Get the max number of slots available

[youben11]

Feature Description

In both CKKS and BFV (when using the batchencoder), we can batch many values at a time, up to some extent, we want to provide an API endpoint (e.g. .max_slots()) to return this maximum value.

What alternatives have you considered?

We can also add API endpoints for getting poly_mod_degree which we can infer the number of slots later depending on the scheme used, however, this requires some HE expertise, and a simple endpoint that doesn't require further computation might be simpler.

[IanQS]

I can try and take this on.

batch many values at a time

Is this like a packed encoding? Where we do SIMD?

[youben11]

We want to know the number of slots available if we used packing. We currently use the CKKSEncoder and BatchEncoder in the TenSEALEncoder, which both have a slot_counts method, we only need to bind that to the user so he can get that number.

[Dhairya3124]

Is this issue still open?

[youben11]

Yeah, it is

[Dhairya3124]

@youben11 Can you assign this to me?

[Dhairya3124]

@youben11 Thank you ! I'll start working up on this

[Praneshss]

Is this issue still open?

[bcebere]

Yes, the issue is still open.

[Praneshss]

Ok. Let me work on it. Thanks

[bcebere]

Great! Please let us know if you need any help on this.

Thank you!

[yooopan]

Is there a switch that can set SIMD open or close？