both is privacy-preserving computation, where functions are computed d…