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Deep generative models have gained much attention given their ability to generate data for applications as varied as healthcare to financial technology to surveillance, and many more - the most popular models being generative adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Hui Sun , Tianqing Zhu , Zhiqiu Zhang , Dawei Jin. Ping Xiong , Wanlei Zhou

Collaborative machine learning settings like federated learning can be susceptible to adversarial interference and attacks. One class of such attacks is termed model inversion attacks, characterised by the adversary reverse-engineering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dmitrii Usynin , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

We study model extraction attacks in natural language processing (NLP) where attackers aim to steal victim models by repeatedly querying the open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Recent works focus on limited-query budget settings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chengwei Dai , Minxuan Lv , Kun Li , Wei Zhou

Model extraction attacks aim to replicate the functionality of a black-box model through query access, threatening the intellectual property (IP) of machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) providers. Defending against such attacks is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xueqi Cheng , Minxing Zheng , Shixiang Zhu , Yushun Dong

Gradient leakage has been identified as a potential source of privacy breaches in modern image processing systems, where the adversary can completely reconstruct the training images from leaked gradients. However, existing methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li

Model extraction attacks are a kind of attacks where an adversary obtains a machine learning model whose performance is comparable with one of the victim model through queries and their results. This paper presents a novel model extraction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Masataka Tasumi , Kazuki Iwahana , Naoto Yanai , Katsunari Shishido , Toshiya Shimizu , Yuji Higuchi , Ikuya Morikawa , Jun Yajima

Many of today's machine learning (ML) systems are built by reusing an array of, often pre-trained, primitive models, each fulfilling distinct functionality (e.g., feature extraction). The increasing use of primitive models significantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yujie Ji , Xinyang Zhang , Shouling Ji , Xiapu Luo , Ting Wang

Machine learning models trained on confidential datasets are increasingly being deployed for profit. Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has made such models easily accessible to end-users. Prior work has developed model extraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Soham Pal , Yash Gupta , Aditya Shukla , Aditya Kanade , Shirish Shevade , Vinod Ganapathy

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models generate meaningful representations of given clips and achieve incredible performance across various downstream tasks. Model extraction attack (MEA) often refers to an adversary stealing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Chen-An Li , Tung-Yu Wu , Hung-yi Lee

Recent work has shown that gradient updates in federated learning (FL) can unintentionally reveal sensitive information about a client's local data. This risk becomes significantly greater when a malicious server manipulates the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Fei Wang , Baochun Li

Federated learning is considered as an effective privacy-preserving learning mechanism that separates the client's data and model training process. However, federated learning is still under the risk of privacy leakage because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yuxuan Wan , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu , Jie Ren , Wenqi Fan , Jiliang Tang

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky

Machine Learning models, extensively used for various multimedia applications, are offered to users as a blackbox service on the Cloud on a pay-per-query basis. Such blackbox models are commercially valuable to adversaries, making them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Vasisht Duddu , D. Vijay Rao

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has gained important attraction as a means for deploying powerful predictive models, offering ease of use that enables organizations to leverage advanced analytics without substantial investments in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Fatima Ezzeddine , Rinad Akel , Ihab Sbeity , Silvia Giordano , Marc Langheinrich , Omran Ayoub

The popularity of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has led to increased concerns about Model Stealing Attacks (MSA), which aim to craft a clone model by querying MLaaS. Currently, most research on MSA assumes that MLaaS can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xiaojian Yuan , Kejiang Chen , Wen Huang , Jie Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Models leak information about their training data. This enables attackers to infer sensitive information about their training sets, notably determine if a data sample was part of the model's training set. The existing works empirically show…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-18 Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Reza Shokri , George Theodorakopoulos

Cloud service providers have launched Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) platforms to allow users to access large-scale cloudbased models via APIs. In addition to prediction outputs, these APIs can also provide other information in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Yongjie Wang , Hangwei Qian , Chunyan Miao

Model extraction is a severe threat to Machine Learning-as-a-Service systems, especially through data-free approaches, where dishonest users can replicate the functionality of a black-box target model without access to realistic data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dat-Thinh Nguyen , Kim-Hung Le , Nhien-An Le-Khac

In recent years, machine learning algorithms have been applied widely in various fields such as health, transportation, and the autonomous car. With the rapid developments of deep learning techniques, it is critical to take the security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 erhat Ozgur Catak , Samed Sivaslioglu , Kevser Sahinbas