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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized various domains with their exceptional performance across numerous applications. However, Model Inversion (MI) attacks, which disclose private information about the training dataset by abusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Hao Fang , Yixiang Qiu , Hongyao Yu , Wenbo Yu , Jiawei Kong , Baoli Chong , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

A major concern of Machine Learning (ML) models is their opacity. They are deployed in an increasing number of applications where they often operate as black boxes that do not provide explanations for their predictions. Among others, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Pepa Atanasova

Training reliable deep learning models which avoid making overconfident but incorrect predictions is a longstanding challenge. This challenge is further exacerbated when learning has to be differentially private: protection provided to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Stephan Rabanser , Anvith Thudi , Abhradeep Thakurta , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Nicolas Papernot

Machine learning models should not reveal particular information that is not otherwise accessible. Differential privacy provides a formal framework to mitigate privacy risks by ensuring that the inclusion or exclusion of any single data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

In recent years, semantic communication has been a popular research topic for its superiority in communication efficiency. As semantic communication relies on deep learning to extract meaning from raw messages, it is vulnerable to attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

In Embedding-as-an-Interface (EaaI) settings, pre-trained models are queried for Intermediate Representations (IRs). The distributional properties of IRs can leak training-set membership signals, enabling Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Chen Hou , Guolong Zheng , Hong Chen

With the growing adoption of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms, such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), training or fine-tuning models on private datasets has become increasingly prevalent. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hong Guan , Lei Yu , Lixi Zhou , Li Xiong , Kanchan Chowdhury , Lulu Xie , Xusheng Xiao , Jia Zou

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…

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods are portrayed as a remedy for debugging and trusting statistical and deep learning models, as well as interpreting their predictions. However, recent advances in adversarial machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Hubert Baniecki , Przemyslaw Biecek

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as a pivotal methodology for transferring advanced capabilities from leading proprietary LLMs, such as GPT-4, to their open-source counterparts like LLaMA and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaohan Xu , Ming Li , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Reynold Cheng , Jinyang Li , Can Xu , Dacheng Tao , Tianyi Zhou

In federated learning (FL), although the original intention of available but not visible data is to allay data privacy concerns, it potentially brings new security threats, particularly poisoning attacks that target such not visible local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Sun , Bo Gao , Ke Xiong , Yuwei Wang , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) represent a promising alternative to autoregressive language models, using bidirectional masked token prediction. Yet their susceptibility to privacy leakage via Membership Inference Attacks (MIA) remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuetian Chen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Yuntao Du , Edoardo Stoppa , Charles Fleming , Ashish Kundu , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

Motivation: Many high-performance DTA models have been proposed, but they are mostly black-box and thus lack human interpretability. Explainable AI (XAI) can make DTA models more trustworthy, and can also enable scientists to distill…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Tri Minh Nguyen , Thomas P Quinn , Thin Nguyen , Truyen Tran

Privacy leakage in AI-based decision processes poses significant risks, particularly when sensitive information can be inferred. We propose a formal framework to audit privacy leakage using abductive explanations, which identifies minimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Belona Sonna , Alban Grastien , Claire Benn

Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs). Although various defenses have been proposed, there is still substantial room for improvement in the privacy-utility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuefeng Peng , Ali Naseh , Amir Houmansadr

This paper presents a novel approach to Explainable AI (XAI) that combines contrastive explanations with differential privacy for clustering algorithms. Focusing on k-median and k-means problems, we calculate contrastive explanations as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dung Nguyen , Ariel Vetzler , Sarit Kraus , Anil Vullikanti

A variety of explanation methods have been proposed in recent years to help users gain insights into the results returned by neural networks, which are otherwise complex and opaque black-boxes. However, explanations give rise to potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Pengrui Quan , Supriyo Chakraborty , Jeya Vikranth Jeyakumar , Mani Srivastava

As the adoption of explainable AI (XAI) continues to expand, the urgency to address its privacy implications intensifies. Despite a growing corpus of research in AI privacy and explainability, there is little attention on privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Zhao Ren , Thanh Toan Nguyen , Phi Le Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

In this paper, we introduce strategies for developing private Key Information Extraction (KIE) systems by leveraging large pretrained document foundation models in conjunction with differential privacy (DP), federated learning (FL), and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Saifullah Saifullah , Stefan Agne , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Machine learning models are susceptible to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer whether a sample is in the training set. Existing work utilizes gradient ascent to enlarge the loss variance of training data, alleviating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhenlong Liu , Lei Feng , Huiping Zhuang , Xiaofeng Cao , Hongxin Wei