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Document understanding models are increasingly employed by companies to supplant humans in processing sensitive documents, such as invoices, tax notices, or even ID cards. However, the robustness of such models to privacy attacks remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jérémie Dentan , Arnaud Paran , Aymen Shabou

Privacy concerns have become increasingly critical in modern AI and data science applications, where sensitive information is collected, analyzed, and shared across diverse domains such as healthcare, finance, and mobility. While prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ziyao Cui , Minxing Zhang , Jian Pei

Model explanations provide transparency into a trained machine learning model's blackbox behavior to a model builder. They indicate the influence of different input attributes to its corresponding model prediction. The dependency of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Vasisht Duddu , Antoine Boutet

Publicly releasing the specification of a model with its trained parameters means an adversary can attempt to reconstruct information about the training data via training data reconstruction attacks, a major vulnerability of modern machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-25 George Wynne

With the rise of large foundation models, split inference (SI) has emerged as a popular computational paradigm for deploying models across lightweight edge devices and cloud servers, addressing data privacy and computational cost concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wa-Kin Lei , Jun-Cheng Chen , Shang-Tse Chen

Backdoor and data-poisoning attacks can flip predictions with tiny training corruptions, yet a sharp theory linking poisoning strength, overparameterization, and regularization is lacking. We analyze ridge least squares with an unpenalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Donald Flynn , Diego Granziol

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the effects of data poisoning attacks on data-driven control methods. Poisoning attacks are well-known to the Machine Learning community, which, however, make use of assumptions, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Alessio Russo

As machine learning becomes widely used for automated decisions, attackers have strong incentives to manipulate the results and models generated by machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we perform the first systematic study of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Matthew Jagielski , Alina Oprea , Battista Biggio , Chang Liu , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Bo Li

Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion models, have raised concerns related to privacy, copyright infringement, and data stewardship. To better understand and control these risks, prior work has introduced techniques and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Sol Yarkoni , Mahmood Sharif , Roi Livni

Large Language Models are typically trained on datasets collected from the web, which may inadvertently contain harmful or sensitive personal information. To address growing privacy concerns, unlearning methods have been proposed to remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoyu Wu , Yifei Pang , Terrance Liu , Zhiwei Steven Wu

The threat of reconstruction attacks has led the U.S. Census Bureau (USCB) to replace in the Decennial Census 2020 the traditional statistical disclosure limitation based on rank swapping with one based on differential privacy (DP), leading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 David Sánchez , Najeeb Jebreel , Krishnamurty Muralidhar , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Models leak information about their training data. This enables attackers to infer sensitive information about their training sets, notably determine if a data sample was part of the model's training set. The existing works empirically show…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-18 Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Reza Shokri , George Theodorakopoulos

We consider the problem of fitting a linear model to data held by individuals who are concerned about their privacy. Incentivizing most players to truthfully report their data to the analyst constrains our design to mechanisms that provide…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Rachel Cummings , Stratis Ioannidis , Katrina Ligett

These days, deep learning models have achieved great success in multiple fields, from autonomous driving to medical diagnosis. These models have expanded the abilities of artificial intelligence by offering great solutions to complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gopichandh Golla

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

Data reconstruction attacks on machine learning models pose a substantial threat to privacy, potentially leaking sensitive information. Although defending against such attacks using differential privacy (DP) provides theoretical guarantees,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kristian Schwethelm , Johannes Kaiser , Moritz Knolle , Sarah Lockfisch , Daniel Rueckert , Alexander Ziller

Linear regression is a fundamental building block of statistical data analysis. It amounts to estimating the parameters of a linear model that maps input features to corresponding outputs. In the classical setting where the precision of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Nicolas Gast , Stratis Ioannidis , Patrick Loiseau , Benjamin Roussillon

In statistical disclosure control, the goal of data analysis is twofold: The released information must provide accurate and useful statistics about the underlying population of interest, while minimizing the potential for an individual…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-15 Jing Lei , Anne-Sophie Charest , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Adam Smith , Stephen Fienberg

This study investigates embedding reconstruction attacks in large language models (LLMs) applied to genomic sequences, with a specific focus on how fine-tuning affects vulnerability to these attacks. Building upon Pan et al.'s seminal work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Reem Al-Saidi , Erman Ayday , Ziad Kobti

Privacy and interpretability are two important ingredients for achieving trustworthy machine learning. We study the interplay of these two aspects in graph machine learning through graph reconstruction attacks. The goal of the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Mandeep Rathee , Thorben Funke , Megha Khosla