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Transfer learning allows us to train deep architectures requiring a large number of learned parameters, even if the amount of available data is limited, by leveraging existing models previously trained for another task. Here we explore the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Natalie Best , Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead

Purveyors of malicious network attacks continue to increase the complexity and the sophistication of their techniques, and their ability to evade detection continues to improve as well. Hence, intrusion detection systems must also evolve to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Ahmed Shafee , Mohamed Baza , Douglas A. Talbert , Mostafa M. Fouda , Mahmoud Nabil , Mohamed Mahmoud

Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful methodology for adapting pre-trained deep neural networks on image recognition tasks to new domains. This process consists of taking a neural network pre-trained on a large feature-rich source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Francisco Utrera , Evan Kravitz , N. Benjamin Erichson , Rajiv Khanna , Michael W. Mahoney

This study investigates the privacy risks associated with text embeddings, focusing on the scenario where attackers cannot access the original embedding model. Contrary to previous research requiring direct model access, we explore a more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yu-Hsiang Huang , Yuche Tsai , Hsiang Hsiao , Hong-Yi Lin , Shou-De Lin

In this paper, we propose an encryption method for ConvMixer models with a secret key. Encryption methods for DNN models have been studied to achieve adversarial defense, model protection and privacy-preserving image classification.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ryota Iijima , Hitoshi Kiya

Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nermeen Abou Baker , Nico Zengeler , Uwe Handmann

This paper proposes a novel privacy-preserving semantic segmentation method that can use independent keys for each client and image. In the proposed method, the model creator and each client encrypt images using locally generated keys, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mare Hirose , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya

This paper addresses the privacy and security concerns associated with deep neural language models, which serve as crucial components in various modern AI-based applications. These models are often used after being pre-trained and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Abhijit Mishra , Mingda Li , Soham Deo

Obtaining a well-trained model involves expensive data collection and training procedures, therefore the model is a valuable intellectual property. Recent studies revealed that adversaries can `steal' deployed models even when they have no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yiming Li , Linghui Zhu , Xiaojun Jia , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia , Xiaochun Cao

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Practitioners commonly download pretrained machine learning models from open repositories and finetune them to fit specific applications. We show that this practice introduces a new risk of privacy backdoors. By tampering with a pretrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shanglun Feng , Florian Tramèr

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

Transfer learning is a widely used method to build high performing computer vision models. In this paper, we study the efficacy of transfer learning by examining how the choice of data impacts performance. We find that more pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Jiquan Ngiam , Daiyi Peng , Vijay Vasudevan , Simon Kornblith , Quoc V. Le , Ruoming Pang

Transfer learning has become a common solution to address training data scarcity in practice. It trains a specified student model by reusing or fine-tuning early layers of a well-trained teacher model that is usually publicly available.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Cong Wang , Yang Zhang

We consider the problem of secret protection, in which a business or organization wishes to train a model on their own data, while attempting to not leak secrets potentially contained in that data via the model. The standard method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Arun Ganesh , Brendan McMahan , Milad Nasr , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Current methods for reconstructing training data from trained classifiers are restricted to very small models, limited training set sizes, and low-resolution images. Such restrictions hinder their applicability to real-world scenarios. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yakir Oz , Gilad Yehudai , Gal Vardi , Itai Antebi , Michal Irani , Niv Haim

Training large transformer models from scratch for a target task requires lots of data and is computationally demanding. The usual practice of transfer learning overcomes this challenge by initializing the model with weights of a pretrained…

The network-based machine learning algorithm is very powerful tools. However, it requires huge training dataset. Researchers often meet privacy issues when they collect image dataset especially for surveillance applications. A learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Masayuki Tanaka

A trained neural network model contains information on the training data. Given such a model, malicious parties can leverage the "knowledge" in this model and design ways to print out any usable information (known as model inversion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jiageng Zheng

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat for training neural networks as they surreptitiously introduce hidden functionalities into a model. Such backdoors remain silent during inference on clean inputs, evading detection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lukas Struppek , Martin B. Hentschel , Clifton Poth , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting