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As machine learning (ML) technologies become more prevalent in privacy-sensitive areas like healthcare and finance, eventually incorporating sensitive information in building data-driven algorithms, it is vital to scrutinize whether these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ehsanul Kabir , Lucas Craig , Shagufta Mehnaz

Recent studies have revealed that federated learning (FL), once considered secure due to clients not sharing their private data with the server, is vulnerable to attacks such as client-side training data distribution inference, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yichang Xu , Ming Yin , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Unsupervised person re-ID is the task of identifying people on a target data set for which the ID labels are unavailable during training. In this paper, we propose to unify two trends in unsupervised person re-ID: clustering & fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Guillaume Delorme , Yihong Xu , Stephane Lathuilière , Radu Horaud , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Recommender systems have been widely deployed across various domains such as e-commerce and social media, and intelligently suggest items like products and potential friends to users based on their preferences and interaction history, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xiaoxiao Chi , Xuyun Zhang , Yan Wang , Hongsheng Hu , Wanchun Dou

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

In a membership inference attack, an attacker aims to infer whether a data sample is in a target classifier's training dataset or not. Specifically, given a black-box access to the target classifier, the attacker trains a binary classifier,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Jinyuan Jia , Ahmed Salem , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Real-time Adversarial Intelligence and Decision-making (RAID) program is investigating the feasibility of "reading the mind of the enemy" - to estimate and anticipate, in real-time, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Michael Ownby , Alexander Kott

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Machine learning (ML) is vulnerable to inference (e.g., membership inference, property inference, and data reconstruction) attacks that aim to infer the private information of training data or dataset. Existing defenses are only designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Binghui Zhang , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Neural networks are susceptible to data inference attacks such as the membership inference attack, the adversarial model inversion attack and the attribute inference attack, where the attacker could infer useful information such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ziqi Yang , Lijin Wang , Da Yang , Jie Wan , Ziming Zhao , Ee-Chien Chang , Fan Zhang , Kui Ren

The need for secure and private Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) on edge and mobile devices has increased the necessity of protecting the architecture of these systems from threats to both security and privacy. With an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zisis Tsiatsikas , Alexandros Fakis , Georgios Karopoulos , Vasileios Kouliaridis , Marios Anagnostopoulos

With increasingly deployed deep neural networks in sensitive application domains, such as healthcare and security, it's essential to understand what kind of sensitive information can be inferred from these models. Most known model-targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuechun Gu , Jiajie He , Keke Chen

Pedestrian attributes, e.g., hair length, clothes type and color, locally describe the semantic appearance of a person. Training person re-identification (ReID) algorithms under the supervision of such attributes have proven to be effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Xiangping Zhu , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can infer private user attributes (e.g., age, location, gender) from user-generated text shared online, enabling rapid and large-scale privacy breaches. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dong Yan , Jian Liang , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

While person Re-identification (Re-ID) has progressed rapidly due to its wide real-world applications, it also causes severe risks of leaking personal information from training data. Thus, this paper focuses on quantifying this risk by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Junyao Gao , Xinyang Jiang , Huishuai Zhang , Yifan Yang , Shuguang Dou , Dongsheng Li , Duoqian Miao , Cheng Deng , Cairong Zhao

Distribution inference, sometimes called property inference, infers statistical properties about a training set from access to a model trained on that data. Distribution inference attacks can pose serious risks when models are trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Anshuman Suri , David Evans

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning approach where clients train models locally and share model updates to develop a global model. This enables low-resource devices to collaboratively build a high-quality model without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Li Bai , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Haoyang Li , Leixia Wang , Jianliang Xu

Machine learning is a powerful tool enabling full automation of a huge number of tasks without explicit programming. Despite recent progress of machine learning in different domains, these models have shown vulnerabilities when they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mohammad Meymani , Roozbeh Razavi-Far

Adversarial training aims to defend against adversaries: malicious opponents whose sole aim is to harm predictive performance in any way possible. This presents a rather harsh perspective, which we assert results in unnecessarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Maayan Ehrenberg , Roy Ganz , Nir Rosenfeld

Many real-world applications, such as city-scale traffic monitoring and control, requires large-scale re-identification. However, previous ReID methods often failed to address two limitations in existing ReID benchmarks, i.e., low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ye Yuan , Wuyang Chen , Tianlong Chen , Yang Yang , Zhou Ren , Zhangyang Wang , Gang Hua