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Selective data protection is a promising technique to defend against the data leakage attack. In this paper, we revisit technical challenges that were neglected when applying this protection to real applications. These challenges include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lin Ma , Jinyan Xu , Jiadong Sun , Yajin Zhou , Xun Xie , Wenbo Shen , Rui Chang , Kui Ren

There is great potential for damage from adversarial learning (AL) attacks on machine-learning based systems. In this paper, we provide a contemporary survey of AL, focused particularly on defenses against attacks on statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 David J. Miller , Zhen Xiang , George Kesidis

Recent model inversion attack algorithms permit adversaries to reconstruct a neural network's private and potentially sensitive training data by repeatedly querying the network. In this work, we develop a novel network architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Sayanton V. Dibbo , Adam Breuer , Juston Moore , Michael Teti

Adversarial attacks against neural networks in a regression setting are a critical yet understudied problem. In this work, we advance the state of the art by investigating adversarial attacks against regression networks and by formulating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff

We address a fundamental problem that is systematically encountered when modeling complex systems: the limitedness of the information available. In the case of economic and financial networks, privacy issues severely limit the information…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-07 Giulio Cimini , Tiziano Squartini , Diego Garlaschelli , Andrea Gabrielli

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models has raised significant privacy and security concerns, particularly regarding the generation of copyrighted or harmful images. In response, concept erasure (defense) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Alex D. Richardson , Kaicheng Zhang , Lucas Beerens , Dongdong Chen

Model Inversion (MI) attacks pose a significant threat to the privacy of Deep Neural Networks by recovering training data distribution from well-trained models. While existing defenses often rely on regularization techniques to reduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhen-Ting Liu , Shang-Tse Chen

Neural networks are valuable intellectual property due to the significant computational cost, expert labor, and proprietary data involved in their development. Consequently, protecting their parameters is critical not only for maintaining a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ashley Kurian , Aydin Aysu

A reconstruction attack on a private dataset $D$ takes as input some publicly accessible information about the dataset and produces a list of candidate elements of $D$. We introduce a new class of data reconstruction attacks based on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Travis Dick , Cynthia Dwork , Michael Kearns , Terrance Liu , Aaron Roth , Giuseppe Vietri , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known vulnerable to adversarial attacks. That is, adversarial examples, obtained by adding delicately crafted distortions onto original legal inputs, can mislead a DNN to classify them as any target labels.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Siyue Wang , Xiao Wang , Pu Zhao , Wujie Wen , David Kaeli , Peter Chin , Xue Lin

Despite the efficiency and scalability of machine learning systems, recent studies have demonstrated that many classification methods, especially deep neural networks (DNNs), are vulnerable to adversarial examples; i.e., examples that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yao Li , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Thomas C. M. Lee

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are susceptible to adversarial attacks and deception both during training and deployment. Automatic reverse engineering of the toolchains behind these adversarial machine learning attacks will aid in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Michael Goebel , Jason Bunk , Srinjoy Chattopadhyay , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

Among existing privacy attacks on the gradient of neural networks, \emph{data reconstruction attack}, which reverse engineers the training batch from the gradient, poses a severe threat on the private training data. Despite its empirical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xudong Pan , Mi Zhang , Yifan Yan , Jiaming Zhu , Min Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients without sharing raw data, ostensibly preserving data privacy. Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed critical vulnerabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Francesco Diana , André Nusser , Chuan Xu , Giovanni Neglia

The challenge of WAD (web attack detection) is growing as hackers continuously refine their methods to evade traditional detection. Deep learning models excel in handling complex unknown attacks due to their strong generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lijia Shi , Shihao Dong

This paper presents an approach for data-driven policy refinement in reinforcement learning, specifically designed for safety-critical applications. Our methodology leverages the strengths of data-driven optimization and reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ali Baheri

Data protection is the process of securing sensitive information from being corrupted, compromised, or lost. A hyperconnected network, on the other hand, is a computer networking trend in which communication occurs over a network. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Jannatul Ferdous , Rafiqul Islam , Maumita Bhattacharya , Md Zahidul Islam

Deep regression models are used in a wide variety of safety-critical applications, but are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Although many defenses have been proposed for classification models, they are ineffective as they do not consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Lingyu Du , Yupei Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Guohao Lan

Deep Learning algorithms have achieved the state-of-the-art performance for Image Classification and have been used even in security-critical applications, such as biometric recognition systems and self-driving cars. However, recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Gabriel Resende Machado , Eugênio Silva , Ronaldo Ribeiro Goldschmidt