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High capacity and scalable memory systems play a vital role in enabling our desktops, smartphones, and pervasive technologies like Internet of Things (IoT). Unfortunately, memory systems are becoming increasingly prone to faults. This is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Prashant J. Nair

The development of quantum computers has been advancing rapidly in recent years. As quantum computers become more widely accessible, potentially malicious users could try to execute their code on the machines to leak information from other…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jerry Tan , Chuanqi Xu , Theodoros Trochatos , Jakub Szefer

This article provides a tool for analyzing mechanisms that aim to achieve resilience against stealthy, or undetectable, attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We consider attackers who are able to corrupt all of the inputs and outputs of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Paul Griffioen , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

The mass integration and deployment of intelligent technologies within critical commercial, industrial and public environments have a significant impact on business operations and society as a whole. Though integration of these critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Fahad Siddiqui , Matthew Hagan , Sakir Sezer

Prompt-based approaches offer a cutting-edge solution to data privacy issues in continual learning, particularly in scenarios involving multiple data suppliers where long-term storage of private user data is prohibited. Despite delivering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Trang Nguyen , Anh Tran , Nhat Ho

Simply restricting the computation to non-sensitive part of the data may lead to inferences on sensitive data through data dependencies. Inference control from data dependencies has been studied in the prior work. However, existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Primal Pappachan , Shufan Zhang , Xi He , Sharad Mehrotra

One of the data security and privacy concerns is of insider threats, where legitimate users of the system abuse the access privileges they hold. The insider threat to data security means that an insider steals or leaks sensitive personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Muhammad Imran Khan , Simon N. Foley , Barry O'Sullivan

Forgetting is often seen as an unwanted characteristic in both human and machine learning. However, we propose that forgetting can in fact be favorable to learning. We introduce "forget-and-relearn" as a powerful paradigm for shaping the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Hattie Zhou , Ankit Vani , Hugo Larochelle , Aaron Courville

Influence estimation tools -- such as memorization scores -- are widely used to understand model behavior, attribute training data, and inform dataset curation. However, recent applications in data valuation and responsible machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tue Do , Varun Chandrasekaran , Daniel Alabi

Cybersecurity has been a concern for quite a while now. In the latest years, cyberattacks have been increasing in size and complexity, fueled by significant advances in technology. Nowadays, there is an unavoidable necessity of protecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Tiago Dias , Nuno Oliveira , Norberto Sousa , Isabel Praça , Orlando Sousa

Rights provisioned within data protection regulations, permit patients to request that knowledge about their information be eliminated by data holders. With the advent of AI learned on data, one can imagine that such rights can extent to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Ruolin Su , Xiao Liu , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Solving cybersecurity issues requires a holistic understanding of components, factors, structures and their interactions in cyberspace, but conventional modeling approaches view the field of cybersecurity by their boundaries so that we are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Dingyu Yan

Security questions are one of the mechanisms used to recover passwords. Strong answers to security questions (i.e. high entropy) are hard for attackers to guess or obtain using social engineering techniques (e.g. monitoring of social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Nicholas Micallef , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Advances in data collection and data storage technologies have given way to the establishment of transactional databases among companies and organizations, as they allow enormous amounts of data to be stored efficiently. Useful knowledge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Vasileios Kagklis , Elias C. Stavropoulos , Vassilios S. Verykios

How much does a machine learning algorithm leak about its training data, and why? Membership inference attacks are used as an auditing tool to quantify this leakage. In this paper, we present a comprehensive \textit{hypothesis testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jiayuan Ye , Aadyaa Maddi , Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Vincent Bindschaedler , Reza Shokri

We introduce the notion of a database system that is information theoretically "Secure In Between Accesses"--a database system with the properties that 1) users can efficiently access their data, and 2) while a user is not accessing their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Gregory Valiant , Paul Valiant

Eavesdropping attacks in inference systems aim to learn not the raw data, but the system inferences to predict and manipulate system actions. We argue that conventional information security measures can be ambiguous on the adversary's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Chi-Yo Tsai , Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Large language models trained on web-scale corpora can memorize undesirable data containing misinformation, copyrighted material, or private or sensitive information. Recently, several machine unlearning algorithms have been proposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Keivan Rezaei , Khyathi Chandu , Soheil Feizi , Yejin Choi , Faeze Brahman , Abhilasha Ravichander

Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of particular data or class from trained models to meet privacy, legal, or ethical requirements. Existing unlearning methods tend to forget shallowly: phenomenon of an unlearned model pretend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jaeheun Jung , Bosung Jung , Suhyun Bae , Donghun Lee

Characterizing attacker behavior with respect to Cyber-Physical Systems is important to assuring the security posture and resilience of these systems. Classical cyber vulnerability assessment approaches rely on the knowledge and experience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Christopher Deloglos , Carl Elks , Ashraf Tantawy