A Path to Sub-Second, Encrypted Skin Cancer Detection(medium.com)

A Path to Sub-Second, Encrypted Skin Cancer Detection

https://medium.com/dropoutlabs/encrypted-skin-cancer-detection-3d096d3b7237

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> So we replaced the Max-Pooling layer with an Average-Pooling layer,

Why not use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_maximum

jvmancuso7 anni fa

Thanks for the suggestion! The reason average pooling is faster than max pooling is that the former uses only addition, which is quite a bit faster than comparison in MPC. The smooth max requires both exponentiation and division, both of which are significantly more expensive than doing the comparison in ReLU or max pooling.