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Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Statistical Modeling

Balasubramanian Narasimhan
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Fully homomorphic encryption allows arithmetic to be carried out on encrypted values, so that a party performing a computation need not see the data it operates on. This is useful wherever collaborating parties or sites cannot share data records or computed summaries yet need to do a joint analysis. We demonstrate the protocols needed to perform such analyses reproducibly via two packages in R, a platform widely used for applied statistics. The first, openfhe.R, is an interface to the OpenFHE C++ library, which exposes exact integer arithmetic (BFV, BGV), approximate real-valued arithmetic (CKKS), Boolean circuits, and multiparty key generation. The second is homomorpheR, which builds a small set of master/worker primitives for multi-party protocols on top of the first. Together, the two let an ordinary R statistical routine compose with an encrypted-arithmetic layer at the function-value boundary, provided the quantity crossing that boundary decomposes as a sum over sites. Two validation studies are presented: distributed stratified Cox regression, where stats4::mle() converges through an encrypted channel, and federated Cox-lasso via convex optimization using consensus ADMM, where the cross-site update is the only encrypted step. We also discuss federated similarity retrieval and two-party prediction. Throughout, the parties are assumed honest-but-curious, and threshold key generation removes the assumption that any single party holds a usable secret key.

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Balasubramanian Narasimhan. 2026-10-03. Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Statistical Modeling. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04163

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