Google presented HEIR, an open-source compiler toolchain that can convert pretrained models to operate on homomorphically encrypted inputs.
New Runtime reading: The mechanism changes the privacy trade-off: a server can compute on ciphertext and return an encrypted result without seeing the underlying input. The remaining constraint is cost and latency, and Google's examples are demonstrations rather than proof that every workload is production-ready.
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