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    Efficient estimation of Sigmoid and Tanh activation functions for homomorphically encrypted data using Artificial Neural Networks
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Harb, Mhd Raja Abou; Çeliktaş, Barış
    This paper presents a novel approach to estimating Sigmoid and Tanh activation functions using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) optimized for homomorphic encryption. The proposed method is compared against second-degree polynomial and Piecewise Linear approximations, demonstrating a minor loss in accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency. Our results suggest that the ANN-based estimator is a viable alternative for secure machine learning models requiring privacypreserving computation.
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    ANN activation function estimators for homomorphic encrypted inference
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025-06-13) Harb, Mhd Raja Abou; Çeliktaş, Barış
    Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computations on encrypted data, facilitating machine learning inference in sensitive environments such as healthcare and finance. However, efficiently handling non-linear activation functions, specifically Sigmoid and Tanh, remains a significant computational challenge for encrypted inference using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). This study introduces a lightweight, ANN-based estimator designed to accurately approximate activation functions under homomorphic encryption. Unlike traditional polynomial and piecewise linear approximations, the proposed ANN estimators achieve superior accuracy with lower computational overhead associated with bootstrapping or high-degree polynomial techniques. These estimators are trained on plaintext data and seamlessly integrated into encrypted inference pipelines, significantly outperforming conventional methods. Experimental evaluations demonstrate notable improvements, with ANN estimators enhancing accuracy by approximately 2% for Sigmoid and up to 73% for Tanh functions, improving F1-scores by approximately 2% for Sigmoid and up to 88% for Tanh, and markedly reducing Mean Square Error (MSE) by up to 96% compared to polynomial approximations. The ANN estimator achieves an accuracy of 97.70% and an AUC of 0.9997 when integrated into a CNN architecture on the MNIST dataset, and an accuracy of 85.25% with an AUC of 0.9459 on the UCI Heart Disease dataset during ciphertext inference. These results underscore the estimator’s practical effectiveness and computational feasibility, making it suitable for secure and efficient ANN inference in encrypted environments.
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    Secure and interpretable dyslexia detection using homomorphic encryption and SHAP-based explanations
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025-10-25) Harb, Mhd Raja Abou; Çeliktaş, Barış; Eroğlu, Günet
    Protecting sensitive healthcare data during machine learning inference is critical, particularly in cloud-based environments. This study addresses the privacy and interpretability challenges in dyslexia detection using Quantitative EEG (QEEG) data. We propose a privacy-preserving framework utilizing Homomorphic Encryption (HE) to securely perform inference with an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Due to the incompatibility of non-linear activation functions with encrypted arithmetic, we employ a dedicated approximation strategy. To ensure model interpretability without compromising privacy, SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) are computed homomorphically and decrypted client-side. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that the encrypted inference achieves an accuracy of 90.03% and an AUC of 0.8218, reflecting only minor performance degradation compared to plaintext inference. SHAP value comparisons (Spearman correlation = 0.59) validate the reliability of the encrypted explanations. These results confirm that integrating privacy-preserving and explainable AI approaches is feasible for secure, ethical, and compliant healthcare deployments.