AI & ML
Interflow: Breaking the Offline-Online Barrier for Private AI at the Edge
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arXiv:2610.27431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) offers a promising path toward bringing powerful AI services to the edge without exposing sensitive user data. However, its practical deployment remains constrained by the high communication, computation, and data-movement costs of secure multi-party computation (MPC), particularly during nonlinear inference. Existing MPC systems typically decouple input-independent correlated randomness generation from online execution, creating substantial memory pressure to buffer single-use cryptographic data. Moreover, limited storage can force a stop-and-refill execution pattern that repeatedly stalls the pipeline to replenish these buffers, bringing randomness generation back onto the critical path. We propose Interflow, an algorithm-hardware co-design that rethinks this separation by batch-wise processing and pipelining correlated-randomness generation with online execution: while the current batch consumes pre-generated randomness to execute secure nonlinear operations, correlation generation proceeds concurrently for the next batch. By leveraging interleaved execution, efficient data movement, and hardware acceleration, the design transforms preprocessing from a serialized, storage-intensive offline phase into a continuously overlapped pipeline that generates correlated randomness closer to the point of consumption, reducing memory footprint and data movement overhead. Implemented on the Zynq UltraScale+ ZCU102, Interflow improves nonlinear evaluation throughput by up to 1.55x for CNN operators and 1.48x for transformer operators. It achieves up to 1.26x speedup for ResNet-50 and up to 1.21x speedup for BERT-base, and reduces memory footprint by up to 37%, compared with baseline frameworks.
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