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A compiler for homomorphic encryption
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Explore Conversion for TFHE dialect from concrete-ml <-> CGGI dialect in HEIR #911

Open ai-mannamalai opened 2 months ago

ai-mannamalai commented 2 months ago

Conversion for TFHE dialect from concrete-ml <-> CGGI dialect in HEIR

See conversation at https://discord.com/channels/901152454077452399/1226892677887426560/1273740941282381947

AlexanderViand-Intel commented 2 months ago

Note that Concrete is under a license that appears to me (not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc) to be incompatible with the Apache 2.0 license (with LLVM exceptions) of MLIR/LLVM and most other MLIR-based projects, including HEIR.

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