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FuseFSS: Efficient Secure LLM Inference with Function Secret Sharing

Yuhan Ma, Yong Li, Stefan Schmid

Abstract

Two-server secure inference allows a client to query a hosted large language model (LLM) without revealing prompts or embeddings. Recent GPU systems based on function secret sharing (FSS) make linear layers efficient, but fixed-point nonlinearities and helper operations remain a bottleneck because each operator is typically implemented as a bespoke protocol with its own comparisons, wrap-around corrections, and preprocessing material. We present FuseFSS, a compiler that replaces per-operator protocol design with a single compilation pipeline. For each scalar fixed-point operator, a compact specification lists its interval partition, low-degree arithmetic pieces, and required predicate bits. The compiler emits two batched FSS evaluations on the public masked value: one packed comparison that returns all predicate bits, and one vector interval lookup that returns the active coefficients and constants. Compared to the current state-of-the-art FSS-based GPU secure inference, FuseFSS preserves accuracy while achieving a $1.24\times$--$1.50\times$ end-to-end speedup and reducing online communication by 9%--16% on BERT and GPT-style models; preprocessing is also lighter, with 14%--23% lower key-generation time and 20%--24% smaller keys.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings{
ma2026fusefss,
title={Fuse{FSS}: Efficient Secure {LLM} Inference with Function Secret Sharing},
author={Yuhan Ma and Yong Li and Stefan Schmid},
booktitle={Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=WpUpj8DrVB}
}