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Membership inference attack (MIA) poses a significant privacy threat in federated learning (FL) as it allows adversaries to determine whether a client's private dataset contains a specific data sample. While defenses against membership…

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Users like sharing personal photos with others through social media. At the same time, they might want to make automatic identification in such photos difficult or even impossible. Classic obfuscation methods such as blurring are not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Seong Joon Oh , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Large capacity machine learning (ML) models are prone to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer whether the target sample is a member of the target model's training dataset. The serious privacy concerns due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

Deep neural networks can be easily fooled into making incorrect predictions through corruption of the input by adversarial perturbations: human-imperceptible artificial noise. So far adversarial training has been the most successful defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Lin Li , Michael Spratling

Image-to-image translation models are shown to be vulnerable to the Membership Inference Attack (MIA), in which the adversary's goal is to identify whether a sample is used to train the model or not. With daily increasing applications based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Lanjun Wang , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang

Discrete adversarial attacks are symbolic perturbations to a language input that preserve the output label but lead to a prediction error. While such attacks have been extensively explored for the purpose of evaluating model robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Maor Ivgi , Jonathan Berant

Federated learning (FL) was originally regarded as a framework for collaborative learning among clients with data privacy protection through a coordinating server. In this paper, we propose a new active membership inference (AMI) attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Truc Nguyen , Phung Lai , Khang Tran , NhatHai Phan , My T. Thai

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

We address the problem of defending predictive models, such as machine learning classifiers (Defender models), against membership inference attacks, in both the black-box and white-box setting, when the trainer and the trained model are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Joseph Pedersen , Rafael Muñoz-Gómez , Jiangnan Huang , Haozhe Sun , Wei-Wei Tu , Isabelle Guyon

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) expose privacy risks by determining whether a specific sample was part of a model's training set. These threats are especially serious in sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance. Traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Javad Forough , Hamed Haddadi

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Supervised Finetuning (SFT) have become the predominant paradigms for equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with external knowledge for diverse, knowledge-intensive tasks. However, while such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haowei Fu , Bo Ni , Han Xu , Kunpeng Liu , Dan Lin , Tyler Derr

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are currently considered one of the main privacy attack strategies, and their defense mechanisms have also been extensively explored. However, there is still a gap between the existing defense approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xingli Fang , Jung-Eun Kim

Machine unlearning, enabling a trained model to forget specific data, is crucial for addressing erroneous data and adhering to privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)'s "right to be forgotten". Despite recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zihao Zhao , Yuchen Yang , Anjalie Field , Yinzhi Cao

It has been widely recognized that adversarial examples can be easily crafted to fool deep networks, which mainly root from the locally non-linear behavior nearby input examples. Applying mixup in training provides an effective mechanism to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Tianyu Pang , Kun Xu , Jun Zhu

Neural networks are susceptible to data inference attacks such as the model inversion attack and the membership inference attack, where the attacker could infer the reconstruction and the membership of a data sample from the confidence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Ziqi Yang , Bin Shao , Bohan Xuan , Ee-Chien Chang , Fan Zhang

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting that reduces direct data exposure, improving the privacy guarantees of machine learning models. Yet, the exchange of model updates between the participants and the aggregator can still leak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Pablo Montaña-Fernández , Ines Ortega-Fernandez

With an increase in low-cost machine learning APIs, advanced machine learning models may be trained on private datasets and monetized by providing them as a service. However, privacy researchers have demonstrated that these models may leak…

Backdoor attacks are an insidious security threat against machine learning models. Adversaries can manipulate the predictions of compromised models by inserting triggers into the training phase. Various backdoor attacks have been devised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xuanli He , Jun Wang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples deliberately constructed to misclassify victim models. As most adversarial examples have restricted their perturbations to $L_{p}$-norm, existing defense methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hanieh Naderi , Leili Goli , Shohreh Kasaei