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With the extensive use of machine learning technologies, data providers encounter increasing privacy risks. Recent legislation, such as GDPR, obligates organizations to remove requested data and its influence from a trained model. Machine…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hengzhu Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Ping Xiong

Deploying machine learning models in production may allow adversaries to infer sensitive information about training data. There is a vast literature analyzing different types of inference risks, ranging from membership inference to…

There is a known tension between the need to analyze personal data to drive business and privacy concerns. Many data protection regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abigail Goldsteen , Gilad Ezov , Ron Shmelkin , Micha Moffie , Ariel Farkash

Machine learning models, especially deep neural networks have been shown to be susceptible to privacy attacks such as membership inference where an adversary can detect whether a data point was used for training a black-box model. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Shruti Tople , Amit Sharma , Aditya Nori

Differential Privacy (DP) is a family of definitions that bound the worst-case privacy leakage of a mechanism. One important feature of the worst-case DP guarantee is it naturally implies protections against adversaries with less prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Marika Swanberg , Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Jamie Hayes , Borja Balle , Adam Smith

Data used to train machine learning models can be adversarial--maliciously constructed by adversaries to fool the model. Challenge also arises by privacy, confidentiality, or due to legal constraints when data are geographically gathered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Alireza Sadeghi , Gang Wang , Meng Ma , Georgios B. Giannakis

Machine learning models trained with differentially-private (DP) algorithms such as DP-SGD enjoy resilience against a wide range of privacy attacks. Although it is possible to derive bounds for some attacks based solely on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Giovanni Cherubin , Boris Köpf , Andrew Paverd , Shruti Tople , Lukas Wutschitz , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin

Machine learning models are vulnerable to Adversarial Examples: minor perturbations to input samples intended to deliberately cause misclassification. Current defenses against adversarial examples, especially for Deep Neural Networks (DNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Kathrin Grosse , David Pfaff , Michael Thomas Smith , Michael Backes

As we rely on machine learning (ML) models to make more consequential decisions, the issue of ML models perpetuating or even exacerbating undesirable historical biases (e.g., gender and racial biases) has come to the fore of the public's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-01 Subha Maity , Songkai Xue , Mikhail Yurochkin , Yuekai Sun

Machine learning models exhibit two seemingly contradictory phenomena: training data memorization, and various forms of forgetting. In memorization, models overfit specific training examples and become susceptible to privacy attacks. In…

Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches defending against adversarial examples for deep learning models. Unlike other defense strategies, adversarial training aims to promote the robustness of models intrinsically.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao , Bihan Wen , Qian Wang

We introduce a new class of attacks on machine learning models. We show that an adversary who can poison a training dataset can cause models trained on this dataset to leak significant private details of training points belonging to other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Florian Tramèr , Reza Shokri , Ayrton San Joaquin , Hoang Le , Matthew Jagielski , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini

Diffusion models have recently gained significant attention in both academia and industry due to their impressive generative performance in terms of both sampling quality and distribution coverage. Accordingly, proposals are made for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Xinjian Luo , Yangfan Jiang , Fei Wei , Yuncheng Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Beng Chin Ooi

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

Large Language Model (LLM) providers expose fine-tuning APIs that let end users fine-tune their frontier LLMs. Unfortunately, it has been shown that an adversary with fine-tuning access to an LLM can bypass safeguards. Particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sarah Egler , John Schulman , Nicholas Carlini

Training machine learning models with differential privacy (DP) limits an adversary's ability to infer sensitive information about the training data. It can be interpreted as a bound on adversary's capability to distinguish two adjacent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gauri Pradhan , Joonas Jälkö , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin , Antti Honkela

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

It is necessary to improve the performance of some special classes or to particularly protect them from attacks in adversarial learning. This paper proposes a framework combining cost-sensitive classification and adversarial learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Haojing Shen , Sihong Chen , Ran Wang , Xizhao Wang

Recently, the membership inference attack poses a serious threat to the privacy of confidential training data of machine learning models. This paper proposes a novel adversarial example based privacy-preserving technique (AEPPT), which adds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingfu Xue , Chengxiang Yuan , Can He , Zhiyu Wu , Yushu Zhang , Zhe Liu , Weiqiang Liu

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks and common corruptions, which undermine their robustness. In order to enhance model resilience against such challenges, Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a prominent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tejaswini Medi , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper