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Federated learning is emerging as a machine learning technique that trains a model across multiple decentralized parties. It is renowned for preserving privacy as the data never leaves the computational devices, and recent approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yuchen Li , Yifan Bao , Liyao Xiang , Junhan Liu , Cen Chen , Li Wang , Xinbing Wang

Users in various web and mobile applications are vulnerable to attribute inference attacks, in which an attacker leverages a machine learning classifier to infer a target user's private attributes (e.g., location, sexual orientation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing their raw data. While FL enhances data privacy by design, it remains vulnerable…

Federated learning (FL) has been widely studied recently due to its property to collaboratively train data from different devices without sharing the raw data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that an adversary can still be possible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Caridad Arroyo Arevalo , Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Yun Dong , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

As Machine Learning (ML) evolves, the complexity and sophistication of security threats against this paradigm continue to grow as well, threatening data privacy and model integrity. In response, Machine Unlearning (MU) is a recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Muhammed Shafi K. P. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data locally stored on client devices, preventing access from other clients or the central server. However, recent studies reveal that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ren-Yi Huang , Dumindu Samaraweera , Prashant Shekhar , J. Morris Chang

The privacy of machine learning models has become a significant concern in many emerging Machine-Learning-as-a-Service applications, where prediction services based on well-trained models are offered to users via pay-per-query. The lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xun Xian , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

The uses of Machine Learning (ML) in detection of network attacks have been effective when designed and evaluated in a single organisation. However, it has been very challenging to design an ML-based detection system by utilising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mohanad Sarhan , Siamak Layeghy , Nour Moustafa , Marius Portmann

Federated learning is a machine learning paradigm that emerges as a solution to the privacy-preservation demands in artificial intelligence. As machine learning, federated learning is threatened by adversarial attacks against the integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , Daniel Jiménez López , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera , Eugenio Martínez-Cámara

Machine unlearning is an emerging technique that aims to remove the influence of specific data from trained models, thereby enhancing privacy protection. However, recent research has uncovered critical privacy vulnerabilities, showing that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Lulu Xue , Shengshan Hu , Wei Lu , Ziqi Zhou , Yufei Song , Jianhong Cheng , Minghui Li , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang

This work investigates and evaluates multiple defense strategies against property inference attacks (PIAs), a privacy attack against machine learning models. Given a trained machine learning model, PIAs aim to extract statistical properties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Joshua Stock , Jens Wettlaufer , Daniel Demmler , Hannes Federrath

Malicious adversaries can attack machine learning models to infer sensitive information or damage the system by launching a series of evasion attacks. Although various work addresses privacy and security concerns, they focus on individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Janvi Thakkar , Giulio Zizzo , Sergio Maffeis

As machine learning expanding application, there are more and more unignorable privacy and safety issues. Especially inference attacks against Machine Learning models allow adversaries to infer sensitive information about the target model,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to collectively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. However, recent studies demonstrate that information exchanged during FL is subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Pengxin Guo , Shuang Zeng , Wenhao Chen , Xiaodan Zhang , Weihong Ren , Yuyin Zhou , Liangqiong Qu

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Federated Learning (FL) offers innovative solutions for privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning (ML). Despite its promising potential, FL is vulnerable to various attacks due to its distributed nature, affecting the entire life…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yanli Li , Zhongliang Guo , Nan Yang , Huaming Chen , Dong Yuan , Weiping Ding

Multitask learning (MTL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that leverages similarities among multiple learning tasks, each with insufficient samples to train a standalone model, to solve them simultaneously while minimizing data sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 John Abascal , Nicolás Berrios , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman , Adam Smith , Matthew Jagielski

Machine learning models leak information about the datasets on which they are trained. An adversary can build an algorithm to trace the individual members of a model's training dataset. As a fundamental inference attack, he aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Milad Nasr , Reza Shokri , Amir Houmansadr

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to specific tasks introduces concerns about computational efficiency, prompting an exploration of efficient methods such as In-Context Learning (ICL). However, the vulnerability of ICL to privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Rui Wen , Zheng Li , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

This paper studies defense mechanisms against model inversion (MI) attacks -- a type of privacy attacks aimed at inferring information about the training data distribution given the access to a target machine learning model. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Tianhao Wang , Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia