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Obtaining a well-trained model involves expensive data collection and training procedures, therefore the model is a valuable intellectual property. Recent studies revealed that adversaries can `steal' deployed models even when they have no…

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Model inversion (MI) attacks are aimed at reconstructing training data from model parameters. Such attacks have triggered increasing concerns about privacy, especially given a growing number of online model repositories. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Si Chen , Mostafa Kahla , Ruoxi Jia , Guo-Jun Qi

Model extraction attacks are one type of inference-time attacks that approximate the functionality and performance of a black-box victim model by launching a certain number of queries to the model and then leveraging the model's predictions…

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Machine learning is gaining popularity in the network security domain as many more network-enabled devices get connected, as malicious activities become stealthier, and as new technologies like Software Defined Networking emerge.…

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When large language models are trained on private data, it can be a significant privacy risk for them to memorize and regurgitate sensitive information. In this work, we propose a new practical data extraction attack that we call "neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ashwinee Panda , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Zhengming Zhang , Yaoqing Yang , Prateek Mittal

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…

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Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to update Machine Learning (ML) models following requests to remove training samples and their influences on a trained model efficiently without retraining the original ML model from scratch. While MU itself has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Liou Tang , James Joshi , Ashish Kundu

Despite the broad application of Machine Learning models as a Service (MLaaS), they are vulnerable to model stealing attacks. These attacks can replicate the model functionality by using the black-box query process without any prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jun Guo , Aishan Liu , Xingyu Zheng , Siyuan Liang , Yisong Xiao , Yichao Wu , Xianglong Liu

Adversarial training was introduced as a way to improve the robustness of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. This training method improves robustness against adversarial attacks, but increases the models vulnerability to privacy…

As machine learning (ML) becomes more and more powerful and easily accessible, attackers increasingly leverage ML to perform automated large-scale inference attacks in various domains. In such an ML-equipped inference attack, an attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Deep neural networks are normally executed in the forward direction. However, in this work, we identify a vulnerability that enables models to be trained in both directions and on different tasks. Adversaries can exploit this capability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Guy Amit , Mosh Levy , Yisroel Mirsky

Data-free model stealing involves replicating the functionality of a target model into a substitute model without accessing the target model's structure, parameters, or training data. The adversary can only access the target model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Gaozheng Pei , Shaojie lyu , Ke Ma , Pinci Yang , Qianqian Xu , Yingfei Sun

The vast advances in Machine Learning over the last ten years have been powered by the availability of suitably prepared data for training purposes. The future of ML-enabled enterprise hinges on data. As such, there is already a vibrant…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yifan Li , Xiaohui Yu , Nick Koudas

Increasing use of ML technologies in privacy-sensitive domains such as medical diagnoses, lifestyle predictions, and business decisions highlights the need to better understand if these ML technologies are introducing leakages of sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shagufta Mehnaz , Ninghui Li , Elisa Bertino

Machine Learning (ML) models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial inputs and researchers have demonstrated that even production systems, such as self-driving cars and ML-as-a-service offerings, are susceptible. These systems represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Marissa Dotter , Sherry Xie , Keith Manville , Josh Harguess , Colin Busho , Mikel Rodriguez

The recent success of machine learning (ML) has been fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large amounts of data in many different applications. However, the trustworthiness of the resulting models can be compromised…

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Large Language Models are typically trained on datasets collected from the web, which may inadvertently contain harmful or sensitive personal information. To address growing privacy concerns, unlearning methods have been proposed to remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoyu Wu , Yifei Pang , Terrance Liu , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Embedding models that generate dense vector representations of text are widely used and hold significant commercial value. Companies such as OpenAI and Cohere offer proprietary embedding models via paid APIs, but despite being "hidden"…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Manveer Singh Tamber , Jasper Xian , Jimmy Lin

While advanced machine learning (ML) models are deployed in numerous real-world applications, previous works demonstrate these models have security and privacy vulnerabilities. Various empirical research has been done in this field.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Boyang Zhang , Zheng Li , Ziqing Yang , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Mario Fritz , Yang Zhang

Despite the recent advances in a wide spectrum of applications, machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Attackers add carefully-crafted perturbations to input, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Ninghao Liu , Mengnan Du , Ruocheng Guo , Huan Liu , Xia Hu