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Understanding the computational complexity of training simple neural networks with rectified linear units (ReLUs) has recently been a subject of intensive research. Closing gaps and complementing results from the literature, we present…

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We explore Reconstruction Robustness (ReRo), which was recently proposed as an upper bound on the success of data reconstruction attacks against machine learning models. Previous research has demonstrated that differential privacy (DP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Georgios Kaissis , Jamie Hayes , Alexander Ziller , Daniel Rueckert

Deep-learning-based methods for different applications have been shown vulnerable to adversarial examples. These examples make deployment of such models in safety-critical tasks questionable. Use of deep neural networks as inverse problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ankit Raj , Yoram Bresler , Bo Li

Collaborative learning has gained great popularity due to its benefit of data privacy protection: participants can jointly train a Deep Learning model without sharing their training sets. However, recent works discovered that an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wei Gao , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Han Qiu , Yonggang Wen , Yang Liu

Reinforcement learning algorithms are widely used in domains where it is desirable to provide a personalized service. In these domains it is common that user data contains sensitive information that needs to be protected from third parties.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Evrard Garcelon , Vianney Perchet , Ciara Pike-Burke , Matteo Pirotta

Reconstruction attacks and defenses are essential in understanding the data leakage problem in machine learning. However, prior work has centered around empirical observations of gradient inversion attacks, lacks theoretical grounding, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sheng Liu , Zihan Wang , Yuxiao Chen , Qi Lei

Recent research demonstrated that training large language models involves memorization of a significant fraction of training data. Such memorization can lead to privacy violations when training on sensitive user data and thus motivates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Vitaly Feldman , Guy Kornowski , Xin Lyu

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Many methods in differentially private model training rely on computing the similarity between a query point (such as public or synthetic data) and private data. We abstract out this common subroutine and study the following fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Arturs Backurs , Zinan Lin , Sepideh Mahabadi , Sandeep Silwal , Jakub Tarnawski

Differentially private (DP) machine learning allows us to train models on private data while limiting data leakage. DP formalizes this data leakage through a cryptographic game, where an adversary must predict if a model was trained on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Milad Nasr , Shuang Song , Abhradeep Thakurta , Nicolas Papernot , Nicholas Carlini

We formulate a private learning model to study an intrinsic tradeoff between privacy and query complexity in sequential learning. Our model involves a learner who aims to determine a scalar value, $v^*$, by sequentially querying an external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 John N. Tsitsiklis , Kuang Xu , Zhi Xu

The memorization of training data by neural networks raises pressing concerns for privacy and security. Recent work has shown that, under certain conditions, portions of the training set can be reconstructed directly from model parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yehonatan Refael , Guy Smorodinsky , Ofir Lindenbaum , Itay Safran

Document understanding models are increasingly employed by companies to supplant humans in processing sensitive documents, such as invoices, tax notices, or even ID cards. However, the robustness of such models to privacy attacks remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jérémie Dentan , Arnaud Paran , Aymen Shabou

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients without sharing raw data, ostensibly preserving data privacy. Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed critical vulnerabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Francesco Diana , André Nusser , Chuan Xu , Giovanni Neglia

As we seek to deploy machine learning models beyond virtual and controlled domains, it is critical to analyze not only the accuracy or the fact that it works most of the time, but if such a model is truly robust and reliable. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Samuel Henrique Silva , Peyman Najafirad

Machine unlearning is motivated by desire for data autonomy: a person can request to have their data's influence removed from deployed models, and those models should be updated as if they were retrained without the person's data. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Martin Bertran , Shuai Tang , Michael Kearns , Jamie Morgenstern , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We show new lower bounds on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer large sets of counting queries. A counting query on a database $D \in (\{0,1\}^d)^n$ has the form "What…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mark Bun , Jonathan Ullman , Salil Vadhan

\ac{fl} proposed a distributed \ac{ml} framework where every distributed worker owns a complete copy of global model and their own data. The training is occurred locally, which assures no direct transmission of training data. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jia Qian , Hiba Nassar , Lars Kai Hansen

Among existing privacy attacks on the gradient of neural networks, \emph{data reconstruction attack}, which reverse engineers the training batch from the gradient, poses a severe threat on the private training data. Despite its empirical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xudong Pan , Mi Zhang , Yifan Yan , Jiaming Zhu , Min Yang

We study the sample complexity of learning threshold functions under the constraint of differential privacy. It is assumed that each labeled example in the training data is the information of one individual and we would like to come up with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haim Kaplan , Katrina Ligett , Yishay Mansour , Moni Naor , Uri Stemmer