Towards Encrypted Large Language Models with FHE

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Hugging Face explores encrypted large language models with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to address user privacy concerns

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Action Steps
  1. Understand the basics of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and its potential to solve LLM privacy challenges
  2. Explore the implementation of a LLM layer with FHE, including quantization and compilation to FHE
  3. Apply FHE to existing LLM models, such as the Hugging Face GPT2 model, to evaluate its effectiveness and complexity
Who Needs to Know This

AI engineers and researchers on a team can benefit from understanding the implementation of FHE in LLMs to improve user privacy, while data scientists and product managers can appreciate the potential applications and challenges of this technology

Key Insight

💡 Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) can be used to encrypt large language models, enabling secure and private computations on sensitive data

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Hugging Face explores encrypted large language models with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to address user privacy concerns

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Published Time: 2023-08-02T00:00:00.262Z

# Towards Encrypted Large Language Models with FHE

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# [](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#towards-encrypted-large-language-models-with-fhe) Towards Encrypted Large Language Models with FHE

Published August 2, 2023

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* [The Impact of Large Language Models on Users' Privacy](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#the-impact-of-large-language-models-on-users-privacy "The Impact of Large Language Models on Users' Privacy")

* [Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Can Solve LLM Privacy Challenges](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#fully-homomorphic-encryption-fhe-can-solve-llm-privacy-challenges "Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Can Solve LLM Privacy Challenges")

* [Implementation of a LLM layer with FHE](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#implementation-of-a-llm-layer-with-fhe "Implementation of a LLM layer with FHE")
* [Quantization](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#quantization "Quantization")

* [Applying FHE to the Hugging Face GPT2 model](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#applying-fhe-to-the-hugging-face-gpt2-model "Applying FHE to the Hugging Face GPT2 model")

* [Compilation to FHE](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#compilation-to-fhe "Compilation to FHE")

* [Complexity](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#complexity "Complexity")

* [Conclusion](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#conclusion "Conclusion")

Large Language Models (LLM) have recently been proven as reliable tools for improving productivity in many areas such as programming, content creation, text analysis, web search, and distance learning.
## [](https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm#the-impact-of-large-language-models-on-users-privacy) The Impact of Large Language Mod
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