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Artificial Intelligence (AI) finds widespread application across various domains, but it sparks concerns about fairness in its deployment. The prevailing discourse in classification often emphasizes outcome-based metrics comparing sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Sofie Goethals , Marco Favier , Toon Calders

Training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive data has become a popular practice, driving innovation in ever-expanding fields. This has opened the door to new attacks that can have serious privacy implications. One such attack, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Thomas Humphries , Simon Oya , Lindsey Tulloch , Matthew Rafuse , Ian Goldberg , Urs Hengartner , Florian Kerschbaum

Computers are increasingly used to make decisions that have significant impact in people's lives. Often, these predictions can affect different population subgroups disproportionately. As a result, the issue of fairness has received much…

Machine learning (ML) models have been deployed for high-stakes applications. Due to class imbalance in the sensitive attribute observed in the datasets, ML models are unfair on minority subgroups identified by a sensitive attribute, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Jan Aalmoes , Vasisht Duddu , Antoine Boutet

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly explored for their energy efficiency and robustness in real-world applications, yet their privacy risks remain largely unexamined. In this work, we investigate the susceptibility of SNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Junyi Guan , Abhijith Sharma , Chong Tian , Salem Lahlou

Foundation-style ECG encoders pretrained with self-supervised learning are increasingly reused across tasks, institutions, and deployment contexts, often through model-as-a-service interfaces that expose scalar scores or latent…

An over-the-air membership inference attack (MIA) is presented to leak private information from a wireless signal classifier. Machine learning (ML) provides powerful means to classify wireless signals, e.g., for PHY-layer authentication. As…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are heavily based on the availability of training data, which, depending on the domain, often includes sensitive information about data providers. This raises critical privacy concerns. Anonymization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Héber H. Arcolezi , Mina Alishahi , Adda-Akram Bendoukha , Nesrine Kaaniche

Over the last few years, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent method in machine learning, emphasizing privacy preservation by allowing multiple clients to collaboratively build a model while keeping their training data…

Neural network-based image classifiers are powerful tools for computer vision tasks, but they inadvertently reveal sensitive attribute information about their classes, raising concerns about their privacy. To investigate this privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Felix Friedrich , Manuel Brack , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting

Machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance in many areas. However, the concerns that they can be biased against specific demographic groups hinder their adoption in high-stake applications. Thus, it is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Canyu Chen , Yueqing Liang , Xiongxiao Xu , Shangyu Xie , Ashish Kundu , Ali Payani , Yuan Hong , Kai Shu

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to infer whether a data point has been used to train a machine learning model. These attacks can be employed to identify potential privacy vulnerabilities and detect unauthorized use of personal data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Myeongseob Ko , Ming Jin , Chenguang Wang , Ruoxi Jia

The widespread deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across government and private industries brings both advancements and heightened privacy and security concerns. Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Payel Sadhukhan , Tanujit Chakraborty

Membership Inference Attacks exploit the vulnerabilities of exposing models trained on customer data to queries by an adversary. In a recently proposed implementation of an auditing tool for measuring privacy leakage from sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Abhinav Aggarwal , Zekun Xu , Oluwaseyi Feyisetan , Nathanael Teissier

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are widely used to assess the privacy risks associated with machine learning models. However, when these attacks are applied to pre-trained large language models (LLMs), they encounter significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Meng Tong , Yuntao Du , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Ninghui Li

The arms race between attacks and defenses for machine learning models has come to a forefront in recent years, in both the security community and the privacy community. However, one big limitation of previous research is that the security…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-27 Liwei Song , Reza Shokri , Prateek Mittal

This paper presents a philosophical and experimental study of fairness interventions in AI classification, centered on the explainability of corrective methods. We argue that ensuring fairness requires not only satisfying a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Souverain , Johnathan Nguyen , Nicolas Meric , Paul Égré

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are currently a dominant approach for evaluating privacy in machine learning applications. Despite their significance in identifying records belonging to the training dataset, several concerns remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Cristina Pêra , Tânia Carvalho , Maxime Cordy , Luís Antunes

The successful deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in many domains from healthcare to hiring requires their responsible use, particularly in model explanations and privacy. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) provides more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xuejun Zhao , Wencan Zhang , Xiaokui Xiao , Brian Y. Lim

Determining whether a dataset was part of a machine learning model's training data pool can reveal privacy vulnerabilities, a challenge often addressed through membership inference attacks (MIAs). Traditional MIAs typically require access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yongchao Huang