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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which generalize traditional deep neural networks on graph data, have achieved state-of-the-art performance on several graph analytical tasks. We focus on how trained GNN models could leak information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Wolfgang Nejdl , Megha Khosla

The remarkable predictive performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to their adoption in service domains of unprecedented scale and scope. However, the widespread adoption and growing commercialization of DNNs have underscored the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Nandan Kumar Jha , Sparsh Mittal , Binod Kumar , Govardhan Mattela

Advanced deep neural networks (DNNs), designed by either human or AutoML algorithms, are growing increasingly complex. Diverse operations are connected by complicated connectivity patterns, e.g., various types of skip connections. Those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Wuyang Chen , Wei Huang , Xinyu Gong , Boris Hanin , Zhangyang Wang

Gradient inversion attacks on federated learning systems reconstruct client training data from exchanged gradient information. To defend against such attacks, a variety of defense mechanisms were proposed. However, they usually lead to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Daniel Scheliga , Patrick Mäder , Marco Seeland

These days, deep learning models have achieved great success in multiple fields, from autonomous driving to medical diagnosis. These models have expanded the abilities of artificial intelligence by offering great solutions to complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gopichandh Golla

Mobile edge devices see increased demands in deep neural networks (DNNs) inference while suffering from stringent constraints in computing resources. Split computing (SC) emerges as a popular approach to the issue by executing only initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Dong , Hongxu Yin , Jose M. Alvarez , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov , H. T. Kung

The success of DNNs has driven the extensive applications of person re-identification (ReID) into a new era. However, whether ReID inherits the vulnerability of DNNs remains unexplored. To examine the robustness of ReID systems is rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Hongjun Wang , Guangrun Wang , Ya Li , Dongyu Zhang , Liang Lin

Utilization of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, especially Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, becomes a widely accepted standard in many domains more particularly IoT-based systems. DNN models reach impressive performances in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Raphaël Joud , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Rémi Bernhard , Jean-Baptiste Rigaud

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

To promote secure and private artificial intelligence (SPAI), we review studies on the model security and data privacy of DNNs. Model security allows system to behave as intended without being affected by malicious external influences that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Ho Bae , Jaehee Jang , Dahuin Jung , Hyemi Jang , Heonseok Ha , Hyungyu Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Model inversion (MI) attacks have raised increasing concerns about privacy, which can reconstruct training data from public models. Indeed, MI attacks can be formalized as an optimization problem that seeks private data in a certain space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xiaojian Yuan , Kejiang Chen , Jie Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Yang Zhang

A graph neural network (GNN) is a type of neural network that is specifically designed to process graph-structured data. Typically, GNNs can be implemented in two settings, including the transductive setting and the inductive setting. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yixin Wu , Xinlei He , Pascal Berrang , Mathias Humbert , Michael Backes , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

Transforming off-the-shelf deep neural network (DNN) models into dynamic multi-exit architectures can achieve inference and transmission efficiency by fragmenting and distributing a large DNN model in edge computing scenarios (e.g., edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tian Dong , Ziyuan Zhang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Hewu Li , Terry Wang

Recently backdoor attack has become an emerging threat to the security of deep neural network (DNN) models. To date, most of the existing studies focus on backdoor attack against the uncompressed model; while the vulnerability of compressed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Huy Phan , Cong Shi , Yi Xie , Tianfang Zhang , Zhuohang Li , Tianming Zhao , Jian Liu , Yan Wang , Yingying Chen , Bo Yuan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown great promise in various domains. However, vulnerabilities associated with DNN training, such as backdoor attacks, are a significant concern. These attacks involve the subtle insertion of triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Bart Pleiter , Behrad Tajalli , Stefanos Koffas , Gorka Abad , Jing Xu , Martha Larson , Stjepan Picek

Although powerful graph neural networks (GNNs) have boosted numerous real-world applications, the potential privacy risk is still underexplored. To close this gap, we perform the first comprehensive study of graph reconstruction attack that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhanke Zhou , Chenyu Zhou , Xuan Li , Jiangchao Yao , Quanming Yao , Bo Han

In this paper, we present a stealthy and effective attack that exposes privacy vulnerabilities in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by inferring private links within graph-structured data. Focusing on the inductive setting where new nodes join…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Oualid Zari , Javier Parra-Arnau , Ayşe Ünsal , Melek Önen

Gradient Inversion Attacks invert the transmitted gradients in Federated Learning (FL) systems to reconstruct the sensitive data of local clients and have raised considerable privacy concerns. A majority of gradient inversion methods rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wenbo Yu , Hao Fang , Bin Chen , Xiaohang Sui , Chuan Chen , Hao Wu , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have gained popularity owing to their practical problem-solving capacity. However, they suffer from a serious integrity threat, i.e., their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. In the quest for DL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Rida El-Allami , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique , Ihsen Alouani

Recently, diffusion models have become popular tools for image synthesis because of their high-quality outputs. However, like other large-scale models, they may leak private information about their training data. Here, we demonstrate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shuai Tang , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Sergul Aydore , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth