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Deep learning on graph structures has shown exciting results in various applications. However, few attentions have been paid to the robustness of such models, in contrast to numerous research work for image or text adversarial attack and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hanjun Dai , Hui Li , Tian Tian , Xin Huang , Lin Wang , Jun Zhu , Le Song

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in graph representation learning and have been applied to various domains. However, many real-world graphs contain sensitive personal information, such as user profiles in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Longzhu He , Chaozhuo Li , Peng Tang , Li Sun , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu

Collaborative machine learning settings like federated learning can be susceptible to adversarial interference and attacks. One class of such attacks is termed model inversion attacks, characterised by the adversary reverse-engineering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dmitrii Usynin , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Previous security research efforts orbiting around graphs have been exclusively focusing on either (de-)anonymizing the graphs or understanding the security and privacy issues of graph neural networks. Little attention has been paid to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yun Shen , Yufei Han , Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Ting Yu , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang , Gianluca Stringhini

Graph-based Neural Networks (GNNs) are recent models created for learning representations of nodes (and graphs), which have achieved promising results when detecting patterns that occur in large-scale data relating different entities. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ronald D. R. Pereira , Fabrício Murai

Machine unlearning is motivated by desire for data autonomy: a person can request to have their data's influence removed from deployed models, and those models should be updated as if they were retrained without the person's data. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Martin Bertran , Shuai Tang , Michael Kearns , Jamie Morgenstern , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

With the increasing adoption of AI, inherent security and privacy vulnerabilities formachine learning systems are being discovered. One such vulnerability makes itpossible for an adversary to obtain private information about the types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Samyadeep Basu , Rauf Izmailov , Chris Mesterharm

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted much attention due to their ability to leverage the intrinsic geometries of the underlying data. Although many different types of GNN models have been developed, with many benchmarking procedures…

With the fast adoption of machine learning (ML) techniques, sharing of ML models is becoming popular. However, ML models are vulnerable to privacy attacks that leak information about the training data. In this work, we focus on a particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-06 Xiuling Wang , Wendy Hui Wang

With increasing concerns about privacy attacks and potential sensitive information leakage, researchers have actively explored methods to efficiently remove sensitive training data and reduce privacy risks in graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Faqian Guan , Tianqing Zhu , Zhoutian Wang , Wei Ren , Wanlei Zhou

We describe a threat model under which a split network-based federated learning system is susceptible to a model inversion attack by a malicious computational server. We demonstrate that the attack can be successfully performed with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tom Titcombe , Adam J. Hall , Pavlos Papadopoulos , Daniele Romanini

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing a significant threat to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zhiwei Zhang , Minhua Lin , Junjie Xu , Zongyu Wu , Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have gained significant popularity in the last decade for solving narrow AI problems in domains such as healthcare, transportation, and defense. As ANNs become more ubiquitous, it is imperative to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tommy Li , Cory Merkel

This paper investigates a class of attacks targeting the confidentiality aspect of security in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies. Recent research have established the vulnerability of supervised machine learning models (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Vahid Behzadan , William Hsu

Large Language Models are typically trained on datasets collected from the web, which may inadvertently contain harmful or sensitive personal information. To address growing privacy concerns, unlearning methods have been proposed to remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoyu Wu , Yifei Pang , Terrance Liu , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), including Homogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HomoGNNs) and Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HeteGNNs), have made remarkable progress in many physical scenarios, especially in communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Renyang Liu , Wei Zhou , Jinhong Zhang , Xiaoyuan Liu , Peiyuan Si , Haoran Li

Model extraction (ME) attacks represent one major threat to Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) platforms by ``stealing'' the functionality of confidential machine-learning models through querying black-box APIs. Over seven years have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jiacheng Liang , Ren Pang , Changjiang Li , Ting Wang

In model extraction attacks, adversaries can steal a machine learning model exposed via a public API by repeatedly querying it and adjusting their own model based on obtained predictions. To prevent model stealing, existing defenses focus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Adam Dziedzic , Muhammad Ahmad Kaleem , Yu Shen Lu , Nicolas Papernot

Machine learning (ML) models may be deemed confidential due to their sensitive training data, commercial value, or use in security applications. Increasingly often, confidential ML models are being deployed with publicly accessible query…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Florian Tramèr , Fan Zhang , Ari Juels , Michael K. Reiter , Thomas Ristenpart

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered significant attention from researchers due to their outstanding performance in handling graph-related tasks, such as social network analysis, protein design, and so on. Despite their widespread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Xiao Lin , Mingjie Li , Yisen Wang