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Unlearnable data (ULD) has emerged as an innovative defense technique to prevent machine learning models from learning meaningful patterns from specific data, thus protecting data privacy and security. By introducing perturbations to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jiahao Li , Yiqiang Chen , Yunbing Xing , Yang Gu , Xiangyuan Lan

With more people publishing their personal data online, unauthorized data usage has become a serious concern. The unlearnable strategies have been introduced to prevent third parties from training on the data without permission. They add…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Jie Ren , Han Xu , Yuxuan Wan , Xingjun Ma , Lichao Sun , Jiliang Tang

With more event datasets being released online, safeguarding the event dataset against unauthorized usage has become a serious concern for data owners. Unlearnable Examples are proposed to prevent the unauthorized exploitation of image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ruofei Wang , Peiqi Duan , Boxin Shi , Renjie Wan

Unlearnable examples (UEs) aim to compromise model training by injecting imperceptible perturbations to clean samples. However, existing UE schemes exhibit limited robustness against advanced defenses due to their heuristic design or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xianlong Wang , Hangtao Zhang , Wenbo Pan , Ziqi Zhou , Changsong Jiang , Li Zeng , Xiaohua Jia

While the use of graph-structured data in various fields is becoming increasingly popular, it also raises concerns about the potential unauthorized exploitation of personal data for training commercial graph neural network (GNN) models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yixin Liu , Chenrui Fan , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

The widespread use of face recognition technology has given rise to privacy concerns, as many individuals are worried about the collection and utilization of their facial data. To address these concerns, researchers are actively exploring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Zhiling Zhang , Jie Zhang , Kui Zhang , Wenbo Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

The open source of large amounts of image data promotes the development of deep learning techniques. Along with this comes the privacy risk of these open-source image datasets being exploited by unauthorized third parties to train deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yixin Liu , Kaidi Xu , Xun Chen , Lichao Sun

The tremendous amount of accessible data in cyberspace face the risk of being unauthorized used for training deep learning models. To address this concern, methods are proposed to make data unlearnable for deep learning models by adding a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shaopeng Fu , Fengxiang He , Yang Liu , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Unlearnable examples (UEs) seek to maximize testing error by making subtle modifications to training examples that are correctly labeled. Defenses against these poisoning attacks can be categorized based on whether specific interventions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

The unauthorized use of personal data for commercial purposes and the clandestine acquisition of private data for training machine learning models continue to raise concerns. In response to these issues, researchers have proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Bin Fang , Bo Li , Shuang Wu , Ran Yi , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Unexploitable example generation aims to transform personal images into their unexploitable (unlearnable) versions before they are uploaded online, thereby preventing unauthorized exploitation of online personal images. Recently, this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haoxuan Qu , Qiuchi Xiang , Yujun Cai , Yirui Wu , Majid Mirmehdi , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Most existing unlearnable strategies focus on preventing unauthorized users from training single-task learning (STL) models with personal data. Nevertheless, the paradigm has recently shifted towards multi-task data and multi-task learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Siyuan Yang , Chenqi Kong , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Large Language Models are typically trained on datasets collected from the web, which may inadvertently contain harmful or sensitive personal information. To address growing privacy concerns, unlearning methods have been proposed to remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoyu Wu , Yifei Pang , Terrance Liu , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Availability attacks can prevent the unauthorized use of private data and commercial datasets by generating imperceptible noise and making unlearnable examples before release. Ideally, the obtained unlearnability prevents algorithms from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yihan Wang , Yifan Zhu , Xiao-Shan Gao

We investigate the notion of untelegraphable encryption (UTE), a quantum encryption primitive that is a special case of uncloneable encryption (UE), where the adversary's capabilities are restricted to producing purely classical information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Anne Broadbent , Eric Culf , Denis Rochette

Unlearnable example attacks are data poisoning attacks aiming to degrade the clean test accuracy of deep learning by adding imperceptible perturbations to the training samples, which can be formulated as a bi-level optimization problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Shuang Liu , Yihan Wang , Xiao-Shan Gao

Multimodal contrastive learning (MCL) has shown remarkable advances in zero-shot classification by learning from millions of image-caption pairs crawled from the Internet. However, this reliance poses privacy risks, as hackers may…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xinwei Liu , Xiaojun Jia , Yuan Xun , Siyuan Liang , Xiaochun Cao

When introducing Large Language Models (LLMs) into industrial applications, such as healthcare and education, the risk of generating harmful content becomes a significant challenge. While existing machine unlearning methods can erase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Mutsumi Sasaki , Kouta Nakayama , Yusuke Miyao , Yohei Oseki , Masaru Isonuma

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable performance with a small fraction of labeled data by leveraging vast amounts of unlabeled data from the Internet. However, this large pool of untrusted data is extremely vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Cheng-Yi Lee , Ching-Chia Kao , Cheng-Han Yeh , Chun-Shien Lu , Chia-Mu Yu , Chu-Song Chen

In this study, we propose a new methodology to control how user's data is recognized and used by AI via exploiting the properties of adversarial examples. For this purpose, we propose reversible adversarial example (RAE), a new type of…

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