AutoReP: Automatic ReLU Replacement for Fast Private Network Inference
AutoReP: Automatic ReLU Replacement for Fast Private Network Inference
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10.1109/iccv51070.2023.00478
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2023-08
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Hongwu Peng;Shaoyi Huang;Tong Zhou;Yukui Luo;Chenghong Wang;Zigeng Wang;Jiahui Zhao;Xiaowei Xie;Ang Li;Tony Geng;Kaleel Mahmood;Wujie Wen;Xiaolin Xu;Caiwen Ding
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Hongwu Peng;Shaoyi Huang;Tong Zhou;Yukui Luo;Chenghong Wang;Zigeng Wang;Jiahui Zhao;Xiaowei Xie;Ang Li;Tony Geng;Kaleel Mahmood;Wujie Wen;Xiaolin Xu;Caiwen Ding
The growth of the Machine-Learning-As-A-Service (MLaaS) market has highlighted clients’ data privacy and security issues. Private inference (PI) techniques using cryptographic primitives offer a solution but often have high computation and communication costs, particularly with non-linear operators like ReLU. Many attempts to reduce ReLU operations exist, but they may need heuristic threshold selection or cause substantial accuracy loss. This work introduces AutoReP, a gradient-based approach to lessen non-linear operators and alleviate these issues. It automates the selection of ReLU and polynomial functions to speed up PI applications and introduces distribution-aware polynomial approximation (DaPa) to maintain model expressivity while accurately approximating ReLUs. Our experimental results demonstrate significant accuracy improvements of 6.12% (94.31%, 12.9K ReLU budget, CIFAR-10), 8.39% (74.92%, 12.9K ReLU budget, CIFAR-100), and 9.45% (63.69%, 55K ReLU budget, Tiny-ImageNet) over current state-of-the-art methods, e.g., SNL. Morever, AutoReP is applied to EfficientNet-B2 on ImageNet dataset, and achieved 75.55% accuracy with 176.1 × ReLU budget reduction. The codes are shared on Github1.