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Clément Thorens

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 39% Cloud and datacenter computing · 30% Embedded and real-time systems · 30%
Network and information security
1 paper
Hardware security and side channels · 100%

Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Hardware security and side channels › trusted execution environments
accelerator TEE
0.912025
Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025
Hardware security and side channels
trusted execution environments
0.912025
Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025
Cloud and datacenter computing › cloud security
confidential computing
0.912025
Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025
Embedded and real-time systems
memory isolation
0.912025
Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures › machine learning accelerator › neural network accelerator
neural processing unit
0.912025
Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures › machine learning accelerator › DNN inference
LLM inference
0.312025
Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

task attestation · 1.7delegation-based memory semantics · 1.7authenticated encryption · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU
abstract
Driven by recent advances in large language models (LLMs), generative AI applications have become the dominant workload for the modern cloud. Specialized hardware accelerators, such as GPUs, NPUs, and TPUs, play a key role in AI adoption due to their superior performance over general-purpose CPUs. AI models and the data are often highly sensitive and come from mutually distrusting parties. Existing industry-standard CPU-based TEEs, such as Intel SGX or AMD SEV, do not adequately protect these accelerators. Device-TEEs like Nvidia-CC only address tightly coupled CPU-GPU systems with a proprietary solution requiring TEE on the host CPU side. On the other hand, existing academic proposals target specific CPU-TEE platforms. To address this gap, we propose Guardain,a confidential computing architecture for discrete NPU devices that requires no trust in the host system. Guardainsecures data, model parameters, and operator binaries through authenticated encryption. Guardainuses delegation-based memory semantics to ensure isolation from the host software stack, while task attestation guarantees strong model integrity. Our G Uardainimplementation and evaluation with state-of-the-art LLMs such as Llama2 and Llama3 shows that Guardainintroduces minimal overhead with no changes in the AI software stack.
Aritra Dhar, Clément Thorens, Lara Magdalena Lazier, Lukas Cavigelli
SP2