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Privacy attacks on machine learning models aim to identify the data that is used to train such models. Such attacks, traditionally, are studied on static models that are trained once and are accessible by the adversary. Motivated to meet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Ji Gao , Sanjam Garg , Mohammad Mahmoody , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Architectural backdoors pose an under-examined but critical threat to deep neural networks, embedding malicious logic directly into a model's computational graph. Unlike traditional data poisoning or parameter manipulation, architectural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Victoria Childress , Josh Collyer , Jodie Knapp

Natural language processing (NLP) models have become increasingly popular in real-world applications, such as text classification. However, they are vulnerable to privacy attacks, including data reconstruction attacks that aim to extract…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Adel Elmahdy , Ahmed Salem

Deep learning has emerged as a strong and efficient framework that can be applied to a broad spectrum of complex learning problems which were difficult to solve using the traditional machine learning techniques in the past. In the last few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Anirban Chakraborty , Manaar Alam , Vishal Dey , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Deep Neural Networks are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks, where minor modifications on the input are able to mislead the models to give wrong results. Although defenses against adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Kaidi Jin , Tianwei Zhang , Chao Shen , Yufei Chen , Ming Fan , Chenhao Lin , Ting Liu

Federated learning reduces the risk of information leakage, but remains vulnerable to attacks. We investigate how several neural network design decisions can defend against gradients inversion attacks. We show that overlapping gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Shaltiel Eloul , Fran Silavong , Sanket Kamthe , Antonios Georgiadis , Sean J. Moran

This paper studies a strategic security problem in networked control systems under stealthy false data injection attacks. The security problem is modeled as a bilateral cognitive security game between a defender and an adversary, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Anh Tung Nguyen , Quanyan Zhu , André Teixeira

The vulnerabilities of deep learning models towards adversarial attacks have attracted increasing attention, especially when models are deployed in security-critical domains. Numerous defense methods, including reactive and proactive ones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ruoxi Chen , Haibo Jin , Haibin Zheng , Jinyin Chen , Zhenguang Liu

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

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

Model Inversion (MI) attacks aim to reconstruct private training data by abusing access to machine learning models. Contemporary MI attacks have achieved impressive attack performance, posing serious threats to privacy. Meanwhile, all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Sy-Tuyen Ho , Koh Jun Hao , Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

The cybersecurity threat landscape has lately become overly complex. Threat actors leverage weaknesses in the network and endpoint security in a very coordinated manner to perpetuate sophisticated attacks that could bring down the entire…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Mohit Sewak , Sanjay K. Sahay , Hemant Rathore

Model Inversion (MI) attacks pose a significant privacy threat by reconstructing private training data from machine learning models. While existing defenses primarily concentrate on model-centric approaches, the impact of data on MI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Viet-Hung Tran , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Son T. Mai , Hans Vandierendonck , Ira Assent , Alex Kot , Ngai-Man Cheung

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep learning models by implanting hidden vulnerabilities that can be activated by malicious inputs. While numerous defenses have been proposed to mitigate these attacks, the heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gorka Abad , Marina Krček , Stefanos Koffas , Behrad Tajalli , Marco Arazzi , Roberto Riaño , Xiaoyun Xu , Zhuoran Liu , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

Dataset bias is a problem in adversarial machine learning, especially in the evaluation of defenses. An adversarial attack or defense algorithm may show better results on the reported dataset than can be replicated on other datasets. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Camilo Pestana , Wei Liu , David Glance , Ajmal Mian

The fragility of deep neural networks to adversarially-chosen inputs has motivated the need to revisit deep learning algorithms. Including adversarial examples during training is a popular defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jacob H. Seidman , Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado , George J. Pappas

As machine learning systems grow in scale, so do their training data requirements, forcing practitioners to automate and outsource the curation of training data in order to achieve state-of-the-art performance. The absence of trustworthy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Micah Goldblum , Dimitris Tsipras , Chulin Xie , Xinyun Chen , Avi Schwarzschild , Dawn Song , Aleksander Madry , Bo Li , Tom Goldstein

As machine learning techniques become increasingly prevalent in data analysis, the threat of adversarial attacks has surged, necessitating robust defense mechanisms. Among these defenses, methods exploiting low-rank approximations for input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Manish Bhattarai , Mehmet Cagri Kaymak , Ryan Barron , Ben Nebgen , Kim Rasmussen , Boian Alexandrov

As we seek to deploy machine learning models beyond virtual and controlled domains, it is critical to analyze not only the accuracy or the fact that it works most of the time, but if such a model is truly robust and reliable. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Samuel Henrique Silva , Peyman Najafirad

Recent studies have shown that the training samples can be recovered from gradients, which are called Gradient Inversion (GradInv) attacks. However, there remains a lack of extensive surveys covering recent advances and thorough analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Rui Zhang , Song Guo , Junxiao Wang , Xin Xie , Dacheng Tao