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Recent advancements in AI models are structured to retain user interactions, which could inadvertently include sensitive healthcare data. In the healthcare field, particularly when radiologists use AI-driven diagnostic tools hosted on…

Unlearnable examples (UEs) aim to compromise model training by injecting imperceptible perturbations to clean samples. However, existing UE schemes exhibit limited robustness against advanced defenses due to their heuristic design or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xianlong Wang , Hangtao Zhang , Wenbo Pan , Ziqi Zhou , Changsong Jiang , Li Zeng , Xiaohua Jia

In an era of widespread web scraping, unlearnable dataset methods have the potential to protect data privacy by preventing deep neural networks from generalizing. But in addition to a number of practical limitations that make their use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Pedro Sandoval-Segura , Vasu Singla , Jonas Geiping , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Recent work has shown that imperceptible perturbations can be applied to craft unlearnable examples (ULEs), i.e. images whose content cannot be used to improve a classifier during training. In this paper, we reveal the road that researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zhuoran Liu , Zhengyu Zhao , Alex Kolmus , Tijn Berns , Twan van Laarhoven , Tom Heskes , Martha Larson

The open source of large amounts of image data promotes the development of deep learning techniques. Along with this comes the privacy risk of these open-source image datasets being exploited by unauthorized third parties to train deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yixin Liu , Kaidi Xu , Xun Chen , Lichao Sun

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation tasks, paving the way for powerful AIGC applications. However, these widely-used generative models can also raise security and privacy concerns, such as copyright…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhengyue Zhao , Jinhao Duan , Xing Hu , Kaidi Xu , Chenan Wang , Rui Zhang , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

With more people publishing their personal data online, unauthorized data usage has become a serious concern. The unlearnable strategies have been introduced to prevent third parties from training on the data without permission. They add…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Jie Ren , Han Xu , Yuxuan Wan , Xingjun Ma , Lichao Sun , Jiliang Tang

As for software development by machine learning, a trained model is evaluated by using part of an existing dataset as test data. However, if data with characteristics that differ from the existing data is input, the model does not always…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Naoto Sato , Hironobu Kuruma , Hideto Ogawa

Automated scraping stands out as a common method for collecting data in deep learning models without the authorization of data owners. Recent studies have begun to tackle the privacy concerns associated with this data collection method.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Thushari Hapuarachchi , Jing Lin , Kaiqi Xiong , Mohamed Rahouti , Gitte Ost

Unlearnable examples (UEs) seek to maximize testing error by making subtle modifications to training examples that are correctly labeled. Defenses against these poisoning attacks can be categorized based on whether specific interventions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Machine learning models trained on vast amounts of real or synthetic data often achieve outstanding predictive performance across various domains. However, this utility comes with increasing concerns about privacy, as the training data may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Binhao Ma , Tianhang Zheng , Hongsheng Hu , Di Wang , Shuo Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

The widespread use of face recognition technology has given rise to privacy concerns, as many individuals are worried about the collection and utilization of their facial data. To address these concerns, researchers are actively exploring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Zhiling Zhang , Jie Zhang , Kui Zhang , Wenbo Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

While the use of graph-structured data in various fields is becoming increasingly popular, it also raises concerns about the potential unauthorized exploitation of personal data for training commercial graph neural network (GNN) models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yixin Liu , Chenrui Fan , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

Machine unlearning offers a practical alternative to avoid full model re-training by approximately removing the influence of specific user data. While existing methods certify unlearning via statistical indistinguishability from re-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hsiang Hsu , Pradeep Niroula , Zichang He , Ivan Brugere , Freddy Lecue , Chun-Fu Chen

This paper describes a testing methodology for quantitatively assessing the risk that rare or unique training-data sequences are unintentionally memorized by generative sequence models---a common type of machine-learning model. Because such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Nicholas Carlini , Chang Liu , Úlfar Erlingsson , Jernej Kos , Dawn Song

Unexploitable example generation aims to transform personal images into their unexploitable (unlearnable) versions before they are uploaded online, thereby preventing unauthorized exploitation of online personal images. Recently, this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haoxuan Qu , Qiuchi Xiang , Yujun Cai , Yirui Wu , Majid Mirmehdi , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Most existing unlearnable strategies focus on preventing unauthorized users from training single-task learning (STL) models with personal data. Nevertheless, the paradigm has recently shifted towards multi-task data and multi-task learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Siyuan Yang , Chenqi Kong , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Private data, when published online, may be collected by unauthorized parties to train deep neural networks (DNNs). To protect privacy, defensive noises can be added to original samples to degrade their learnability by DNNs. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xueluan Gong , Yuji Wang , Yanjiao Chen , Haocheng Dong , Yiming Li , Mengyuan Sun , Shuaike Li , Qian Wang , Chen Chen

Domain generalization (DG) aims to help models trained on a set of source domains generalize better on unseen target domains. The performances of current DG methods largely rely on sufficient labeled data, which are usually costly or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xingxuan Zhang , Linjun Zhou , Renzhe Xu , Peng Cui , Zheyan Shen , Haoxin Liu

Exact unlearning was first introduced as a privacy mechanism that allowed a user to retract their data from machine learning models on request. Shortly after, inexact schemes were proposed to mitigate the impractical costs associated with…