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    GPU-based Private Information Retrieval for On-Device Machine Learning Inference
    Lam, Maximilian; Johnson, Jeff; Xiong, Wenjie; Maeng, Kiwan; Gupta, Udit; Li, Yang; Lai, Liangzhen; Leontiadis, Ilias; Rhu, Minsoo; Lee, Hsien-Hsin S.; Reddi, Vijay Janapa; Wei, Gu-Yeon; Brooks, David; Suh, Edward (ACM, 2024-04-27)
    On-device machine learning (ML) inference can enable the use of private user data on user devices without revealing them to remote servers. However, a pure on-device solution to private ML inference is impractical for many applications that rely on embedding tables that are too large to be stored on-device. In particular, recommendation models typically use multiple embedding tables each on the order of 1-10 GBs of data, making them impractical to store on-device. To overcome this barrier, we propose the use of private information retrieval (PIR) to efficiently and privately retrieve embeddings from servers without sharing any private information. As off-the-shelf PIR algorithms are usually too computationally intensive to directly use for latency-sensitive inference tasks, we 1) propose novel GPU-based acceleration of PIR, and 2) co-design PIR with the downstream ML application to obtain further speedup. Our GPU acceleration strategy improves system throughput by more than 20× over an optimized CPU PIR implementation, and our PIR-ML co-design provides an over 5× additional throughput improvement at fixed model quality. Together, for various on-device ML applications such as recommendation and language modeling, our system on a single V100 GPU can serve up to 100, 000 queries per second—a > 100× throughput improvement over a CPU-based baseline—while maintaining model accuracy.