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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xiaodan Li , Jinfeng Li , Yuefeng Chen , Shaokai Ye , Yuan He , Shuhui Wang , Hang Su , Hui Xue

Phrase search allows retrieval of documents containing an exact phrase, which plays an important role in many machine learning applications for cloud-based IoT, such as intelligent medical data analytics. In order to protect sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Meng Shen , Baoli Ma , Liehuang Zhu , Xiaojiang Du , Ke Xu

Accurately retrieving relevant bid keywords for user queries is critical in Sponsored Search but remains challenging, particularly for short, ambiguous queries. Existing dense and generative retrieval models often fail to capture nuanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Gururaj K , Gagan Madan , Amit Singh

A server, which is to keep track of heavy document traffic, is unable to filter the documents that are most relevant and updated for continuous text search queries. This paper focuses on handling continuous text extraction sustaining high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Srivatsan Sridharan , Kausal Malladi , Yamini Muralitharan

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

Efficient password cracking is a critical aspect of digital forensics, enabling investigators to decrypt protected content during criminal investigations. Traditional password cracking methods, including brute-force, dictionary and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Mohamad Hachem , Adam Lanfranchi , Nathan Clarke , Joakim Kavrestad

Outsourcing data storage to the remote cloud can be an economical solution to enhance data management in the smart grid ecosystem. To protect the privacy of data, the utility company may choose to encrypt the data before uploading them to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jiangnan Li , Xiangyu Niu , Jinyuan Stella Sun

Enterprise search systems often struggle to retrieve accurate, domain-specific information due to semantic mismatches and overlapping terminologies. These issues can degrade the performance of downstream applications such as knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hansa Meghwani , Amit Agarwal , Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Srikant Panda

Due to increasing concerns of data privacy, databases are being encrypted before they are stored on an untrusted server. To enable search operations on the encrypted data, searchable encryption techniques have been proposed. Representative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Yanjun Pan , Alon Efrat , Ming Li , Boyang Wang , Hanyu Quan , Joseph Mitchell , Jie Gao , Esther Arkin

Cloud computing environments are increasingly vulnerable to security threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and SQL injection. Traditional security mechanisms, based on rule matching and feature recognition, struggle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuqing Wang , Xiao Yang

Encrypted deduplication combines encryption and deduplication to simultaneously achieve both data security and storage efficiency. State-of-the-art encrypted deduplication systems mainly build on deterministic encryption to preserve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Jingwei Li , Patrick P. C. Lee , Chufeng Tan , Chuan Qin , Xiaosong Zhang

This article investigates the security issue caused by false data injection attacks in distributed estimation, wherein each sensor can construct two types of residues based on local estimates and neighbor information, respectively. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Jiahao Huang , Marios M. Polycarpou , Wen Yang , Fangfei Li , Yang Tang

Cloud computing is emerging as a revolutionary computing paradigm, while security and privacy become major concerns in the cloud scenario. For which Searchable Encryption (SE) technology is proposed to support efficient retrieval of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Ruihui Zhao , Yuanliang Sun , Mizuho Iwaihara

Reusing off-the-shelf code snippets from online repositories is a common practice, which significantly enhances the productivity of software developers. To find desired code snippets, developers resort to code search engines through natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Weisong Sun , Yuchen Chen , Guanhong Tao , Chunrong Fang , Xiangyu Zhang , Quanjun Zhang , Bin Luo

Searchable encryption (SE) is a positive way to protect users sensitive data in cloud computing setting, while preserving search ability on the server side, i.e., it allows the server to search encrypted data without leaking information…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Wenjie Liu , Yinsong Xu , Wen Liu , Haibin Wang , Zhibin Lei

NoSQL systems are more and more deployed as back-end infrastructure for large-scale distributed online platforms like Google, Amazon or Facebook. Their applicability results from the fact that most services of online platforms access the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christian von der Weth , Anwitaman Datta

Code search is to search reusable code snippets from source code corpus based on natural languages queries. Deep learning-based methods of code search have shown promising results. However, previous methods focus on retrieval accuracy but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wenchao Gu , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Unlike the white-box counterparts that are widely studied and readily accessible, adversarial examples in black-box settings are generally more Herculean on account of the difficulty of estimating gradients. Many methods achieve the task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

This paper concerns corpus poisoning attacks in dense information retrieval, where an adversary attempts to compromise the ranking performance of a search algorithm by injecting a small number of maliciously generated documents into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yongkang Li , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Simon Lupart , Evangelos Kanoulas

Search engines rely heavily on term-based approaches that represent queries and documents as bags of words. Text---a document or a query---is represented by a bag of its words that ignores grammar and word order, but retains word frequency…

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