arxiv: 2604.03425 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-03 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.AI· cs.DC

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AEGIS: Scaling Long-Sequence Homomorphic Encrypted Transformer Inference via Hybrid Parallelism on Multi-GPU Systems

Zhaoting Gong , Ran Ran , Fan Yao , Wujie Wen

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keywords Fully Homomorphic EncryptionCKKSTransformer InferenceMulti-GPU ParallelismPrivacy-Preserving AICommunication ReductionLong-Sequence ModelsHybrid Parallelism

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The pith

By co-locating modulus-coherent and token-coherent ciphertexts according to joint Transformer and CKKS dependencies, AEGIS enables high-efficiency multi-GPU scaling for long-sequence homomorphic encrypted Transformer inference.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to overcome the memory limits and heavy inter-device communication that block fully homomorphic encryption from running Transformer models on long input sequences. It does so by deriving GPU placement from ciphertext dependencies created by both the model's dataflow and the encryption scheme's polynomial structure, then co-locating matching data and reordering operators to hide remaining communication behind computation. A reader would care because single-GPU memory quickly becomes insufficient for 2048-token encrypted inputs, and prior multi-GPU methods either replicate data or synchronize too often. The resulting system reports 96.62 percent scaling efficiency, 3.86 times end-to-end speedup, and 69.1 percent per-device memory reduction on four GPUs while cutting communication by up to 81.3 percent in attention layers.

Core claim

AEGIS derives device placement from ciphertext dependencies jointly induced by Transformer dataflow and CKKS polynomial coupling, co-locating modulus-coherent and token-coherent data so that communication is introduced only when application dependencies require it, while reordering polynomial operators to overlap the remaining collectives with computation. On 2048-token inputs this yields up to 96.62 percent scaling efficiency on four GPUs, 3.86 times end-to-end speedup, and 69.1 percent per-device memory reduction.

What carries the argument

Hybrid parallelism that places ciphertexts by jointly considering Transformer dataflow dependencies and CKKS modulus/token coherence, then overlaps collectives via operator reordering.

If this is right

Inter-GPU communication falls by up to 57.9 percent in feed-forward networks and 81.3 percent in self-attention for 2048-token inputs.
Four-GPU runs reach 96.62 percent scaling efficiency for long-sequence encrypted inference.
End-to-end inference accelerates by 3.86 times versus prior multi-GPU designs.
Memory footprint per GPU shrinks by 69.1 percent for the same workload.
Communication occurs only at application-level dependency points rather than at every encryption-level coupling.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same joint-dependency placement logic could be applied to other FHE workloads that combine neural-network dataflow with arithmetic constraints such as matrix multiplications under RNS.
Extending operator reordering to deeper stacks or eight-plus GPUs might further hide latency on faster interconnects.
The memory reduction per device suggests the method could support even longer sequences on fixed hardware budgets without accuracy loss.

Load-bearing premise

Co-locating modulus-coherent and token-coherent ciphertexts and reordering polynomial operators preserves exact homomorphic correctness without hidden synchronization or numerical instability.

What would settle it

Executing AEGIS on four GPUs with 2048-token encrypted inputs and verifying that decrypted outputs match a single-GPU reference while communication volume drops by the claimed percentages and scaling efficiency exceeds 90 percent.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.03425 by Fan Yao, Ran Ran, Wujie Wen, Zhaoting Gong.

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Memory breakdown of encrypted BERT-Base infer [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: (a) Collective in RNS-parallel BSGS matrix multipli [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: (a) Encrypted diagonal matrix multiplication. (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Output-slot coupling: (a) weight slices within the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Parallel self-attention: (a) data partition and communication insertion; (b) latency hiding via operator reordering. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Weak scaling: (a) upper bound on the number of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Communication volume on two GPUs with 128 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_11.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: End-to-end inference (a) per-device memory con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_12.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: End-to-end inference on four GPUs: (a) per-device [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_13.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables privacy-preserving Transformer inference, but long-sequence encrypted Transformers quickly exceed single-GPU memory capacity because encoded weights are already large and encrypted activations grow rapidly with sequence length. Multi-GPU execution therefore becomes unavoidable, yet scaling remains challenging because communication is jointly induced by application-level aggregation and encryption-level RNS coupling. Existing approaches either synchronize between devices frequently or replicate encrypted tensors across devices, leading to excessive communication and latency. We present AEGIS, an Application-Encryption Guided Inference System for scalable long-sequence encrypted Transformer inference on multi-GPU platforms. AEGIS derives device placement from ciphertext dependencies jointly induced by Transformer dataflow and CKKS polynomial coupling, co-locating modulus-coherent and token-coherent data so that communication is introduced only when application dependencies require it, while reordering polynomial operators to overlap the remaining collectives with computation. On 2048-token inputs, AEGIS reduces inter-GPU communication by up to 57.9% in feed-forward networks and 81.3% in self-attention versus prior state-of-the-art designs. On four GPUs, it achieves up to 96.62% scaling efficiency, 3.86x end-to-end speedup, and 69.1% per-device memory reduction. These results establish coordinated application-encryption parallelism as a practical foundation for scalable homomorphic Transformer inference.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

AEGIS shows a practical way to cut communication in multi-GPU FHE Transformer inference by placing ciphertexts according to both model and CKKS dependencies, but the abstract leaves the safety of the operator reordering unverified.

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The main point is that AEGIS derives device placement from the combined constraints of Transformer dataflow and CKKS RNS coupling. This lets them keep modulus-coherent and token-coherent ciphertexts together on the same GPU, so communication only occurs when the application actually needs it. They then reorder polynomial operators to hide the remaining collectives behind computation. On 2048-token inputs this reportedly cuts communication by 57-81 percent in key layers and delivers 96 percent scaling efficiency plus 3.86x speedup on four GPUs, along with 69 percent lower per-device memory use. That is a concrete improvement over the frequent-sync or full-replication baselines mentioned in the abstract. The placement logic itself is the clearest new element; it directly ties encryption structure to scheduling decisions rather than treating them separately. The overlap trick is a standard systems move but applied here in a way that matches the reported gains. The approach is aimed at a real limit in current FHE inference, and the numbers, if they hold, would matter for anyone trying to run longer private sequences. The soft spot is the missing verification. The abstract gives no setup details, no baseline descriptions, no correctness checks, and no argument that the reordering preserves the exact sequence of modulus switches and rotations required by CKKS. The stress-test concern about possible hidden misalignment or extra synchronization is therefore still open; without invariants or extensive testing in the full paper, the speedups could rest on an unstated assumption. This work is for researchers building practical FHE systems rather than theorists. A reader who already works on encrypted ML scaling would find the placement strategy worth examining. It deserves peer review because the problem is timely and the core idea is grounded in the actual constraints of both the model and the encryption scheme, even though the experiments will need more scrutiny for reproducibility and semantic preservation.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents AEGIS, a system for scaling long-sequence homomorphic encrypted Transformer inference on multi-GPU systems through hybrid parallelism. It co-locates modulus-coherent and token-coherent ciphertexts based on joint Transformer and CKKS dependencies, reorders polynomial operators to overlap communication with computation, and reports substantial reductions in inter-GPU communication along with 96.62% scaling efficiency, 3.86x speedup, and 69.1% memory reduction on four GPUs for 2048-token inputs.

Significance. If the empirical results are supported by rigorous correctness verification, this work would be significant for advancing practical FHE applications in machine learning, particularly for long-context models where memory constraints are severe. The coordinated application-encryption approach offers a new paradigm for parallelism in encrypted computation.

major comments (3)

[§4 (Hybrid Parallelism Design)] The reordering of polynomial operators to overlap collectives is central to the claimed communication reductions (57.9% in FFN, 81.3% in self-attention), but no formal invariant, dataflow analysis, or proof is provided to guarantee that this reordering preserves the exact sequence of CKKS operations including modulus switches and rotations required for correctness.
[Experimental Results (§6)] The reported 96.62% scaling efficiency, 3.86x speedup, and 69.1% memory reduction lack details on experimental setup, baseline implementations, number of trials, error bars, or ablation studies separating the effects of co-location and reordering, making the quantitative claims impossible to assess.
[§5.1 (Memory Reduction Analysis)] The 69.1% per-device memory reduction claim is presented without explicit before/after memory measurements or breakdown by component (weights vs. activations), which is load-bearing for the memory-scaling argument.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract mentions 'prior state-of-the-art designs' without naming them or providing citations in the provided text.
[Figures 3-5] Figure legends and axis labels in the scaling plots would benefit from explicit single-GPU baseline times for direct visual comparison.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the paper to incorporate the suggested improvements for clarity and rigor.

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Referee: [§4 (Hybrid Parallelism Design)] The reordering of polynomial operators to overlap collectives is central to the claimed communication reductions (57.9% in FFN, 81.3% in self-attention), but no formal invariant, dataflow analysis, or proof is provided to guarantee that this reordering preserves the exact sequence of CKKS operations including modulus switches and rotations required for correctness.

Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. The reordering is based on the joint dependency graph of Transformer dataflow and CKKS polynomial operations (ensuring modulus switches and rotations occur in equivalent order), but the manuscript indeed omits an explicit formal invariant or proof sketch. In the revised version, we will add a dataflow analysis section and a proof outline demonstrating that the reordering preserves semantic equivalence and the required CKKS operation sequence. revision: yes
Referee: [Experimental Results (§6)] The reported 96.62% scaling efficiency, 3.86x speedup, and 69.1% memory reduction lack details on experimental setup, baseline implementations, number of trials, error bars, or ablation studies separating the effects of co-location and reordering, making the quantitative claims impossible to assess.

Authors: We agree that the experimental section requires expansion for reproducibility. The revised manuscript will detail the hardware setup (GPU models and interconnect), baseline replication (how prior SOTA designs were implemented), number of trials (5 runs with averages and standard deviations), error bars, and ablation studies isolating co-location versus reordering contributions. revision: yes
Referee: [§5.1 (Memory Reduction Analysis)] The 69.1% per-device memory reduction claim is presented without explicit before/after memory measurements or breakdown by component (weights vs. activations), which is load-bearing for the memory-scaling argument.

Authors: We acknowledge this gap. The revised §5.1 will include explicit before/after per-device memory measurements obtained via profiling, with a component-wise breakdown separating weights from activations to substantiate the 69.1% reduction claim. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical system measurements only

full rationale

The paper describes an engineering system (AEGIS) whose core claims are measured speedups, scaling efficiencies, and memory reductions on 2048-token inputs. No equations, fitted parameters, or first-principles derivations are presented that reduce to their own inputs by construction. Device placement and operator reordering are design choices whose correctness is asserted via implementation and benchmark results rather than any self-referential proof or prediction step. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the reported numbers.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The abstract introduces no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities beyond standard CKKS and Transformer components already present in the cited prior literature.

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