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Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to be vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. An important observation is that, while different types of jailbreak attacks can generate significantly different queries, they mostly result in similar responses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zhexin Zhang , Junxiao Yang , Yida Lu , Pei Ke , Shiyao Cui , Chujie Zheng , Hongning Wang , Minlie Huang

In the context of machine unlearning, the primary challenge lies in effectively removing traces of private data from trained models while maintaining model performance and security against privacy attacks like membership inference attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tao Huang , Ziyang Chen , Jiayang Meng , Qingyu Huang , Xu Yang , Xun Yi , Ibrahim Khalil

Model stealing attacks present a dilemma for public machine learning APIs. To protect financial investments, companies may be forced to withhold important information about their models that could facilitate theft, including uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mantas Mazeika , Bo Li , David Forsyth

As intellectual property rights, the copyright protection of deep models is becoming increasingly important. Existing work has made many attempts at model watermarking and fingerprinting, but they have ignored homologous models trained with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haifeng Sun , Lan Zhang , Xiang-Yang Li

The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities across various domains and applications; yet it also presents challenges related to potential misuse. To mitigate such risks, red teaming has been employed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yifan Jiang , Kriti Aggarwal , Tanmay Laud , Kashif Munir , Jay Pujara , Subhabrata Mukherjee

This work delves into the complexities of machine unlearning in the face of distributional shifts, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by non-uniform feature and label removal. With the advent of regulations like the GDPR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ling Han , Nanqing Luo , Hao Huang , Jing Chen , Mary-Anne Hartley

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Model extraction attacks are one type of inference-time attacks that approximate the functionality and performance of a black-box victim model by launching a certain number of queries to the model and then leveraging the model's predictions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixu Wang , Tianle Gu , Yan Teng , Yingchun Wang , Xingjun Ma

Duplication is a prevalent issue within datasets. Existing research has demonstrated that the presence of duplicated data in training datasets can significantly influence both model performance and data privacy. However, the impact of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Jiayang Li , Kun Gao , Bo Liu , Leo Yu Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Yang Zhang

Existing data-free model stealing methods use a generator to produce samples in order to train a student model to match the target model outputs. To this end, the two main challenges are estimating gradients of the target model without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 James Beetham , Navid Kardan , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model with the assistance of a server. However, its distributed nature makes it susceptible to poisoning attacks, where malicious clients can compromise the global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Wenbin Wang , Qiwen Ma , Zifan Zhang , Yuchen Liu , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang

Black-box adversarial attacks present a realistic threat to action recognition systems. Existing black-box attacks follow either a query-based approach where an attack is optimized by querying the target model, or a transfer-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Deep neural network (DNN) as a popular machine learning model is found to be vulnerable to adversarial attack. This attack constructs adversarial examples by adding small perturbations to the raw input, while appearing unmodified to human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Pengcheng Li , Jinfeng Yi , Lijun Zhang

We address the problem of offline learning a policy that avoids undesirable demonstrations. Unlike conventional offline imitation learning approaches that aim to imitate expert or near-optimal demonstrations, our setting involves avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Huy Hoang , Tien Mai , Pradeep Varakantham

The raise of machine learning and deep learning led to significant improvement in several domains. This change is supported by both the dramatic rise in computation power and the collection of large datasets. Such massive datasets often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hamid Jalalzai , Elie Kadoche , Rémi Leluc , Vincent Plassier

This paper investigates a class of attacks targeting the confidentiality aspect of security in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies. Recent research have established the vulnerability of supervised machine learning models (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Vahid Behzadan , William Hsu

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

Collaborative machine learning settings like federated learning can be susceptible to adversarial interference and attacks. One class of such attacks is termed model inversion attacks, characterised by the adversary reverse-engineering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dmitrii Usynin , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Public intelligent services enabled by machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to model extraction attacks that can steal confidential information of the learning models through public queries. Though there are some protection options…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haonan Yan , Xiaoguang Li , Hui Li , Jiamin Li , Wenhai Sun , Fenghua Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) deployed as cloud services can be stolen through model-extraction attacks, which train a surrogate from query responses to reproduce the target's behavior, and a growing line of ownership defenses tries to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kaixiang Zhao , Bolin Shen , Yuyang Dai , Shayok Chakraborty , Yushun Dong