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We propose learning discrete structured representations from unlabeled data by maximizing the mutual information between a structured latent variable and a target variable. Calculating mutual information is intractable in this setting. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Karl Stratos , Sam Wiseman

Theoretical and applied research into privacy encompasses an incredibly broad swathe of differing approaches, emphasis and aims. This work introduces a new quantitative notion of privacy that is both contextual and specific. We argue that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Cameron Bell , Timothy Johnston , Antoine Luciano , Christian P Robert

This paper presents a client/server privacy-preserving network in the context of multicentric medical image analysis. Our approach is based on adversarial learning which encodes images to obfuscate the patient identity while preserving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Bach Ngoc Kim , Jose Dolz , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Christian Desrosiers

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Bias mitigation in machine learning models is imperative, yet challenging. While several approaches have been proposed, one view towards mitigating bias is through adversarial learning. A discriminator is used to identify the bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Vinod K Kurmi , Rishabh Sharma , Yash Vardhan Sharma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

We study privacy-aware communication over a wiretap channel using end-to-end learning. Alice wants to transmit a source signal to Bob over a binary symmetric channel, while passive eavesdropper Eve tries to infer some sensitive attribute of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

We present a practical method for protecting data during the inference phase of deep learning based on bipartite topology threat modeling and an interactive adversarial deep network construction. We term this approach \emph{Privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jianfeng Chi , Emmanuel Owusu , Xuwang Yin , Tong Yu , William Chan , Patrick Tague , Yuan Tian

Unsupervised learning is of growing interest because it unlocks the potential held in vast amounts of unlabelled data to learn useful representations for inference. Autoencoders, a form of generative model, may be trained by learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Antonia Creswell , Anil Anthony Bharath

The task of privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) currently faces two major unsolved challenges: (1) existing methods are typically effective only on specific face recognition models and struggle to generalize to black-box face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yuanwei Liu , Chengyu Jia , Ruqi Xiao , Xuemai Jia , Hui Wei , Kui Jiang , Zheng Wang

Machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance in many areas. However, the concerns that they can be biased against specific demographic groups hinder their adoption in high-stake applications. Thus, it is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Canyu Chen , Yueqing Liang , Xiongxiao Xu , Shangyu Xie , Ashish Kundu , Ali Payani , Yuan Hong , Kai Shu

Attacks that aim to identify the training data of public neural networks represent a severe threat to the privacy of individuals participating in the training data set. A possible protection is offered by anonymization of the training data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Daniel Bernau , Philip-William Grassal , Jonas Robl , Florian Kerschbaum

When applying differential privacy to sensitive data, we can often improve performance using external information such as other sensitive data, public data, or human priors. We propose to use the learning-augmented algorithms (or algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mikhail Khodak , Kareem Amin , Travis Dick , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Neural networks have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various machine learning fields. However, the introduction of malicious perturbations in input data, known as adversarial examples, has been shown to deceive neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Dennis Y. Menn , Tzu-hsun Feng , Hung-yi Lee

Differential privacy (DP) provides a provable framework for protecting individuals by customizing a random mechanism over a privacy-sensitive dataset. Deep learning models have demonstrated privacy risks in model exposure as an established…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yu Zheng , Wenchao Zhang , Yonggang Zhang , Yuxiang Peng , Wei Song , Kai Zhou , Xiaojiang Du , Bo Han

Edge-cloud collaborative inference empowers resource-limited IoT devices to support deep learning applications without disclosing their raw data to the cloud server, thus preserving privacy. Nevertheless, prior research has shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lin Duan , Jingwei Sun , Yiran Chen , Maria Gorlatova

Robust machine learning formulations have emerged to address the prevalent vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples. Our work draws the connection between optimal robust learning and the privacy-utility tradeoff…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ye Wang , Shuchin Aeron , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Pierre Moulin

Motivated by settings in which predictive models may be required to be non-discriminatory with respect to certain attributes (such as race), but even collecting the sensitive attribute may be forbidden or restricted, we initiate the study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Matthew Jagielski , Michael Kearns , Jieming Mao , Alina Oprea , Aaron Roth , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi , Jonathan Ullman

Privacy models were introduced in privacy-preserving data publishing and statistical disclosure control with the promise to end the need for costly empirical assessment of disclosure risk. We examine how well this promise is kept by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez

Machine learning (ML) is vulnerable to inference (e.g., membership inference, property inference, and data reconstruction) attacks that aim to infer the private information of training data or dataset. Existing defenses are only designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Binghui Zhang , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang