Hermes: A Unified High-Performance NTT Architecture with Hybrid Dataflow

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Hauptverfasser: Gu, Hang, Wang, Teng, Cheng, Qianyu, Li, Jinao, Zheng, Zhendong, Gong, Lei, Lou, Wenqi, Li, Xi, Zhou, Xuehai
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author Gu, Hang
Wang, Teng
Cheng, Qianyu
Li, Jinao
Zheng, Zhendong
Gong, Lei
Lou, Wenqi
Li, Xi
Zhou, Xuehai
author_facet Gu, Hang
Wang, Teng
Cheng, Qianyu
Li, Jinao
Zheng, Zhendong
Gong, Lei
Lou, Wenqi
Li, Xi
Zhou, Xuehai
contents Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) relies heavily on the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT), making NTT a major performance bottleneck due to its intensive polynomial computations. Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE), which integrates arithmetic and logic FHE, further requires support for multiple NTT lengths. However, existing accelerators mainly optimize NTT throughput and do not provide unified support for HHE. This paper presents Hermes, a unified high-performance NTT architecture based on hybrid dataflow. Hermes exploits parallelism along both temporal and spatial dimensions and incorporates a fully pipelined on-chip computing core. A conflict-free on-chip fragmentation algorithm is introduced to resolve bank conflicts and enable burst HBM access, while an efficient dataflow improves computational intensity through data reuse, reducing bandwidth demand. Experimental results show that Hermes supports multiple NTT lengths and achieves up to 13.6x and 1.3x higher throughput than state-of-the-art GPU and FPGA accelerators, respectively. Our source code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Hermes_conf-4E6F.
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spellingShingle Hermes: A Unified High-Performance NTT Architecture with Hybrid Dataflow
Gu, Hang
Wang, Teng
Cheng, Qianyu
Li, Jinao
Zheng, Zhendong
Gong, Lei
Lou, Wenqi
Li, Xi
Zhou, Xuehai
Hardware Architecture
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) relies heavily on the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT), making NTT a major performance bottleneck due to its intensive polynomial computations. Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE), which integrates arithmetic and logic FHE, further requires support for multiple NTT lengths. However, existing accelerators mainly optimize NTT throughput and do not provide unified support for HHE. This paper presents Hermes, a unified high-performance NTT architecture based on hybrid dataflow. Hermes exploits parallelism along both temporal and spatial dimensions and incorporates a fully pipelined on-chip computing core. A conflict-free on-chip fragmentation algorithm is introduced to resolve bank conflicts and enable burst HBM access, while an efficient dataflow improves computational intensity through data reuse, reducing bandwidth demand. Experimental results show that Hermes supports multiple NTT lengths and achieves up to 13.6x and 1.3x higher throughput than state-of-the-art GPU and FPGA accelerators, respectively. Our source code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Hermes_conf-4E6F.
title Hermes: A Unified High-Performance NTT Architecture with Hybrid Dataflow
topic Hardware Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01556