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Neural network-based image classifiers are powerful tools for computer vision tasks, but they inadvertently reveal sensitive attribute information about their classes, raising concerns about their privacy. To investigate this privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Felix Friedrich , Manuel Brack , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting

Deep learning has attracted broad interest in healthcare and medical communities. However, there has been little research into the privacy issues created by deep networks trained for medical applications. Recently developed inference attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Maoqiang Wu , Xinyue Zhang , Jiahao Ding , Hien Nguyen , Rong Yu , Miao Pan , Stephen T. Wong

The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. An important class of attack on anonymized data is attribute inference, where an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Paul Francis , David Wagner

The prosperity of machine learning has also brought people's concerns about data privacy. Among them, inference attacks can implement privacy breaches in various MLaaS scenarios and model training/prediction phases. Specifically, inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Feng Wu , Lei Cui , Shaowen Yao , Shui Yu

Recent years have witnessed the tremendous success of diffusion models in data synthesis. However, when diffusion models are applied to sensitive data, they also give rise to severe privacy concerns. In this paper, we systematically present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Hailong Hu , Jun Pang

We introduce a new class of attacks on machine learning models. We show that an adversary who can poison a training dataset can cause models trained on this dataset to leak significant private details of training points belonging to other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Florian Tramèr , Reza Shokri , Ayrton San Joaquin , Hoang Le , Matthew Jagielski , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini

How much does a machine learning algorithm leak about its training data, and why? Membership inference attacks are used as an auditing tool to quantify this leakage. In this paper, we present a comprehensive \textit{hypothesis testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jiayuan Ye , Aadyaa Maddi , Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Vincent Bindschaedler , Reza Shokri

Federated learning is a common method for privacy-preserving training of machine learning models. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerability of ASR models to attribute inference attacks in the federated setting. We test a non-parametric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Hamdan Al-Ali , Ali Reza Ghavamipour , Tommaso Caselli , Fatih Turkmen , Zeerak Talat , Hanan Aldarmaki

Transfer learning is a popular method for tuning pretrained (upstream) models for different downstream tasks using limited data and computational resources. We study how an adversary with control over an upstream model used in transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yulong Tian , Fnu Suya , Anshuman Suri , Fengyuan Xu , David Evans

Privacy attacks on Machine Learning (ML) models often focus on inferring the existence of particular data points in the training data. However, what the adversary really wants to know is if a particular individual's (subject's) data was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Anshuman Suri , Pallika Kanani , Virendra J. Marathe , Daniel W. Peterson

Member inference (MI) attacks aim to determine if a specific data sample was used to train a machine learning model. Thus, MI is a major privacy threat to models trained on private sensitive data, such as medical records. In MI attacks one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Gilad Cohen , Raja Giryes

Many deployed learned models are black boxes: given input, returns output. Internal information about the model, such as the architecture, optimisation procedure, or training data, is not disclosed explicitly as it might contain proprietary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Seong Joon Oh , Max Augustin , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Machine learning models, especially deep neural networks have been shown to be susceptible to privacy attacks such as membership inference where an adversary can detect whether a data point was used for training a black-box model. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Shruti Tople , Amit Sharma , Aditya Nori

Machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference attacks in which an adversary aims to predict whether or not a particular sample was contained in the target model's training dataset. Existing attack methods have commonly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Yiyong Liu , Zhengyu Zhao , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can fool a target classifier by imposing imperceptible perturbations onto natural examples. In this work, we consider the practical and challenging decision-based black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Qi-An Fu , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

While being deployed in many critical applications as core components, machine learning (ML) models are vulnerable to various security and privacy attacks. One major privacy attack in this domain is membership inference, where an adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yang Zou , Zhikun Zhang , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Inference attacks against Machine Learning (ML) models allow adversaries to learn sensitive information about training data, model parameters, etc. While researchers have studied, in depth, several kinds of attacks, they have done so in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yugeng Liu , Rui Wen , Xinlei He , Ahmed Salem , Zhikun Zhang , Michael Backes , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Mario Fritz , Yang Zhang

Despite the recent advances in a wide spectrum of applications, machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Attackers add carefully-crafted perturbations to input, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Ninghao Liu , Mengnan Du , Ruocheng Guo , Huan Liu , Xia Hu

As machine learning (ML) becomes more and more powerful and easily accessible, attackers increasingly leverage ML to perform automated large-scale inference attacks in various domains. In such an ML-equipped inference attack, an attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong