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Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a Neural Network (NN) model on their private data without revealing the data. Recently, several targeted poisoning attacks against FL have been introduced. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Phillip Rieger , Thien Duc Nguyen , Markus Miettinen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Differentially private (DP) machine learning algorithms incur many sources of randomness, such as random initialization, random batch subsampling, and shuffling. However, such randomness is difficult to take into account when proving…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-02 Chendi Wang , Buxin Su , Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri , Weijie J. Su

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Benefiting from its superior feature learning capabilities and efficiency, deep hashing has achieved remarkable success in large-scale image retrieval. Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of deep hashing models to backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ziqi Zhou , Menghao Deng , Yufei Song , Hangtao Zhang , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Dezhong Yao

We introduce AdaMix, an adaptive differentially private algorithm for training deep neural network classifiers using both private and public image data. While pre-training language models on large public datasets has enabled strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Aditya Golatkar , Alessandro Achille , Yu-Xiang Wang , Aaron Roth , Michael Kearns , Stefano Soatto

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

Data augmentation is widely used to mitigate data bias in the training dataset. However, data augmentation exposes machine learning models to privacy attacks, such as membership inference attacks. In this paper, we propose an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhixin Pan , Emma Andrews , Laura Chang , Prabhat Mishra

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attack, which does not affect the network's performance on clean data but would manipulate the network behavior once a trigger pattern is added. Existing defense methods have greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Min Liu , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Xiangyu Yue

Malicious adversaries can attack machine learning models to infer sensitive information or damage the system by launching a series of evasion attacks. Although various work addresses privacy and security concerns, they focus on individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Janvi Thakkar , Giulio Zizzo , Sergio Maffeis

Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to introduce unexpected behaviors into machine learning models at training time. For text-to-image generative models with massive training datasets, current understanding of poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shawn Shan , Wenxin Ding , Josephine Passananti , Stanley Wu , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

In recent years, person Re-identification (ReID) has rapidly progressed with wide real-world applications, but also poses significant risks of adversarial attacks. In this paper, we focus on the backdoor attack on deep ReID models. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Wenli Sun , Xinyang Jiang , Shuguang Dou , Dongsheng Li , Duoqian Miao , Cheng Deng , Cairong Zhao

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) was shown to be vulnerable to patch-based data poisoning backdoor attacks. It was shown that an adversary can poison a small part of the unlabeled data so that when a victim trains an SSL model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ajinkya Tejankar , Maziar Sanjabi , Qifan Wang , Sinong Wang , Hamed Firooz , Hamed Pirsiavash , Liang Tan

With the advent of the era of big data, deep learning has become a prevalent building block in a variety of machine learning or data mining tasks, such as signal processing, network modeling and traffic analysis, to name a few. The massive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Zhiying Xu , Shuyu Shi , Alex X. Liu , Jun Zhao , Lin Chen

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

Differential privacy (DP) in deep learning is a critical concern as it ensures the confidentiality of training data while maintaining model utility. Existing DP training algorithms provide privacy guarantees by clipping and then injecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mingqian Feng , Zeliang Zhang , Jinyang Jiang , Yijie Peng , Chenliang Xu

A variety of explanation methods have been proposed in recent years to help users gain insights into the results returned by neural networks, which are otherwise complex and opaque black-boxes. However, explanations give rise to potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Pengrui Quan , Supriyo Chakraborty , Jeya Vikranth Jeyakumar , Mani Srivastava

Deep neural networks have played a crucial part in many critical domains, such as autonomous driving, face recognition, and medical diagnosis. However, deep neural networks are facing security threats from backdoor attacks and can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiyang Guan , Jian Liang , Ran He

Ensuring the privacy of sensitive training data is crucial in privacy-preserving machine learning. However, in practical scenarios, privacy protection may be required for only a subset of features. For instance, in ICU data, demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Linghui Zeng , Ruixuan Liu , Atiquer Rahman Sarkar , Xiaoqian Jiang , Joyce C. Ho , Li Xiong

Data poisoning and leakage risks impede the massive deployment of federated learning in the real world. This chapter reveals the truths and pitfalls of understanding two dominating threats: {\em training data privacy intrusion} and {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Wenqi Wei , Tiansheng Huang , Zachary Yahn , Anoop Singhal , Margaret Loper , Ling Liu