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The remarkable success of machine learning, especially deep learning, has produced a variety of cloud-based services for mobile users. Such services require an end user to send data to the service provider, which presents a serious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Sicong Liu , Anshumali Shrivastava , Junzhao Du , Lin Zhong

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to both backdoor and adversarial attacks. In the literature, these two types of attacks are commonly treated as distinct robustness problems and solved separately, since they belong to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhenxing Niu , Yuyao Sun , Qiguang Miao , Rong Jin , Gang Hua

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

Federated Learning (FL) was initially proposed as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to a series of privacy attacks. Recently, there has been concern about the Source Inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Andreas Athanasiou , Kangsoo Jung , Catuscia Palamidessi

The foreseen growing role of outsourced machine learning services is raising concerns about the privacy of user data. Several technical solutions are being proposed to address the issue. Hardware security modules in cloud data centres…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Marc Joye , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

Randomized smoothing is a powerful tool for certifying robustness to adversarial perturbations, including poisoning attacks via randomized training and evasion attacks via randomized inference. Extending these guarantees to backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Aman Saxena , Jan Schuchardt , Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann

The vast storage capacity and computational power of cloud servers have led to the widespread outsourcing of machine learning inference services. While offering significant operational benefits, this practice also introduces privacy risks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shuai Yuan , Hongwei Li , Xinyuan Qian , Guowen Xu

Camera sensors are increasingly being combined with machine learning to perform various tasks such as intelligent surveillance. Due to its computational complexity, most of these machine learning algorithms are offloaded to the cloud for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Sander De Coninck , Wei-Cheng Wang , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Deep learning models often raise privacy concerns as they leak information about their training data. This enables an adversary to determine whether a data point was in a model's training set by conducting a membership inference attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yigitcan Kaya , Sanghyun Hong , Tudor Dumitras

Machine learning models often pose a threat to the privacy of individuals whose data is part of the training set. Several recent attacks have been able to infer sensitive information from trained models, including model inversion or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Abigail Goldsteen , Gilad Ezov , Ariel Farkash

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against machine learning (ML) models aim to determine whether a given data point was part of the model training data. These attacks may pose significant privacy risks to individuals whose sensitive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mona Khalil , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Najeeb Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

The high cost of model training makes it increasingly desirable to develop techniques for unlearning. These techniques seek to remove the influence of a training example without having to retrain the model from scratch. Intuitively, once a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jamie Hayes , Ilia Shumailov , Eleni Triantafillou , Amr Khalifa , Nicolas Papernot

Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu

Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent studies indicate that private training data can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum

The training phase of deep neural networks requires substantial resources and as such is often performed on cloud servers. However, this raises privacy concerns when the training dataset contains sensitive content, e.g., facial or medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yamin Sepehri , Pedram Pad , Pascal Frossard , L. Andrea Dunbar

As Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference becomes increasingly prevalent on edge and mobile platforms, critical challenges emerge in privacy protection, resource constraints, and dynamic model deployment. This paper proposes a privacy-aware…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hong Wang , Xuwei Fan , Zhipeng Cheng , Yachao Yuan , Minghui Min , Minghui Liwang , Xiaoyu Xia

Federated Learning (FL) trains a black-box and high-dimensional model among different clients by exchanging parameters instead of direct data sharing, which mitigates the privacy leak incurred by machine learning. However, FL still suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qi Tan , Qi Li , Yi Zhao , Zhuotao Liu , Xiaobing Guo , Ke Xu

In collaborative inference (CI), transmitting intermediate representations $Z$ from edge devices enables model inversion attacks (MIA) that reconstruct the original inputs $X$, while existing defenses mainly perturb shallow-layer $Z$ at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Rongke Liu , Youwen Zhu , Lei Zhou , Xianglong Zhang , Dong Wang

Privacy-preserving inference in edge computing paradigms encourages the users of machine-learning services to locally run a model on their private input and only share the models outputs for a target task with the server. We study how a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Deniz Gunduz

Transfer learning, successful in knowledge translation across related tasks, faces a substantial privacy threat from membership inference attacks (MIAs). These attacks, despite posing significant risk to ML model's training data, remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Cong Wu , Jing Chen , Qianru Fang , Kun He , Ziming Zhao , Hao Ren , Guowen Xu , Yang Liu , Yang Xiang