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Recent studies show that the state-of-the-art deep neural networks are vulnerable to model inversion attacks, in which access to a model is abused to reconstruct private training data of any given target class. Existing attacks rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Mostafa Kahla , Si Chen , Hoang Anh Just , Ruoxi Jia

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based image-generative models, the quality of generated images has become increasingly photorealistic. Moreover, with the release of high-quality pre-trained image-generative models, a growing number…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yan Pang , Tianhao Wang

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversarial examples for one model can fool another model. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Qian Huang , Zeqi Gu , Isay Katsman , Horace He , Pian Pawakapan , Zhiqiu Lin , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Existing transfer attack methods commonly assume that the attacker knows the training set (e.g., the label set, the input size) of the black-box victim models, which is usually unrealistic because in some cases the attacker cannot know this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yunxiao Qin , Yuanhao Xiong , Jinfeng Yi , Lihong Cao , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Diffusion models have shown to be strong representation learners, showcasing state-of-the-art performance across multiple domains. Aside from accelerated sampling, DDIM also enables the inversion of real images back to their latent codes. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Seunghoo Hong , Geonho Son , Juhun Lee , Simon S. Woo

Deep learning models often raise privacy concerns as they leak information about their training data. This enables an adversary to determine whether a data point was in a model's training set by conducting a membership inference attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yigitcan Kaya , Sanghyun Hong , Tudor Dumitras

Many adversarial attacks have been proposed to investigate the security issues of deep neural networks. In the black-box setting, current model stealing attacks train a substitute model to counterfeit the functionality of the target model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Jun-Hai Yong

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are critical tools for assessing privacy risks and ensuring compliance with regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, their potential for auditing unauthorized use of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Depeng Chen , Hao Chen , Hulin Jin , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong

The utilization of personal sensitive data in training face recognition (FR) models poses significant privacy concerns, as adversaries can employ model inversion attacks (MIA) to infer the original training data. Existing defense methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yinggui Wang , Yuanqing Huang , Jianshu Li , Le Yang , Kai Song , Lei Wang

The membership inference attack (MIA) is a popular paradigm for compromising the privacy of a machine learning (ML) model. MIA exploits the natural inclination of ML models to overfit upon the training data. MIAs are trained to distinguish…

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are currently a dominant approach for evaluating privacy in machine learning applications. Despite their significance in identifying records belonging to the training dataset, several concerns remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Cristina Pêra , Tânia Carvalho , Maxime Cordy , Luís Antunes

The majority of methods for crafting adversarial attacks have focused on scenes with a single dominant object (e.g., images from ImageNet). On the other hand, natural scenes include multiple dominant objects that are semantically related.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Abhishek Aich , Calvin-Khang Ta , Akash Gupta , Chengyu Song , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , M. Salman Asif , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Given the severe vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) against adversarial examples, there is an urgent need for an effective adversarial attack to identify the deficiencies of DNNs in security-sensitive applications. As one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Xiaosen Wang , Zeliang Zhang , Jianping Zhang

Image-to-image translation models are shown to be vulnerable to the Membership Inference Attack (MIA), in which the adversary's goal is to identify whether a sample is used to train the model or not. With daily increasing applications based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Lanjun Wang , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang

Multi-modal foundation models align images, text, and other modalities in a shared embedding space but remain vulnerable to adversarial illusions [35], where imperceptible perturbations disrupt cross-modal alignment and mislead downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Fatemeh Akbarian , Anahita Baninajjar , Yingyi Zhang , Ananth Balashankar , Amir Aminifar

Machine learning (ML) models have the potential to transform military battlefields, presenting a large external pressure to rapidly incorporate them into operational settings. However, it is well-established that these ML models are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Tyler Shumaker , Jessica Carpenter , David Saranchak , Nathaniel D. Bastian

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can mislead classifiers by adding imperceptible perturbations. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their good transferability, making black-box attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

In this paper we develop state-of-the-art privacy attacks against Large Language Models (LLMs), where an adversary with some access to the model tries to learn something about the underlying training data. Our headline results are new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jeffrey G. Wang , Jason Wang , Marvin Li , Seth Neel

Recent advancements in Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have revolutionized image synthesis and manipulation, raising significant concerns about data misappropriation and intellectual property infringement. While adversarial attacks have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Zhongliang Guo , Chun Tong Lei , Lei Fang , Shuai Zhao , Yifei Qian , Jingyu Lin , Zeyu Wang , Cunjian Chen , Ognjen Arandjelović , Chun Pong Lau

Foundation-style ECG encoders pretrained with self-supervised learning are increasingly reused across tasks, institutions, and deployment contexts, often through model-as-a-service interfaces that expose scalar scores or latent…