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Secure and Efficient <italic>L</italic><sup><italic>p</italic></sup>-Norm Computation for Two-Party Learning Applications

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Ali Arastehfard
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Weiran Liu
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Joshua Lee
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Bingyu Liu
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Xuegang Ban
袁宏 (Yuan Hong)
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Secure norm computation is becoming increasingly important in many real-world learning applications. However, existing cryptographic systems often lack a general framework for securely computing the <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm over private inputs held by different parties. These systems often treat secure norm computation as a black-box process, neglecting to design tailored cryptographic protocols that optimize performance. Moreover, they predominantly focus on the <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm, paying little attention to other popular <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norms (<inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{\infty } $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), which are commonly used in practice, such as in machine learning tasks and location-based services. To the best of our knowledge, we propose the first comprehensive framework for secure two-party <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm computations (<inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{\infty } $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), denoted as Crypto-<inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, designed to be versatile across various applications. We have designed, implemented, and thoroughly evaluated our framework across a wide range of benchmarking applications, state-of-the-art (SOTA) cryptographic protocols, and real-world datasets to validate its effectiveness and practical applicability. In summary, Crypto-<inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> outperforms prior works on secure <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm computation, achieving <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$82\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$271\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$42\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> improvements in runtime while reducing communication overhead by <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$36\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$21\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> for <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$p=1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, 2, and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\infty $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively. Furthermore, we take the first step in adapting our Crypto-<inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L^{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> framework for secure machine learning inference, reducing communication costs by <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> compared to SOTA systems while maintaining comparable runtime and accuracy—and even outperforming them under constrained network conditions. Our source code is available at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/datasec-lab/cryptoLp</uri>
Keywords:
Secure two-party computation
multi-party computation
$L^{p}$ -norm computation
privacy-preserving machine learning
oblivious transfer
secure neural network inference
location-based services
biometric identification

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IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security cover
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