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Some machine learning applications involve training data that is sensitive, such as the medical histories of patients in a clinical trial. A model may inadvertently and implicitly store some of its training data; careful analysis of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-06 Nicolas Papernot , Martín Abadi , Úlfar Erlingsson , Ian Goodfellow , Kunal Talwar

Machine-learning models contain information about the data they were trained on. This information leaks either through the model itself or through predictions made by the model. Consequently, when the training data contains sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Awni Hannun , Chuan Guo , Laurens van der Maaten

In the federated learning system, parameter gradients are shared among participants and the central modulator, while the original data never leave their protected source domain. However, the gradient itself might carry enough information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yong Liu , Xinghua Zhu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Data publishing under privacy constraints can be achieved with mechanisms that add randomness to data points when released to an untrusted party, thereby decreasing the data's utility. In this paper, we analyze this privacy-utility tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Tobias Oechtering

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been integrated into all aspects of our lives and the privacy of personal data has attracted more and more attention. Since the generation of the model needs to extract the effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Ruikang Yang , Jianfeng Ma , Yinbin Miao , Xindi Ma

Privacy and transparency are two key foundations of trustworthy machine learning. Model explanations offer insights into a model's decisions on input data, whereas privacy is primarily concerned with protecting information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Reza Shokri , Martin Strobel , Yair Zick

In this work, maximal $\alpha$-leakage is introduced to quantify how much a quantum adversary can learn about any sensitive information of data upon observing its disturbed version via a quantum privacy mechanism. We first show that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Bo-Yu Yang , Hsuan Yu , Hao-Chung Cheng

We introduce a privacy measure called statistic maximal leakage that quantifies how much a privacy mechanism leaks about a specific secret, relative to the adversary's prior information about that secret. Statistic maximal leakage is an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shuaiqi Wang , Zinan Lin , Giulia Fanti

In machine learning, curation is used to select the most valuable data for improving both model accuracy and computational efficiency. Recently, curation has also been explored as a solution for private machine learning: rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dariush Wahdany , Matthew Jagielski , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

Federated learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, recent studies have shown that it is vulnerable to various privacy attacks, such as data reconstruction attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen

Machine learning (ML) explainability is central to algorithmic transparency in high-stakes settings such as predictive diagnostics and loan approval. However, these same domains require rigorous privacy guaranties, creating tension between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Firas Ben Hmida , Zain Sbeih , Philemon Hailemariam , Birhanu Eshete

Generative machine learning models are being increasingly viewed as a way to share sensitive data between institutions. While there has been work on developing differentially private generative modeling approaches, these approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yixi Xu , Sumit Mukherjee , Xiyang Liu , Shruti Tople , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

Modern machine learning (ML) ecosystems offer a surging number of ML frameworks and code repositories that can greatly facilitate the development of ML models. Today, even ordinary data holders who are not ML experts can apply off-the-shelf…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zitao Chen , Karthik Pattabiraman

We introduce an analytical framework to quantify the changes in a machine learning algorithm's output distribution following the inclusion of a few data points in its training set, a notion we define as leave-one-out distinguishability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Jiayuan Ye , Anastasia Borovykh , Soufiane Hayou , Reza Shokri

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a critical threat to the privacy of training data in deep learning. Despite significant progress in attack methodologies, our understanding of when and how models encode membership information during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuetian Chen , Zhiqi Wang , Nathalie Baracaldo , Swanand Ravindra Kadhe , Lei Yu

In this evolving era of machine learning security, membership inference attacks have emerged as a potent threat to the confidentiality of sensitive data. In this attack, adversaries aim to determine whether a particular point was used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abhishek Sinha , Himanshi Tibrewal , Mansi Gupta , Nikhar Waghela , Shivank Garg

Leakage of data from publicly available Machine Learning (ML) models is an area of growing significance as commercial and government applications of ML can draw on multiple sources of data, potentially including users' and clients'…

Transfer learning is a useful machine learning framework that allows one to build task-specific models (student models) without significantly incurring training costs using a single powerful model (teacher model) pre-trained with a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi

Recent advances in neural network based language models lead to successful deployments of such models, improving user experience in various applications. It has been demonstrated that strong performance of language models comes along with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Huseyin A. Inan , Osman Ramadan , Lukas Wutschitz , Daniel Jones , Victor Rühle , James Withers , Robert Sim

Model distillation is frequently proposed as a technique to reduce the privacy leakage of machine learning. These empirical privacy defenses rely on the intuition that distilled ``student'' models protect the privacy of training data, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Matthew Jagielski , Milad Nasr , Christopher Choquette-Choo , Katherine Lee , Nicholas Carlini