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Clément Thorens
dblp:383/8104
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
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
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hardware security and side channels › trusted execution environments
accelerator TEE |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025 |
Hardware security and side channels
trusted execution environments |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025 |
Cloud and datacenter computing › cloud security
confidential computing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025 |
Embedded and real-time systems
memory isolation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 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 |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPU · SP 2025 |
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures › machine learning accelerator › DNN inference
LLM inference |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | 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
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Guardain: Protecting Emerging Generative AI Workloads on Heterogeneous NPUabstractDriven 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 |
SP | 2 |