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In this work, we address the problem of text anonymization where the goal is to prevent adversaries from correctly inferring private attributes of the author, while keeping the text utility, i.e., meaning and semantics. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ahmed Frikha , Nassim Walha , Krishna Kanth Nakka , Ricardo Mendes , Xue Jiang , Xuebing Zhou

Crowdsourced data used in machine learning services might carry sensitive information about attributes that users do not want to share. Various methods have been proposed to minimize the potential information leakage of sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Han Zhao , Jianfeng Chi , Yuan Tian , Geoffrey J. Gordon

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- small visually imperceptible crafted noise which when added to the input drastically changes the output. The most effective method of defending against these adversarial attacks is to…

Attacks exploiting the innate and the acquired vulnerabilities of human users have posed severe threats to cybersecurity. This work proposes ADVERT, a human-technical solution that generates adaptive visual aids in real-time to prevent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Linan Huang , Shumeng Jia , Emily Balcetis , Quanyan Zhu

Machine-learning models can be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted input perturbations that force models to output wrong predictions. While uncertainty quantification has been recently proposed to detect adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emanuele Ledda , Daniele Angioni , Giorgio Piras , Giorgio Fumera , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Gradient inversion attack enables recovery of training samples from model gradients in federated learning (FL), and constitutes a serious threat to data privacy. To mitigate this vulnerability, prior work proposed both principled defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ruihan Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Chuan Guo , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Over the past decade, the machine learning security community has developed a myriad of defenses for evasion attacks. An understudied question in that community is: for whom do these defenses defend? This work considers common approaches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Luke E. Richards , Edward Raff , Cynthia Matuszek

Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence applications have raised new data security concerns. This paper focuses on defending diffusion models against membership inference attacks. This type of attack occurs when the attacker…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Benjamin Sterling , Yousef El-Laham , Mónica F. Bugallo

The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

Empirical inference attacks are a popular approach for evaluating the privacy risk of data release mechanisms in practice. While an active attack literature exists to evaluate machine learning models or synthetic data release, we currently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yifeng Mao , Bozhidar Stevanoski , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

In recent years, machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, have been widely used for classification tasks in the security domain. However, these models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial manipulation: small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dong Qin , George Amariucai , Daji Qiao , Yong Guan

Machine learning algorithms, when applied to sensitive data, pose a distinct threat to privacy. A growing body of prior work demonstrates that models produced by these algorithms may leak specific private information in the training data to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Samuel Yeom , Irene Giacomelli , Matt Fredrikson , Somesh Jha

Adversarial machine learning research has recently demonstrated the feasibility to confuse automatic speech recognition (ASR) models by introducing acoustically imperceptible perturbations to audio samples. To help researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Nilaksh Das , Madhuri Shanbhogue , Shang-Tse Chen , Li Chen , Michael E. Kounavis , Duen Horng Chau

Application Programming Interface (API) Injection attacks refer to the unauthorized or malicious use of APIs, which are often exploited to gain access to sensitive data or manipulate online systems for illicit purposes. Identifying actors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Udi Aharon , Ran Dubin , Amit Dvir , Chen Hajaj

Membership Inference Attacks exploit the vulnerabilities of exposing models trained on customer data to queries by an adversary. In a recently proposed implementation of an auditing tool for measuring privacy leakage from sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Abhinav Aggarwal , Zekun Xu , Oluwaseyi Feyisetan , Nathanael Teissier

With increasingly deployed deep neural networks in sensitive application domains, such as healthcare and security, it's essential to understand what kind of sensitive information can be inferred from these models. Most known model-targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuechun Gu , Jiajie He , Keke Chen

Adversarial training (AT) is a simple yet effective defense against adversarial attacks to image classification systems, which is based on augmenting the training set with attacks that maximize the loss. However, the effectiveness of AT as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Kaleab A. Kinfu , René Vidal

With the increasing adoption of AI, inherent security and privacy vulnerabilities formachine learning systems are being discovered. One such vulnerability makes itpossible for an adversary to obtain private information about the types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Samyadeep Basu , Rauf Izmailov , Chris Mesterharm

Recent researches show that deep learning model is susceptible to backdoor attacks. Many defenses against backdoor attacks have been proposed. However, existing defense works require high computational overhead or backdoor attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingfu Xue , Yinghao Wu , Zhiyu Wu , Yushu Zhang , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Differentially private (DP) machine learning allows us to train models on private data while limiting data leakage. DP formalizes this data leakage through a cryptographic game, where an adversary must predict if a model was trained on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Milad Nasr , Shuang Song , Abhradeep Thakurta , Nicolas Papernot , Nicholas Carlini