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Security, privacy, and fairness have become critical in the era of data science and machine learning. More and more we see that achieving universally secure, private, and fair systems is practically impossible. We have seen for example how…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-24 Jure Sokolic , Qiang Qiu , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Guillermo Sapiro

As machine learning algorithms have been widely deployed across applications, many concerns have been raised over the fairness of their predictions, especially in high stakes settings (such as facial recognition and medical imaging). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Valeriia Cherepanova , Vedant Nanda , Micah Goldblum , John P. Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

Reliable neural networks (NNs) provide important inference-time reliability guarantees such as fairness and robustness. Complementarily, privacy-preserving NN inference protects the privacy of client data. So far these two emerging areas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Nikola Jovanović , Marc Fischer , Samuel Steffen , Martin Vechev

The problem we address is the following: how can a user employ a predictive model that is held by a third party, without compromising private information. For example, a hospital may wish to use a cloud service to predict the readmission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Pengtao Xie , Misha Bilenko , Tom Finley , Ran Gilad-Bachrach , Kristin Lauter , Michael Naehrig

Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-06 Niki Kilbertus , Adrià Gascón , Matt J. Kusner , Michael Veale , Krishna P. Gummadi , Adrian Weller

Training contemporary AI models requires investment in procuring learning data and computing resources, making the models intellectual property of the owners. Popular model watermarking solutions rely on key input triggers for detection;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Nojan Sheybani , Zahra Ghodsi , Ritvik Kapila , Farinaz Koushanfar

Privacy concerns have led to the development of privacy-preserving approaches for learning models from sensitive data. Yet, in practice, even models learned with privacy guarantees can inadvertently memorize unique training examples or leak…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Mario Diaz , Peter Kairouz , Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training on decentralized data without exposing raw data. However, the evaluation phase in FL may leak sensitive information through shared performance metrics. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Daniel Commey , Benjamin Appiah , Griffith S. Klogo , Garth V. Crosby

Fairness of machine learning (ML) software has become a major concern in the recent past. Although recent research on testing and improving fairness have demonstrated impact on real-world software, providing fairness guarantee in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Sumon Biswas , Hridesh Rajan

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are a cryptographic primitive that allows a prover to demonstrate knowledge of a secret value to a verifier without revealing anything about the secret itself. ZKPs have shown to be an extremely powerful tool,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nojan Sheybani , Anees Ahmed , Michel Kinsy , Farinaz Koushanfar

We consider the problem of whether a Neural Network (NN) model satisfies global individual fairness. Individual Fairness suggests that similar individuals with respect to a certain task are to be treated similarly by the decision model. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Haitham Khedr , Yasser Shoukry

The performance of machine learning algorithms can be considerably improved when trained over larger datasets. In many domains, such as medicine and finance, larger datasets can be obtained if several parties, each having access to limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Dana Pessach , Tamir Tassa , Erez Shmueli

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm in distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, despite its many advantages, FL still contends with significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Taotao Wang , Yuxin Jin , Qing Yang , Yihan Xia , Long Shi , Shengli Zhang

In principle, explanations are intended as a way to increase trust in machine learning models and are often obligated by regulations. However, many circumstances where these are demanded are adversarial in nature, meaning the involved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chhavi Yadav , Evan Monroe Laufer , Dan Boneh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

There is an increasing conflict between business incentives to hide models and data as trade secrets, and the societal need for algorithmic transparency. For example, a rightsholder wishing to know whether their copyrighted works have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Suppakit Waiwitlikhit , Ion Stoica , Yi Sun , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Daniel Kang

This paper proposes a new approach for privacy-preserving and verifiable convolutional neural network (CNN) testing, enabling a CNN model developer to convince a user of the truthful CNN performance over non-public data from multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiasi Weng , Jian Weng , Gui Tang , Anjia Yang , Ming Li , Jia-Nan Liu

Many companies use identity information for different goals. There are a lot of marketplaces for identity information. These markets have some practical issues such as privacy, mutual trust and fairing exchange. The management of identity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mohsen Rahnamaei , Saeid Tousi Saeidi , Siavash Khorsandi , Mehdi Shajari

As machine learning has been deployed ubiquitously across applications in modern data science, algorithmic fairness has become a great concern. Among them, imposing fairness constraints during learning, i.e. in-processing fair training, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yuzhen Mao , Zhun Deng , Huaxiu Yao , Ting Ye , Kenji Kawaguchi , James Zou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made rapid developments in the recent years. Due to their great ability in modeling graph-structured data, GNNs are vastly used in various applications, including high-stakes scenarios such as financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Enyan Dai , Tianxiang Zhao , Huaisheng Zhu , Junjie Xu , Zhimeng Guo , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang , Suhang Wang

Zero-knowledge proofs allow verification of computations without revealing private information. However, existing systems require memory proportional to the computation size, which has historically limited use in large-scale applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Logan Nye