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One-shot federated learning enables multi-site inference with minimal communication. However, sharing summary statistics can still leak sensitive individual-level information when sites have only a small number of patients. In particular,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-02 Keisuke Hanada , Toshio Shimokawa , Kazushi Maruo

Reconstruction attacks against federated learning (FL) aim to reconstruct users' samples through users' uploaded gradients. Local differential privacy (LDP) is regarded as an effective defense against various attacks, including sample…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Shujun Li , Ximeng Liu , Siqi Ma , Yulong Shen

In deep neural networks for facial recognition, feature vectors are numerical representations that capture the unique features of a given face. While it is known that a version of the original face can be recovered via "feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Emily Wenger , Francesca Falzon , Josephine Passananti , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

The gold standard for privacy in machine learning, Differential Privacy (DP), is often interpreted through its guarantees against membership inference. However, translating DP budgets into quantitative protection against the more damaging…

Existing studies on differential privacy mainly consider aggregation on data sets where each entry corresponds to a particular participant to be protected. In many situations, a user may pose a relational algebra query on a sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Shixi Chen , Shuigeng Zhou

Several anonymization techniques, such as generalization and bucketization, have been designed for privacy preserving microdata publishing. Recent work has shown that generalization loses considerable amount of information, especially for…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Tiancheng Li , Ninghui Li , Jian Zhang , Ian Molloy

Gradient leakage has been identified as a potential source of privacy breaches in modern image processing systems, where the adversary can completely reconstruct the training images from leaked gradients. However, existing methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li

Automated machine vision pipelines do not need the exact visual content to perform their tasks. Therefore, there is a potential to remove private information from the data without significantly affecting the machine vision accuracy. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Bardia Azizian , Ivan V. Bajić

We study the problem of reconstructing tabular data from aggregate statistics, in which the attacker aims to identify interesting claims about the sensitive data that can be verified with 100% certainty given the aggregates. Successful…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Terrance Liu , Eileen Xiao , Adam Smith , Pratiksha Thaker , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Interpretability is often pointed out as a key requirement for trustworthy machine learning. However, learning and releasing models that are inherently interpretable leaks information regarding the underlying training data. As such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Julien Ferry , Ulrich Aïvodji , Sébastien Gambs , Marie-José Huguet , Mohamed Siala

The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. An important class of attack on anonymized data is attribute inference, where an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Paul Francis , David Wagner

Data anonymization is an approach to privacy-preserving data release aimed at preventing participants reidentification, and it is an important alternative to differential privacy in applications that cannot tolerate noisy data. Existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Robert Busa-Fekete , Lee M. Gunderson , Andrés Munõz Medina , Umar Syed

This paper investigates capabilities of Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning (PPDL) mechanisms against various forms of privacy attacks. First, we propose to quantitatively measure the trade-off between model accuracy and privacy losses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Lixin Fan , Kam Woh Ng , Ce Ju , Tianyu Zhang , Chang Liu , Chee Seng Chan , Qiang Yang

Household survey programs around the world publish fine-granular georeferenced microdata to support research on the interdependence of human livelihoods and their surrounding environment. To safeguard the respondents' privacy, micro-level…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Till Koebe , Alejandra Arias-Salazar

Machine learning is increasingly used in the most diverse applications and domains, whether in healthcare, to predict pathologies, or in the financial sector to detect fraud. One of the linchpins for efficiency and accuracy in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Pedro Faria , Luís Antunes

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated approach to privacy that has become a very active field of research over the last decade in theoretical computer science and machine learning. In this paradigm one assumes there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Marco Avella-Medina

In medical organizations large amount of personal data are collected and analyzed by the data miner or researcher, for further perusal. However, the data collected may contain sensitive information such as specific disease of a patient and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Pawan R Bhaladhare , Devesh Jinwala

In this paper, we consider the parameter estimation in a bandwidth-constrained sensor network communicating through an insecure medium. The sensor performs a local quantization, and transmits a 1-bit message to an estimation center through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Jimin Wang , Jieming Ke , Jin Guo , Yanlong Zhao

Preserving the privacy of individuals by protecting their sensitive attributes is an important consideration during microdata release. However, it is equally important to preserve the quality or utility of the data for at least some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Dennis Wei , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Kush R. Varshney