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The use of audio recordings of human speech to train LLMs poses privacy concerns due to these models' potential to generate outputs that closely resemble artifacts in the training data. In this study, we propose a speaker privacy-preserving…

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Automatic speech recognition systems have created exciting possibilities for applications, however they also enable opportunities for systematic eavesdropping. We propose a method to camouflage a person's voice over-the-air from these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Mia Chiquier , Chengzhi Mao , Carl Vondrick

We address nonconvex learning problems over undirected networks. In particular, we focus on the challenge of designing an algorithm that is both communication-efficient and that guarantees the privacy of the agents' data. The first goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaoxing Ren , Yuwen Ma , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

This paper addresses the dual challenge of improving anomaly detection and signal integrity in high-speed dynamic random access memory signals. To achieve this, we propose a joint training framework that integrates an autoencoder with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Muhammad Usama , Hee-Deok Jang , Soham Shanbhag , Yoo-Chang Sung , Seung-Jun Bae , Dong Eui Chang

The arms race between attacks and defenses for machine learning models has come to a forefront in recent years, in both the security community and the privacy community. However, one big limitation of previous research is that the security…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-27 Liwei Song , Reza Shokri , Prateek Mittal

Factorizing speech as disentangled speech representations is vital to achieve highly controllable style transfer in voice conversion (VC). Conventional speech representation learning methods in VC only factorize speech as speaker and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Jie Wang , Jingbei Li , Xintao Zhao , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

Federated learning enables training a global machine learning model from data distributed across multiple sites, without having to move the data. This is particularly relevant in healthcare applications, where data is rife with personal,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Olivia Choudhury , Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis , Theodoros Salonidis , Issa Sylla , Yoonyoung Park , Grace Hsu , Amar Das

During the Covid, online meetings have become an indispensable part of our lives. This trend is likely to continue due to their convenience and broad reach. However, background noise from other family members, roommates, office-mates not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Wei Sun , Mei Wang , Lili Qiu

We propose an ensemble learning framework with Poisson sub-sampling to effectively train a collection of teacher models to issue some differential privacy (DP) guarantee for training data. Through boosting under DP, a student model derived…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Chin-Hui Lee

Malicious adversaries can attack machine learning models to infer sensitive information or damage the system by launching a series of evasion attacks. Although various work addresses privacy and security concerns, they focus on individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Janvi Thakkar , Giulio Zizzo , Sergio Maffeis

Recently, studies show that deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs), which add a small amount of noise to the original audio examples. These AE attacks pose new challenges…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Feng Guo , Zheng Sun , Yuxuan Chen , Lei Ju

Over the last decade, the use of Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems has become increasingly widespread in response to the growing need for secure and efficient identity verification methods. The voice data encompasses a wealth of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Oubaïda Chouchane , Michele Panariello , Oualid Zari , Ismet Kerenciler , Imen Chihaoui , Massimiliano Todisco , Melek Önen

There has been a recent surge in adversarial attacks on deep learning based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. These attacks pose new challenges to deep learning security and have raised significant concerns in deploying ASR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Farinaz Koushanfar

With the development of smart devices, such as the Amazon Echo and Apple's HomePod, speech data have become a new dimension of big data. However, privacy and security concerns may hinder the collection and sharing of real-world speech data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yaowei Han , Sheng Li , Yang Cao , Qiang Ma , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Speech signals are inherently complex as they encompass both global acoustic characteristics and local semantic information. However, in the task of target speech extraction, certain elements of global and local semantic information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Sining Sun , Qing Yang

In recent years, significant progress has been made in deep model-based automatic speech recognition (ASR), leading to its widespread deployment in the real world. At the same time, adversarial attacks against deep ASR systems are highly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Christian Heider Nielsen , Zheng-Hua Tan

In recent years, machine learning - particularly deep learning - has significantly impacted the field of information management. While several strategies have been proposed to restrict models from learning and memorizing sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jiajia Li , Lu Yang , Letian Peng , Shitou Zhang , Ping Wang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Crowdsourced data used in machine learning services might carry sensitive information about attributes that users do not want to share. Various methods have been proposed to minimize the potential information leakage of sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Han Zhao , Jianfeng Chi , Yuan Tian , Geoffrey J. Gordon

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) systems pose significant privacy risks by tracking users without their consent. While adversarial attacks can protect privacy, they often produce visible artifacts compromising user experience. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar