{"title":"Efficient Evaluation of Activation Functions over Encrypted Data","authors":"Patricia Thaine, S. Gorbunov, Gerald Penn","doi":"10.1109/SPW.2019.00022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We describe a method for approximating any bounded activation function given encrypted input data. The utility of our method is exemplified by simulating it within two typical machine learning tasks: namely, a Variational Autoencoder that learns a latent representation of MNIST data, and an MNIST image classifier.","PeriodicalId":125351,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2019 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPW.2019.00022","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We describe a method for approximating any bounded activation function given encrypted input data. The utility of our method is exemplified by simulating it within two typical machine learning tasks: namely, a Variational Autoencoder that learns a latent representation of MNIST data, and an MNIST image classifier.