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The usage of deep learning is being escalated in many applications. Due to its outstanding performance, it is being used in a variety of security and privacy-sensitive areas in addition to conventional applications. One of the key aspects…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zhaoxi Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xufei Zheng , Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Shengshan Hu

In this paper, we reveal a significant shortcoming in class unlearning evaluations: overlooking the underlying class geometry can cause privacy leakage. We further propose a simple yet effective solution to mitigate this issue. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny , Yian Wang , Hari Sundaram

Membership Inference Attacks have emerged as a dominant method for empirically measuring privacy leakage from machine learning models. Here, privacy is measured by the {\em{advantage}} or gap between a score or a function computed on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ruihan Wu , Pengrun Huang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Membership inference attacks serves as useful tool for fair use of language models, such as detecting potential copyright infringement and auditing data leakage. However, many current state-of-the-art attacks require access to models'…

Deep neural network pruning and quantization techniques have demonstrated it is possible to achieve high levels of compression with surprisingly little degradation to test set accuracy. However, this measure of performance conceals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sara Hooker , Aaron Courville , Gregory Clark , Yann Dauphin , Andrea Frome

Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples-small input perturbations that cause models to fail. Adversarial training is one of the solutions that stops adversarial examples; models are exposed to attacks during training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Maximilian Kaufmann , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

Transfer learning, successful in knowledge translation across related tasks, faces a substantial privacy threat from membership inference attacks (MIAs). These attacks, despite posing significant risk to ML model's training data, remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Cong Wu , Jing Chen , Qianru Fang , Kun He , Ziming Zhao , Hao Ren , Guowen Xu , Yang Liu , Yang Xiang

With the emergence of a spectrum of high-end mobile devices, many applications that formerly required desktop-level computation capability are being transferred to these devices. However, executing the inference of Deep Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Wei Niu , Xiaolong Ma , Sheng Lin , Shihao Wang , Xuehai Qian , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Bin Ren

Machine learning models can leak private information about their training data. The standard methods to measure this privacy risk, based on membership inference attacks (MIAs), only check if a given data point \textit{exactly} matches a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jiashu Tao , Reza Shokri

Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are pivotal for creating fine-grained learner profiles in modern intelligent education platforms. However, these models are trained on sensitive student data, raising significant privacy concerns. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingliang Hou , Yinuo Wang , Teng Guo , Zitao Liu , Wenzhou Dou , Jiaqi Zheng , Renqiang Luo , Mi Tian , Weiqi Luo

In this paper we develop state-of-the-art privacy attacks against Large Language Models (LLMs), where an adversary with some access to the model tries to learn something about the underlying training data. Our headline results are new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jeffrey G. Wang , Jason Wang , Marvin Li , Seth Neel

Recent studies propose membership inference (MI) attacks on deep models, where the goal is to infer if a sample has been used in the training process. Despite their apparent success, these studies only report accuracy, precision, and recall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Shahbaz Rezaei , Xin Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) deliver outstanding performance, but their complexity often prohibits deployment in resource-constrained settings. Comprehensive structured pruning frameworks based on parameter dependency analysis reduce model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Daniel Görges

Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Model explanations improve the transparency of black-box machine learning (ML) models and their decisions; however, they can also be exploited to carry out privacy threats such as membership inference attacks (MIA). Existing works have only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Kavita Kumari , Murtuza Jadliwala , Sumit Kumar Jha , Anindya Maiti

Deep neural networks (DNNs) although achieving human-level performance in many domains, have very large model size that hinders their broader applications on edge computing devices. Extensive research work have been conducted on DNN model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Shaokai Ye , Tianyun Zhang , Kaiqi Zhang , Jiayu Li , Kaidi Xu , Yunfei Yang , Fuxun Yu , Jian Tang , Makan Fardad , Sijia Liu , Xiang Chen , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

Malicious clients can attack federated learning systems using malicious data, including backdoor samples, during the training phase. The compromised global model will perform well on the validation dataset designed for the task, but a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Chen Wu , Xian Yang , Sencun Zhu , Prasenjit Mitra

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

Large deep neural network (DNN) models pose the key challenge to energy efficiency due to the significantly higher energy consumption of off-chip DRAM accesses than arithmetic or SRAM operations. It motivates the intensive research on model…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) frequently contain far more weights, represented at a higher precision, than are required for the specific task which they are trained to perform. Consequently, they can often be compressed using techniques such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Vinu Joseph , Saurav Muralidharan , Animesh Garg , Michael Garland , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan