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Today's success of state of the art methods for semantic segmentation is driven by large datasets. Data is considered an important asset that needs to be protected, as the collection and annotation of such datasets comes at significant…

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Models can expose sensitive information about their training data. In an attribute inference attack, an adversary has partial knowledge of some training records and access to a model trained on those records, and infers the unknown values…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans

Adversarial Training (AT) is crucial for obtaining deep neural networks that are robust to adversarial attacks, yet recent works found that it could also make models more vulnerable to privacy attacks. In this work, we further reveal this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jingyang Zhang , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

The use of personal data for training machine learning systems comes with a privacy threat and measuring the level of privacy of a model is one of the major challenges in machine learning today. Identifying training data based on a trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ganesh Del Grosso , Hamid Jalalzai , Georg Pichler , Catuscia Palamidessi , Pablo Piantanida

The use of machine learning (ML) has become increasingly prevalent in various domains, highlighting the importance of understanding and ensuring its safety. One pressing concern is the vulnerability of ML applications to model stealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ganghua Wang , Yuhong Yang , Jie Ding

As data are increasingly being stored in different silos and societies becoming more aware of data privacy issues, the traditional centralized training of artificial intelligence (AI) models is facing efficiency and privacy challenges.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lingjuan Lyu , Han Yu , Xingjun Ma , Chen Chen , Lichao Sun , Jun Zhao , Qiang Yang , Philip S. Yu

Transfer learning has become a common practice for training deep learning models with limited labeled data in a target domain. On the other hand, deep models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Though transfer learning has been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yinghua Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Jian Liang , Kun Bai , Qiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) was originally regarded as a framework for collaborative learning among clients with data privacy protection through a coordinating server. In this paper, we propose a new active membership inference (AMI) attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Truc Nguyen , Phung Lai , Khang Tran , NhatHai Phan , My T. Thai

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel privacy-protection distributed machine learning paradigm that guarantees user privacy and prevents the risk of data leakage due to the advantage of the client's local training. Researchers have struggled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kangkang Sun , Xiaojin Zhang , Xi Lin , Gaolei Li , Jing Wang , Jianhua Li

In machine learning, curation is used to select the most valuable data for improving both model accuracy and computational efficiency. Recently, curation has also been explored as a solution for private machine learning: rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dariush Wahdany , Matthew Jagielski , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

A typical setup in many machine learning scenarios involves a server that holds a model and a user that possesses data, and the challenge is to perform inference while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. Private Inference has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Netanel Raviv

Healthcare is one of the foremost applications of machine learning (ML). Traditionally, ML models are trained by central servers, which aggregate data from various distributed devices to forecast the results for newly generated data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sankalp Vyas , Amar Nath Patra , Raj Mani Shukla

Algorithmic fairness and privacy are essential pillars of trustworthy machine learning. Fair machine learning aims at minimizing discrimination against protected groups by, for example, imposing a constraint on models to equalize their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Hongyan Chang , Reza Shokri

Deep learning models for time series imputation are now essential in fields such as healthcare, the Internet of Things (IoT), and finance. However, their deployment raises critical privacy concerns. Beyond the well-known issue of unintended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Faiz Taleb , Ivan Gazeau , Maryline Laurent

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

In several jurisdictions, the regulatory framework on the release and sharing of personal data is being extended to machine learning (ML). The implicit assumption is that disclosing a trained ML model entails a privacy risk for any personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Federated learning (FL) is a widely used method for training machine learning (ML) models in a scalable way while preserving privacy (i.e., without centralizing raw data). Prior research shows that the risk of exposing sensitive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Andras Ferenczi , Sutapa Samanta , Dagen Wang , Todd Hodges

Federated learning (FL) emerged as a paradigm designed to improve data privacy by enabling data to reside at its source, thus embedding privacy as a core consideration in FL architectures, whether centralized or decentralized. Contrasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Mads Græsbøll Christensen , Richard Heusdens

Most machine learning applications rely on centralized learning processes, opening up the risk of exposure of their training datasets. While federated learning (FL) mitigates to some extent these privacy risks, it relies on a trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Georgios Syros , Gokberk Yar , Simona Boboila , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

Vertical federated learning is considered, where an active party, having access to true class labels, wishes to build a classification model by utilizing more features from a passive party, which has no access to the labels, to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Borzoo Rassouli , Morteza Varasteh , Deniz Gunduz