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We present SPARSI, a theoretical framework for partitioning sensitive data across multiple non-colluding adversaries. Most work in privacy-aware data sharing has considered disclosing summaries where the aggregate information about the data…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Theodoros Rekatsinas , Amol Deshpande , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Many mobile applications and virtual conversational agents now aim to recognize and adapt to emotions. To enable this, data are transmitted from users' devices and stored on central servers. Yet, these data contain sensitive information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Mimansa Jaiswal , Emily Mower Provost

This paper presents a privacy-preserving event detection scheme based on measurements made by a network of sensors. A diameter-like decision statistic made up of the marginal types of the measurements observed by the sensors is employed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaoshan Wang , Tan F. Wong

Membership inference attack (MIA) has become one of the most widely used and effective methods for evaluating the privacy risks of machine learning models. These attacks aim to determine whether a specific sample is part of the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jing Xue , Zhishen Sun , Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Xiangyu Chang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Differential privacy is among the most prominent techniques for preserving privacy of sensitive data, oweing to its robust mathematical guarantees and general applicability to a vast array of computations on data, including statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Naoise Holohan , Stefano Braghin

Sequence models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and autoregressive image generators, have a tendency to memorize and inadvertently leak sensitive information. While this tendency has critical legal implications, existing tools are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Lorenzo Rossi , Michael Aerni , Jie Zhang , Florian Tramèr

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that mislead models with imperceptible perturbations. In audio, although adversarial examples have achieved incredible attack success rates on white-box settings and black-box…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Deng JiaCheng , Dong Li , Yan Diqun , Wang Rangding , Zeng Jiaming

The privacy-utility tradeoff problem is formulated as determining the privacy mechanism (random mapping) that minimizes the mutual information (a metric for privacy leakage) between the private features of the original dataset and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kousha Kalantari , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Given a combinatorial optimization problem taking an input, can we learn a strategy to solve it from the examples of input-solution pairs without knowing its objective function? In this paper, we consider such a setting and study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Guangmo Tong

Research has proven that end-to-end malware detectors are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In response, the research community has proposed defenses based on randomized and (de)randomized smoothing. However, these techniques remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Daniel Gibert , Felip Manyà

Data sharing between different organizations is an essential process in today's connected world. However, recently there were many concerns about data sharing as sharing sensitive information can jeopardize users' privacy. To preserve the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Tapadhir Das , Anuraag Kotra , Shamik Sengupta

We consider the problem of revealing/sharing data in an efficient and secure way via a compact representation. The representation should ensure reliable reconstruction of the desired features/attributes while still preserve privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Giuseppe Caire

We consider a mobile edge computing scenario where a number of devices want to perform a linear inference $\boldsymbol{W}\boldsymbol{x}$ on some local data $\boldsymbol{x}$ given a network-side matrix $\boldsymbol{W}$. The computation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Reent Schlegel , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Membership Inference Attacks have emerged as a dominant method for empirically measuring privacy leakage from machine learning models. Here, privacy is measured by the {\em{advantage}} or gap between a score or a function computed on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ruihan Wu , Pengrun Huang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Non-parametric two-sample tests (TSTs) that judge whether two sets of samples are drawn from the same distribution, have been widely used in the analysis of critical data. People tend to employ TSTs as trusted basic tools and rarely have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Xilie Xu , Jingfeng Zhang , Feng Liu , Masashi Sugiyama , Mohan Kankanhalli

Graph generative diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for generating complex graph structures, effectively capturing intricate dependencies and relationships within graph data. However, the privacy risks associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiuling Wang , Xin Huang , Guibo Luo , Jianliang Xu

Deep Learning has been shown to be particularly vulnerable to adversarial samples. To combat adversarial strategies, numerous defensive techniques have been proposed. Among these, a promising approach is to use randomness in order to make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Kumar Sharad , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Hien Thi Thu Truong , Ghassan Karame

We introduce a new class of attacks on machine learning models. We show that an adversary who can poison a training dataset can cause models trained on this dataset to leak significant private details of training points belonging to other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Florian Tramèr , Reza Shokri , Ayrton San Joaquin , Hoang Le , Matthew Jagielski , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini

Defending against adversarial examples remains an open problem. A common belief is that randomness at inference increases the cost of finding adversarial inputs. An example of such a defense is to apply a random transformation to inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yue Gao , Ilia Shumailov , Kassem Fawaz , Nicolas Papernot

We propose a new randomized ensemble technique with a provable security guarantee against black-box transfer attacks. Our proof constructs a new security problem for random binary classifiers which is easier to empirically verify and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Kevin Shi , Daniel Hsu , Allison Bishop