# R07: Slalom: Fast, Verifiable and Private Execution of Neural Networks in Trusted Hardware

Slalom outsources masked linear work and uses local verification within a trusted execution partition. PLLM status: tracked.

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Document ID: `pllm.docs.research.papers.r07-slalom`  
Release: `0.1.0`

**Status:** `tracked`
**Year:** 2019
**Authors:** Florian Tramèr, Dan Boneh
**External source:** [Slalom: Fast, Verifiable and Private Execution of Neural Networks in Trusted Hardware](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03287v2)

## Source contribution

Slalom outsources masked linear work and uses local verification within a trusted execution partition.

## PLLM perspective

Reproduce the original blinding and verification boundary. Register PLLM trusted-client/dealer adaptation separately; port modular kernels and verification state without changing the numerical graph silently.

The full Slalom paper is acquired and digest-locked. Original PLLM manuscript runs remain an adaptation, not a fresh reproduction of Slalom; no upstream artifact is acquired or executed.

This paper remains tracked. Named modules below are implementation targets, not finished PLLM components; no reproduction, integration, assurance, or matched benchmark is claimed.

The source's boundary remains binding: A trusted client is not a reproduced TEE deployment. Static non-collusion, integrity and later compromise require distinct claims.

## PLLM modules and documentation

Target module identifiers: `protocol.masked_linear`, `verify.preprocessed_linear`. These identifiers describe scoped work unless this page explicitly links an implementation source. Dependencies: None.

- [Research backlog](/research/backlog/)
- [Reimplementation backlog](/research/backlog/)
- [Clean-room workflow](/research/clean-room/)

## Backlog

This source is assigned to reimplementation priority 1, **Delegated matrix-vector execution**. Its source-registry order is 7. Follow current gates and unfinished work in the [research backlog](/research/backlog/).