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Machine learning (ML) is vulnerable to inference (e.g., membership inference, property inference, and data reconstruction) attacks that aim to infer the private information of training data or dataset. Existing defenses are only designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Binghui Zhang , Yuan Hong , Binghui 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

We describe a threat model under which a split network-based federated learning system is susceptible to a model inversion attack by a malicious computational server. We demonstrate that the attack can be successfully performed with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tom Titcombe , Adam J. Hall , Pavlos Papadopoulos , Daniele Romanini

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

In order to extract knowledge from the large data collected by edge devices, traditional cloud based approach that requires data upload may not be feasible due to communication bandwidth limitation as well as privacy and security concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Omobayode Fagbohungbe , Sheikh Rufsan Reza , Xishuang Dong , Lijun Qian

Adversarial examples, which are slightly perturbed inputs generated with the aim of fooling a neural network, are known to transfer between models; adversaries which are effective on one model will often fool another. This concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 George Adam , Romain Speciel

When neural network model and data are outsourced to cloud server for inference, it is desired to preserve the confidentiality of model and data as the involved parties (i.e., cloud server, model providing client and data providing client)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Pinglan Liu , Wensheng Zhang

Neural networks are susceptible to data inference attacks such as the membership inference attack, the adversarial model inversion attack and the attribute inference attack, where the attacker could infer useful information such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ziqi Yang , Lijin Wang , Da Yang , Jie Wan , Ziming Zhao , Ee-Chien Chang , Fan Zhang , Kui Ren

Background: Machine learning-based security detection models have become prevalent in modern malware and intrusion detection systems. However, previous studies show that such models are susceptible to adversarial evasion attacks. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Rui Shu , Tianpei Xia , Laurie Williams , Tim Menzies

Collaborative inference among multiple wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for sensing and computer vision. This approach typically involves a three-stage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Distributed machine learning systems require strong privacy guarantees, verifiable compliance, and scalable deployment across heterogeneous and multi-cloud environments. This work introduces a cloud-native privacy-preserving architecture…

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

Collaborative inference has recently emerged as an attractive framework for applying deep learning to Internet of Things (IoT) applications by splitting a DNN model into several subpart models among resource-constrained IoT devices and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jihyeon Ryu , Yifeng Zheng , Yansong Gao , Sharif Abuadbba , Junyaup Kim , Dongho Won , Surya Nepal , Hyoungshick Kim , Cong Wang

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Machine learning-based Deepfake detection models have achieved impressive results on benchmark datasets, yet their performance often deteriorates significantly when evaluated on out-of-distribution data. In this work, we investigate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Haroon Wahab , Hassan Ugail , Lujain Jaleel

Gradient inversion attacks pose significant privacy threats to distributed training frameworks such as federated learning, enabling malicious parties to reconstruct sensitive local training data from gradient communications between clients…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jiajun Gu , Yuhang Yao , Shuaiqi Wang , Carlee Joe-Wong

In this study, we investigate the protection offered by federated learning algorithms against eavesdropping adversaries. In our model, the adversary is capable of intercepting model updates transmitted from clients to the server, enabling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Dipankar Maity , Kushal Chakrabarti

Collaborative inference has been a promising solution to enable resource-constrained edge devices to perform inference using state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs). In collaborative inference, the edge device first feeds the input to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shiwei Ding , Lan Zhang , Miao Pan , Xiaoyong Yuan

Model Inversion (MI), in which an adversary abuses access to a trained Machine Learning (ML) model attempting to infer sensitive information about its original training data, has attracted increasing research attention. During MI, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Qian Wang , Daniel Kurz

There is a growing trend to outsource the inference task of large transformer models to cloud servers. However, this poses a severe threat to users' private data as they are exposed to cloud servers after uploading. Although several works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weize Wang , Yi Kuang