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Anonymizing sensitive information in user text is essential for privacy, yet existing methods often apply uniform treatment across attributes, which can conflict with communicative intent and obscure necessary information. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Weihao Shen , Yaxin Xu , Shuang Li , Wei Chen , Yuqin Lan , Meng Yuan , Fuzhen Zhuang

Anonymization of voice seeks to conceal the identity of the speaker while maintaining the utility of speech data. However, residual speaker cues often persist, which pose privacy risks. We propose SegReConcat, a data augmentation method for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ridwan Arefeen , Xiaoxiao Miao , Rong Tong , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See

When using a public communication channel--whether formal or informal, such as commenting or posting on social media--end users have no expectation of privacy: they compose a message and broadcast it for the world to see. Even if an end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Robert Dilworth

This work proposes a novel privacy-preserving neural network feature representation to suppress the sensitive information of a learned space while maintaining the utility of the data. The new international regulation for personal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana

Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safeguarding classifiers against adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of the classifier. These techniques characterize and eliminate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Raha Moraffah , Shubh Khandelwal , Amrita Bhattacharjee , Huan Liu

Written language contains stylistic cues that can be exploited to automatically infer a variety of potentially sensitive author information. Adversarial stylometry intends to attack such models by rewriting an author's text. Our research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Chris Emmery , Ákos Kádár , Grzegorz Chrupała

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown considerable success, especially in the realistic generation of images. In this work, we apply similar techniques for the generation of text. We propose a novel approach to handle the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Akshay Budhkar , Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla , Safwan Hossain , Frank Rudzicz

Voice anonymisation can be used to help protect speaker privacy when speech data is shared with untrusted others. In most practical applications, while the voice identity should be sanitised, other attributes such as the spoken content…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Michele Panariello , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

Information leakage is becoming a critical problem as various information becomes publicly available by mistake, and machine learning models train on that data to provide services. As a result, one's private information could easily be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Geon Heo , Steven Euijong Whang

Generating identity-preserving faces aims to generate various face images keeping the same identity given a target face image. Although considerable generative models have been developed in recent years, it is still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Zhigang Li , Yupin Luo

We present a method for generating synthetic versions of Twitter data using neural generative models. The goal is protecting individuals in the source data from stylometric re-identification attacks while still releasing data that carries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Alexander G. Ororbia , Fridolin Linder , Joshua Snoke

Artists are increasingly concerned about advancements in image generation models that can closely replicate their unique artistic styles. In response, several protection tools against style mimicry have been developed that incorporate small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Robert Hönig , Javier Rando , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr

With the development of large language models (LLMs), detecting whether text is generated by a machine becomes increasingly challenging in the face of malicious use cases like the spread of false information, protection of intellectual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ying Zhou , Ben He , Le Sun

Author name ambiguity causes inadequacy and inconvenience in academic information retrieval, which raises the necessity of author name disambiguation (AND). Existing AND methods can be divided into two categories: the models focusing on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Haiwen Wang , Ruijie Wang , Chuan Wen , Shuhao Li , Yuting Jia , Weinan Zhang , Xinbing Wang

The authorship attribution is a problem of considerable practical and technical interest. Several methods have been designed to infer the authorship of disputed documents in multiple contexts. While traditional statistical methods based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jeaneth Machicao , Edilson A. Corrêa , Gisele H. B. Miranda , Diego R. Amancio , Odemir M. Bruno

This study focused on efficient text generation using generative adversarial networks (GAN). Assuming that the goal is to generate a paragraph of a user-defined topic and sentimental tendency, conventionally the whole network has to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Chenhan Yuan , Yi-chin Huang , Cheng-Hung Tsai

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving content information in speech. Current mainstream neural-network speaker anonymization systems disentangle speech into prosody-related, content, and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Natalia Tomashenko

Adversarial samples are strategically modified samples, which are crafted with the purpose of fooling a classifier at hand. An attacker introduces specially crafted adversarial samples to a deployed classifier, which are being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Suranjana Samanta , Sameep Mehta

Adolescent suicide is a critical global health issue, and speech provides a cost-effective modality for automatic suicide risk detection. Given the vulnerable population, protecting speaker identity is particularly important, as speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Ziyun Cui , Sike Jia , Yang Lin , Yinan Duan , Diyang Qu , Runsen Chen , Chao Zhang , Chang Lei , Wen Wu

Authorship Verification (AV) is a text classification task concerned with inferring whether a candidate text has been written by one specific author or by someone else. It has been shown that many AV systems are vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Silvia Corbara , Alejandro Moreo