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The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have primarily focused on the process of learning from data to acquire knowledgeable learning systems. As these systems are increasingly deployed in critical areas, ensuring their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wei Qian , Chenxu Zhao , Yangyi Li , Mengdi Huai

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in developing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) capable of processing both textual and visual inputs. These models have demonstrated impressive performance, leading to their widespread adoption in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Hanene F. Z. Brachemi Meftah , Wassim Hamidouche , Sid Ahmed Fezza , Olivier Déforges

Federated learning has seen increased adoption in recent years in response to the growing regulatory demand for data privacy. However, the opaque local training process of federated learning also sparks rising concerns about model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yuxi Mi , Yiheng Sun , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) rely on a variety of devices that frequently process privacy-sensitive data. Roadside units are important because they use AI-equipped cameras to detect traffic violations in Connected and Autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Abdolazim Rezaei , Mehdi Sookhak , Ahmad Patooghy , Shahab S. Band , Amir Mosavi

Nowadays, machine learning models and applications have become increasingly pervasive. With this rapid increase in the development and employment of machine learning models, a concern regarding privacy has risen. Thus, there is a legitimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Samah Baraheem , Zhongmei Yao

Deep learning (DL)-based solutions have been extensively researched in the medical domain in recent years, enhancing the efficacy of diagnosis, planning, and treatment. Since the usage of health-related data is strictly regulated,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Andreea Bianca Popescu , Cosmin Ioan Nita , Ioana Antonia Taca , Anamaria Vizitiu , Lucian Mihai Itu

Machine learning models are vulnerable to data inference attacks, such as membership inference and model inversion attacks. In these types of breaches, an adversary attempts to infer a data record's membership in a dataset or even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Dayong Ye , Sheng Shen , Tianqing Zhu , Bo Liu , Wanlei Zhou

Sharing images online poses security threats to a wide range of users due to the unawareness of privacy information. Deep features have been demonstrated to be a powerful representation for images. However, deep features usually suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Chiranjibi Sitaula , Yong Xiang , Sunil Aryal , Xuequan Lu

Thanks to the explosive growth of data and the development of computational resources, it is possible to build pre-trained models that can achieve outstanding performance on various tasks, such as neural language processing, computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Meng Yang , Tianqing Zhu , Chi Liu , WanLei Zhou , Shui Yu , Philip S. Yu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide excellent performance across a wide range of classification tasks, but their training requires high computational resources and is often outsourced to third parties. Recent work has shown that outsourced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Kang Liu , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Siddharth Garg

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, such as backdoor attacks in which a malicious adversary compromises a model during training such that specific behaviour can be triggered at test time by attaching a specific word…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 You Guo , Jun Wang , Trevor Cohn

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, self-supervised learning (SSL) was shown to be vulnerable to patch-based data poisoning backdoor attacks. It was shown that an adversary can poison a small part of the unlabeled data so that when a victim trains an SSL model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ajinkya Tejankar , Maziar Sanjabi , Qifan Wang , Sinong Wang , Hamed Firooz , Hamed Pirsiavash , Liang Tan

Backdoor attacks insert malicious data into a training set so that, during inference time, it misclassifies inputs that have been patched with a backdoor trigger as the malware specified label. For backdoor attacks to bypass human…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Yi Zeng , Minzhou Pan , Hoang Anh Just , Lingjuan Lyu , Meikang Qiu , Ruoxi Jia

Machine learning models are vulnerable to both security attacks (e.g., adversarial examples) and privacy attacks (e.g., private attribute inference). We take the first step to mitigate both the security and privacy attacks, and maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Binghui Zhang , Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Yun Dong , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Machine learning tools are becoming increasingly powerful and widely used. Unfortunately membership attacks, which seek to uncover information from data sets used in machine learning, have the potential to limit data sharing. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Dennis Conway , Loic Simon , Alexis Lechervy , Frederic Jurie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attack, which does not affect the network's performance on clean data but would manipulate the network behavior once a trigger pattern is added. Existing defense methods have greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Min Liu , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Xiangyu Yue

We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy concerns in machine learning models, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Rachel Hong , Jevan Hutson , William Agnew , Imaad Huda , Tadayoshi Kohno , Jamie Morgenstern

Privacy of machine learning models is one of the remaining challenges that hinder the broad adoption of Artificial Intelligent (AI). This paper considers this problem in the context of image datasets containing faces. Anonymization of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minh-Ha Le , Niklas Carlsson

Historically, machine learning methods have not been designed with security in mind. In turn, this has given rise to adversarial examples, carefully perturbed input samples aimed to mislead detection at test time, which have been applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jamie Hayes