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FuseFSS introduces a compiler-based approach to secure LLM inference that consolidates bespoke operator protocols into a unified pipeline, addressing the performance bottlenecks of fixed-point nonlinearities in function secret sharing systems. By optimizing batched evaluations and interval lookups, the method achieves a 1.24x to 1.50x speedup while reducing online communication overhead and key generation time. This advancement offers a practical path toward deploying privacy-preserving inference at scale without sacrificing model accuracy.
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FuseFSS: Efficient Secure LLM Inference with Function Secret Sharing

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arXiv:2606.09551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two-server secure inference allows a client to query a hosted large language model (LLM) without revealing prompts or embeddings. Recent GPU systems based on function secret sharing (FSS) make linear layers efficient, but fixed-point nonlinearities and helper operations remain a bottleneck because each operator is typically implemented as a bespoke protocol with its own comparisons, wrap-around corrections, and preprocessing material. We present FuseFSS, a compiler that replaces per-operator protocol design with a single compilation pipeline. For each scalar fixed-point operator, a compact specification lists its interval partition, low-degree arithmetic pieces, and required predicate bits. The compiler emits two batched FSS evaluations on the public masked value: one packed comparison that returns all predicate bits, and one vector interval lookup that returns the active coefficients and constants. Compared to the current state-of-the-art FSS-based GPU secure inference, FuseFSS preserves accuracy while achieving a $1.24\times$--$1.50\times$ end-to-end speedup and reducing online communication by $9\%$--$16\%$ on BERT and GPT-style models; preprocessing is also lighter, with $14\%$--$23\%$ lower key-generation time and $20\%$--$24\%$ smaller keys.

Abstract:Two-server secure inference allows a client to query a hosted large language model (LLM) without revealing prompts or embeddings. Recent GPU systems based on function secret sharing (FSS) make linear layers efficient, but fixed-point nonlinearities and helper operations remain a bottleneck because each operator is typically implemented as a bespoke protocol with its own comparisons, wrap-around corrections, and preprocessing material. We present FuseFSS, a compiler that replaces per-operator protocol design with a single compilation pipeline. For each scalar fixed-point operator, a compact specification lists its interval partition, low-degree arithmetic pieces, and required predicate bits. The compiler emits two batched FSS evaluations on the public masked value: one packed comparison that returns all predicate bits, and one vector interval lookup that returns the active coefficients and constants. Compared to the current state-of-the-art FSS-based GPU secure inference, FuseFSS preserves accuracy while achieving a $1.24\times$--$1.50\times$ end-to-end speedup and reducing online communication by $9\%$--$16\%$ on BERT and GPT-style models; preprocessing is also lighter, with $14\%$--$23\%$ lower key-generation time and $20\%$--$24\%$ smaller keys.

Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2606.09551 [cs.CR]

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