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Model stealing attack is increasingly threatening the confidentiality of machine learning models deployed in the cloud. Recent studies reveal that adversaries can exploit data synthesis techniques to steal machine learning models even in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yunfei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Yuexin Xuan , Zhendong Zhao

Performing machine learning tasks in mobile applications yields a challenging conflict of interest: highly sensitive client information (e.g., speech data) should remain private while also the intellectual property of service providers…

With the proliferation of edge devices, there is a significant increase in attack surface on these devices. The decentralized deployment of threat intelligence on edge devices, coupled with adaptive machine learning techniques such as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Syed Mhamudul Hasan , Alaa M. Alotaibi , Sajedul Talukder , Abdur R. Shahid

Obfuscation is a technique for protecting hardware intellectual property (IP) blocks against reverse engineering, piracy, and malicious modifications. Current obfuscation efforts mainly focus on functional locking of a design to prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Prabuddha Chakraborty , Jonathan Cruz , Swarup Bhunia

Safeguarding the intellectual property of machine learning models has emerged as a pressing concern in AI security. Model watermarking is a powerful technique for protecting ownership of machine learning models, yet its reliability has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Aoting Hu , Yanzhi Chen , Renjie Xie , Adrian Weller

Internet of things (IoT) devices are prone to attacks due to the limitation of their privacy and security components. These attacks vary from exploiting backdoors to disrupting the communication network of the devices. Intrusion Detection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Noor Ali Al-Athba Al-Marri , Bekir Sait Ciftler , Mohamed Abdallah

Android applications are usually obfuscated before release, making it difficult to analyze them for malware presence or intellectual property violations. Obfuscators might hide the true intent of code by renaming variables and/or modifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Fang-Hsiang Su , Jonathan Bell , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Recommender systems have been widely deployed in various real-world applications to help users identify content of interest from massive amounts of information. Traditional recommender systems work by collecting user-item interaction data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hongzhi Yin , Liang Qu , Tong Chen , Wei Yuan , Ruiqi Zheng , Jing Long , Xin Xia , Yuhui Shi , Chengqi Zhang

Backdoor attacks are among the most effective, practical, and stealthy attacks in deep learning. In this paper, we consider a practical scenario where a developer obtains a deep model from a third party and uses it as part of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Dorde Popovic , Amin Sadeghi , Ting Yu , Sanjay Chawla , Issa Khalil

Though vertical federated learning (VFL) is generally considered to be privacy-preserving, recent studies have shown that VFL system is vulnerable to label inference attacks originating from various attack surfaces. Among these attacks, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juntao Tan , Lan Zhang , Zhonghao Hu , Kai Yang , Peng Ran , Bo Li

Deep-learning-based intelligent services have become prevalent in cyber-physical applications including smart cities and health-care. Deploying deep-learning-based intelligence near the end-user enhances privacy protection, responsiveness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Sina Shahhosseini , Dongjoo Seo , Anil Kanduri , Tianyi Hu , Sung-soo Lim , Bryan Donyanavard , Amir M. Rahmani , Nikil Dutt

Deep learning models have been deployed in an increasing number of edge and mobile devices to provide healthcare. These models rely on training with a tremendous amount of labeled data to achieve high accuracy. However, for medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Zhepeng Wang , Yi Sheng , Lei Yang , Alaina J. James , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

The rise of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has led to the widespread deployment of machine learning models trained on diverse datasets. These models are employed for predictive services through APIs, raising concerns about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Mahendra Gurve , Sankar Behera , Satyadev Ahlawat , Yamuna Prasad

Deep neural networks (DNNs) deployed in a cloud often allow users to query models via the APIs. However, these APIs expose the models to model extraction attacks (MEAs). In this attack, the attacker attempts to duplicate the target model by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Satoru Koda , Ikuya Morikawa

On-device training has become an increasingly popular approach to machine learning, enabling models to be trained directly on mobile and edge devices. However, a major challenge in this area is the limited memory available on these devices,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Shitian Li , Chunlin Tian , Kahou Tam , Rui Ma , Li Li

Due to their on-body and ubiquitous nature, wearables can generate a wide range of unique sensor data creating countless opportunities for deep learning tasks. We propose DeepWear, a deep learning (DL) framework for wearable devices to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Mengwei Xu , Feng Qian , Mengze Zhu , Feifan Huang , Saumay Pushp , Xuanzhe Liu

As the deployment of deep learning models continues to expand across industries, the threat of malicious incursions aimed at gaining access to these deployed models is on the rise. Should an attacker gain access to a deployed model, whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Wenxin Ding , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

Splitting network computations between the edge device and a server enables low edge-compute inference of neural networks but might expose sensitive information about the test query to the server. To address this problem, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Mohammad Samragh , Hossein Hosseini , Aleksei Triastcyn , Kambiz Azarian , Joseph Soriaga , Farinaz Koushanfar

Recent advancements in diffusion models have enabled high-fidelity and photorealistic image generation across diverse applications. However, these models also present security and privacy risks, including copyright violations, sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiacheng Shi , Yanfu Zhang , Huajie Shao , Ashley Gao

Black-box finetuning is an emerging interface for adapting state-of-the-art language models to user needs. However, such access may also let malicious actors undermine model safety. To demonstrate the challenge of defending finetuning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Danny Halawi , Alexander Wei , Eric Wallace , Tony T. Wang , Nika Haghtalab , Jacob Steinhardt