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It has been demonstrated that hidden representation learned by a deep model can encode private information of the input, hence can be exploited to recover such information with reasonable accuracy. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Lingjuan Lyu , Xuanli He , Yitong Li

Quantum computing offers unparalleled processing power but raises significant data privacy challenges. Quantum Differential Privacy (QDP) leverages inherent quantum noise to safeguard privacy, surpassing traditional DP. This paper develops…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Baobao Song , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Tianqing Zhu , Gang Li

Distributed machine learning algorithms that employ Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used in Industry 4.0 applications, such as smart manufacturing. The layers of a DNN can be mapped onto different nodes located in the cloud, edge and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Kevin Wallis , Christoph Reich , Blesson Varghese , Christian Schindelhauer

We propose a circuit-level backdoor attack, \textit{QTrojan}, against Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) in this paper. QTrojan is implemented by few quantum gates inserted into the variational quantum circuit of the victim QNN. QTrojan is much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Cheng Chu , Lei Jiang , Martin Swany , Fan Chen

This paper proposes GuardNN, a secure DNN accelerator that provides hardware-based protection for user data and model parameters even in an untrusted environment. GuardNN shows that the architecture and protection can be customized for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Weizhe Hua , Muhammad Umar , Zhiru Zhang , G. Edward Suh

Deep learning, when integrated with a large amount of training data, has the potential to outperform machine learning in terms of high accuracy. Recently, privacy-preserving deep learning has drawn significant attention of the research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Mukesh Sahani , Binanda Sengupta

Deep learning model developers often use cloud GPU resources to experiment with large data and models that need expensive setups. However, this practice raises privacy concerns. Adversaries may be interested in: 1) personally identifiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sagar Sharma , Keke Chen

Network embedding represents network nodes by a low-dimensional informative vector. While it is generally effective for various downstream tasks, it may leak some private information of networks, such as hidden private links. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xiao Han , Leye Wang , Junjie Wu , Yuncong Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and more precisely recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are at the core of modern automatic speech recognition systems, due to their efficiency to process input sequences. Recently, it has been shown that different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Titouan Parcollet , Mohamed Morchid , Georges Linarès , Renato De Mori

User-facing software services are becoming increasingly reliant on remote servers to host Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, which perform inference tasks for the clients. Such services require the client to send input data to the service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Sanjay Kariyappa , Ousmane Dia , Moinuddin K Qureshi

We propose a transformation network for generating visually-protected images for privacy-preserving DNNs. The proposed transformation network is trained by using a plain image dataset so that plain images are transformed into visually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Hiroki Ito , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

We treat privacy in a network of quantum sensors where accessible information is limited to specific functions of the network parameters, and all other information remains private. We develop an analysis of privacy in terms of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Majid Hassani , Santiago Scheiner , Matteo G. A. Paris , Damian Markham

In this paper, we propose a novel design, called MixNN, for protecting deep learning model structure and parameters. The layers in a deep learning model of MixNN are fully decentralized. It hides communication address, layer parameters and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chao Liu , Hao Chen , Yusen Wu , Rui Jin

The training phase of deep neural networks requires substantial resources and as such is often performed on cloud servers. However, this raises privacy concerns when the training dataset contains sensitive content, e.g., facial or medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yamin Sepehri , Pedram Pad , Pascal Frossard , L. Andrea Dunbar

Quantum federated learning (QFL) enables collaborative training of quantum machine learning (QML) models across distributed quantum devices without raw data exchange. However, QFL remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where shared QML…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Atit Pokharel , Ratun Rahman , Shaba Shaon , Thomas Morris , Dinh C. Nguyen

In this paper, we introduce a quantum extension of classical DNN, QDNN. The QDNN consisting of quantum structured layers can uniformly approximate any continuous function and has more representation power than the classical DNN. It still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Chen Zhao , Xiao-Shan Gao

With the rapid growth of interconnected devices, accurately detecting malicious activities in network traffic has become increasingly challenging. Most existing deep learning-based intrusion detection systems treat network flows as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Devashish Chaudhary , Sutharshan Rajasegarar , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

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

We consider differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning in continuous spaces, such that neighboring reward functions are indistinguishable. This protects the reward information from being exploited by methods such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Baoxiang Wang , Nidhi Hegde

This paper investigates the piracy problem of deep learning models. Designing and training a well-performing model is generally expensive. However, when releasing them, attackers may reverse engineer the models and pirate their design. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Hui Xu , Yuxin Su , Zirui Zhao , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King