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Twenty-eight within-subject counterfactual experiments across 2,047 tabular datasets, plus a boundary experiment on 129 temporal datasets, measuring the severity of four data leakage classes in machine learning. Class I (estimation -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Simon Roth

Privacy auditing provides empirical lower bounds on the differential privacy parameters of learning algorithms. Existing methods, however, require interventional access to the training pipeline, either to retrain multiple times or to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tudor Cebere , Mathieu Even , Linus Bleistein , Aurélien Bellet

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a secure paradigm for collaborative training among clients. Without data centralization, FL allows clients to share local information in a privacy-preserving manner. This approach has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jiawei Shao , Zijian Li , Wenqiang Sun , Tailin Zhou , Yuchang Sun , Lumin Liu , Zehong Lin , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Secure aggregation is a critical component in federated learning (FL), which enables the server to learn the aggregate model of the users without observing their local models. Conventionally, secure aggregation algorithms focus only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jinhyun So , Ramy E. Ali , Basak Guler , Jiantao Jiao , Salman Avestimehr

Learning and compression are driven by the common aim of identifying and exploiting statistical regularities in data, which opens the door for fertile collaboration between these areas. A promising group of compression techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fernando E. Rosas , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Michael Gastpar

There is an increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The main cause seems to lie in the fundamental disconnection between theory and practice in data analysis. While the former typically relies on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-06 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar , Ibrahim Issa

With the growing emphasis on users' privacy, federated learning has become more and more popular. Many architectures have been raised for a better security. Most architecture work on the assumption that data's gradient could not leak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhaorui Li , Zhicong Huang , Chaochao Chen , Cheng Hong

Federated Learning (FL) is a widely adopted privacy-preserving machine learning approach where private data remains local, enabling secure computations and the exchange of local model gradients between local clients and third-party…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning as a service have become the status quo for many industries, leading to the widespread deployment of models that handle sensitive data. Well-performing models, the industry seeks,…

In this work, we propose information laundering, a novel framework for enhancing model privacy. Unlike data privacy that concerns the protection of raw data information, model privacy aims to protect an already-learned model that is to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xinran Wang , Yu Xiang , Jun Gao , Jie Ding

While being deployed in many critical applications as core components, machine learning (ML) models are vulnerable to various security and privacy attacks. One major privacy attack in this domain is membership inference, where an adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yang Zou , Zhikun Zhang , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Auditing mechanisms for differential privacy use probabilistic means to empirically estimate the privacy level of an algorithm. For private machine learning, existing auditing mechanisms are tight: the empirical privacy estimate (nearly)…

With the increasing demands for privacy protection, privacy-preserving machine learning has been drawing much attention in both academia and industry. However, most existing methods have their limitations in practical applications. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Fei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Xiaolin Zheng , Mingjie Zhu

Machine learning models are increasingly made available to the masses through public query interfaces. Recent academic work has demonstrated that malicious users who can query such models are able to infer sensitive information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Yunhui Long , Vincent Bindschaedler , Carl A. Gunter

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

Pointwise maximal leakage (PML) is an operationally meaningful privacy measure that quantifies the amount of information leaking about a secret $X$ to a single outcome of a related random variable $Y$. In this paper, we extend the notion of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sara Saeidian , Giulia Cervia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

We present a framework to statistically audit the privacy guarantee conferred by a differentially private machine learner in practice. While previous works have taken steps toward evaluating privacy loss through poisoning attacks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fred Lu , Joseph Munoz , Maya Fuchs , Tyler LeBlond , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , Brian Testa

Deep ensemble learning has been shown to improve accuracy by training multiple neural networks and averaging their outputs. Ensemble learning has also been suggested to defend against membership inference attacks that undermine privacy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shahbaz Rezaei , Zubair Shafiq , Xin Liu

In federated learning (FL), a machine learning (ML) model is collectively trained by a large number of users, using their private data in their local devices. With top $r$ sparsification in FL, the users only upload the most significant $r$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

Over the past few years, providers such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have started to provide customers with access to software interfaces allowing them to easily embed machine learning tasks into their applications. Overall,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Emiliano De Cristofaro