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As machine learning algorithms have been widely deployed across applications, many concerns have been raised over the fairness of their predictions, especially in high stakes settings (such as facial recognition and medical imaging). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Valeriia Cherepanova , Vedant Nanda , Micah Goldblum , John P. Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

With the emergence of data silos and popular privacy awareness, the traditional centralized approach of training artificial intelligence (AI) models is facing strong challenges. Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Lingjuan Lyu , Han Yu , Qiang Yang

With the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning in modern computing, one of the major concerns regarding such techniques is to provide privacy and security against adversaries. We present this survey paper to cover the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Wenjun Qiu

Machine learning has become an important component for many systems and applications including computer vision, spam filtering, malware and network intrusion detection, among others. Despite the capabilities of machine learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Andrea Paudice , Luis Muñoz-González , Andras Gyorgy , Emil C. Lupu

Federated learning is a distributed framework designed to address privacy concerns. However, it introduces new attack surfaces, which are especially prone when data is non-Independently and Identically Distributed. Existing approaches fail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hyejun Jeong , Hamin Son , Seohu Lee , Jayun Hyun , Tai-Myoung Chung

There has been recent interest in leveraging federated learning (FL) for radio signal classification tasks. In FL, model parameters are periodically communicated from participating devices, training on their own local datasets, to a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Su Wang , Rajeev Sahay , Christopher G. Brinton

Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time. In this work, we show that these training-time vulnerabilities extend to deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Panagiota Kiourti , Kacper Wardega , Susmit Jha , Wenchao Li

Much of the previous machine learning (ML) fairness literature assumes that protected features such as race and sex are present in the dataset, and relies upon them to mitigate fairness concerns. However, in practice factors like privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Preethi Lahoti , Alex Beutel , Jilin Chen , Kang Lee , Flavien Prost , Nithum Thain , Xuezhi Wang , Ed H. Chi

Research in adversarial machine learning (AML) has shown that statistical models are vulnerable to maliciously altered data. However, despite advances in Bayesian machine learning models, most AML research remains concentrated on classical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Matthieu Carreau , Roi Naveiro , William N. Caballero

Federated online learning to rank (FOLTR) aims to preserve user privacy by not sharing their searchable data and search interactions, while guaranteeing high search effectiveness, especially in contexts where individual users have scarce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shuyi Wang , Guido Zuccon

Network representation learning (NRL) is an effective graph analytics technique and promotes users to deeply understand the hidden characteristics of graph data. It has been successfully applied in many real-world tasks related to network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ke Sun , Lei Wang , Bo Xu , Wenhong Zhao , Shyh Wei Teng , Feng Xia

Answering complex logical queries over large-scale knowledge graphs (KGs) represents an important artificial intelligence task, entailing a range of applications. Recently, knowledge representation learning (KRL) has emerged as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhaohan Xi , Ren Pang , Changjiang Li , Shouling Ji , Xiapu Luo , Xusheng Xiao , Ting Wang

In this paper, we consider a theoretical model for injecting data bias, namely, under-representation and label bias (Blum & Stangl, 2019). We empirically study the effect of varying data biases on the accuracy and fairness of fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mohit Sharma , Amit Deshpande , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Advances in distributed machine learning can empower future communications and networking. The emergence of federated learning (FL) has provided an efficient framework for distributed machine learning, which, however, still faces many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhilin Wang , Qiao Kang , Xinyi Zhang , Qin Hu

Federated Learning is an important emerging distributed training paradigm that keeps data private on clients. It is now well understood that by controlling only a small subset of FL clients, it is possible to introduce a backdoor to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Joseph Rance , Filip Svoboda

Backdoor attacks poison the training data, causing the model to behave normally on clean inputs but predict attacker-chosen labels when trigger patterns are embedded into the input samples. Defending against such attacks is highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wei Guo , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio

Data poisoning causes misclassification of test time target examples by injecting maliciously crafted samples in the training data. Existing defenses are often effective only against a specific type of targeted attack, significantly degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yu Yang , Tian Yu Liu , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

A backdoor or Trojan attack is an important type of data poisoning attack against deep neural network (DNN) classifiers, wherein the training dataset is poisoned with a small number of samples that each possess the backdoor pattern (usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 H. Wang , S. Karami , O. Dia , H. Ritter , E. Emamjomeh-Zadeh , J. Chen , Z. Xiang , D. J. Miller , G. Kesidis

Fairness in machine learning has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The fairness methods improving algorithmic fairness for in-distribution data may not perform well under distribution shifts. In this paper, we first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhimeng Jiang , Xiaotian Han , Hongye Jin , Guanchu Wang , Rui Chen , Na Zou , Xia Hu

A topic of great current interest is Causal Representation Learning (CRL), whose goal is to learn a causal model for hidden features in a data-driven manner. Unfortunately, CRL is severely ill-posed since it is a combination of the two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-10 Hiroshi Morioka , Aapo Hyvärinen