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Many safety-critical applications of machine learning, such as fraud or abuse detection, use data in tabular domains. Adversarial examples can be particularly damaging for these applications. Yet, existing works on adversarial robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Klim Kireev , Bogdan Kulynych , Carmela Troncoso

Membership inference attack (MIA) has become one of the most widely used and effective methods for evaluating the privacy risks of machine learning models. These attacks aim to determine whether a specific sample is part of the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jing Xue , Zhishen Sun , Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Xiangyu Chang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Adversarial training was introduced as a way to improve the robustness of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. This training method improves robustness against adversarial attacks, but increases the models vulnerability to privacy…

Vertical federated learning is considered, where an active party, having access to true class labels, wishes to build a classification model by utilizing more features from a passive party, which has no access to the labels, to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Borzoo Rassouli , Morteza Varasteh , Deniz Gunduz

Adversarial attacks on deep-learning models pose a serious threat to their reliability and security. Existing defense mechanisms are narrow addressing a specific type of attack or being vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mouna Rabhi , Roberto Di Pietro

Tabular data synthesis using diffusion models has gained significant attention for its potential to balance data utility and privacy. However, existing privacy evaluations often rely on heuristic metrics or weak membership inference attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xiaoyu Wu , Yifei Pang , Terrance Liu , Steven Wu

Despite significant advances, deep networks remain highly susceptible to adversarial attack. One fundamental challenge is that small input perturbations can often produce large movements in the network's final-layer feature space. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Dravyansh Sharma , Hongyang Zhang

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to confuse the model into making a mistake. Such examples pose a serious threat to the applicability of machine-learning-based systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peiyu Xiong , Michael Tegegn , Jaskeerat Singh Sarin , Shubhraneel Pal , Julia Rubin

Attacks on Federated Learning (FL) can severely reduce the quality of the generated models and limit the usefulness of this emerging learning paradigm that enables on-premise decentralized learning. However, existing untargeted attacks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jiyue Huang , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Y. Chen , Stefanie Roos

A significant threat to the recent, wide deployment of machine learning-based systems, including deep neural networks (DNNs), is adversarial learning attacks. We analyze possible test-time evasion-attack mechanisms and show that, in some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-29 David J. Miller , Yulia Wang , George Kesidis

Traditional security detection methods face three key challenges: inadequate data collection that misses critical security events, resource-intensive monitoring systems, and poor detection algorithms with high false positive rates. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Limin Wang , Lei Bu , Muzimiao Zhang , Shihong Cang , Kai Ye

A Membership Inference Attack (MIA) assesses how much a target machine learning model reveals about its training data by determining whether specific query instances were part of the training set. State-of-the-art MIAs rely on training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuntao Du , Yuetian Chen , Hanshen Xiao , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

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

In the context of the growing proliferation of user devices and the concurrent surge in data volumes, the complexities arising from the substantial increase in data have posed formidable challenges to conventional machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Eyad Gad , Zubair Md Fadlullah , Mostafa M. Fouda

Adversarial attacks in machine learning have been extensively reviewed in areas like computer vision and NLP, but research on tabular data remains scattered. This paper provides the first systematic literature review focused on adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Salijona Dyrmishi , Mohamed Djilani , Thibault Simonetto , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy

Sybil attacks pose a significant threat to federated learning, as malicious nodes can collaborate and gain a majority, thereby overwhelming the system. Therefore, it is essential to develop countermeasures that ensure the security of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qi Xiong , Hai Dong , Nasrin Sohrabi , Zahir Tari

Deep learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where slight perturbations to input data lead to misclassification. Adversarial attacks become increasingly effective with access to information about the targeted classifier. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Yu Zhe , Rei Nagaike , Daiki Nishiyama , Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma

Full-precision deep learning models are typically too large or costly to deploy on edge devices. To accommodate to the limited hardware resources, models are adapted to the edge using various edge-adaptation techniques, such as quantization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Wei Hao , Aahil Awatramani , Jiayang Hu , Chengzhi Mao , Pin-Chun Chen , Eyal Cidon , Asaf Cidon , Junfeng Yang

Deep learning models achieve remarkable accuracy in computer vision tasks, yet remain vulnerable to adversarial examples--carefully crafted perturbations to input images that can deceive these models into making confident but incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Khoi Nguyen Tiet Nguyen , Wenyu Zhang , Kangkang Lu , Yuhuan Wu , Xingjian Zheng , Hui Li Tan , Liangli Zhen

Deep Learning based AI systems have shown great promise in various domains such as vision, audio, autonomous systems (vehicles, drones), etc. Recent research on neural networks has shown the susceptibility of deep networks to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Sambuddha Saha , Aashish Kumar , Pratyush Sahay , George Jose , Srinivas Kruthiventi , Harikrishna Muralidhara