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Machine learning models are vulnerable to both security attacks (e.g., adversarial examples) and privacy attacks (e.g., private attribute inference). We take the first step to mitigate both the security and privacy attacks, and maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Binghui Zhang , Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Yun Dong , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that are elaborately designed for malicious purposes and are imperceptible to the human perceptual system. Autoencoder, when trained solely over benign examples, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zhaoxi Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xufei Zheng , Jinyu Tian , Jiantao Zhou

Autoregressive models recently achieved comparable results versus state-of-the-art Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with the help of Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE). However, autoregressive models have several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Kenan E. Ak , Ning Xu , Zhe Lin , Yilin Wang

DeepFake is becoming a real risk to society and brings potential threats to both individual privacy and political security due to the DeepFaked multimedia are realistic and convincing. However, the popular DeepFake passive detection is an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Run Wang , Ziheng Huang , Zhikai Chen , Li Liu , Jing Chen , Lina Wang

We demonstrate that modern image recognition methods based on artificial neural networks can recover hidden information from images protected by various forms of obfuscation. The obfuscation techniques considered in this paper are mosaicing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Richard McPherson , Reza Shokri , Vitaly Shmatikov

Recommendation is one of the critical applications that helps users find information relevant to their interests. However, a malicious attacker can infer users' private information via recommendations. Prior work obfuscates user-item data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ghazaleh Beigi , Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Ruocheng Guo , Hamidreza Alvari , Alexander Nou , Huan Liu

In today's data-driven analytics landscape, deep learning has become a powerful tool, with latent representations, known as embeddings, playing a central role in several applications. In the face analytics domain, such embeddings are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Arjun Ramesh Kaushik , Bharat Chandra Yalavarthi , Arun Ross , Vishnu Boddeti , Nalini Ratha

Federated learning (FL) has been widely studied recently due to its property to collaboratively train data from different devices without sharing the raw data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that an adversary can still be possible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Caridad Arroyo Arevalo , Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Yun Dong , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Reconstructing high-quality images from low-resolution inputs using Residual Dense Spatial Networks (RDSNs) is crucial yet challenging. It is even more challenging in centralized training where multiple collaborating parties are involved,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peilin He , James Joshi

Recently, researchers have successfully employed Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to build enhanced recommender systems due to their capability to learn patterns from the interaction between involved entities. In addition, previous studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Marco Arazzi , Mauro Conti , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved significant success across multiple computer vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to carefully crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial noise patterns which constrain their deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Aamir Mustafa , Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent studies indicate that private training data can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum

With the increasing prevalence of cloud computing platforms, ensuring data privacy during the cloud-based image related services such as classification has become crucial. In this study, we propose a novel privacypreserving image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jun Liu , Jiantao Zhou , Jinyu Tian , Weiwei Sun

Safe reinforcement learning (Safe RL) aims to ensure policy performance while satisfying safety constraints. However, most existing Safe RL methods assume benign environments, making them vulnerable to adversarial perturbations commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jialiang Fan , Shixiong Jiang , Mengyu Liu , Fanxin Kong

Side-channel attacks that use machine learning (ML) for signal analysis have become prominent threats to computer security, as ML models easily find patterns in signals. To address this problem, this paper explores using Adversarial Machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hyoungwook Nam , Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi , Bo Li , Nam Sung Kim , Josep Torrellas

In this paper, we propose a novel generative model-based attack on learnable image encryption methods proposed for privacy-preserving deep learning. Various learnable encryption methods have been studied to protect the sensitive visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Hitoshi Kiya

In the era of cloud computing and data-driven applications, it is crucial to protect sensitive information to maintain data privacy, ensuring truly reliable systems. As a result, preserving privacy in deep learning systems has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Fabian Perez , Jhon Lopez , Henry Arguello

Attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied through stateless optimization. In this paper, we demonstrate how a reinforcement learning (RL) agent can learn a new class of attack algorithms that generate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kyle Domico , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Ryan Sheatsley , Eric Pauley , Josiah Hanna , Patrick McDaniel

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Adversarial examples in machine learning for images are widely publicized and explored. Illustrations of misclassifications caused by slightly perturbed inputs are abundant and commonly known (e.g., a picture of panda imperceptibly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-22 Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic , Rob Miller , Nicholas Chang , Chi Leung Lau