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Machine learning (ML) models have been widely applied to various applications, including image classification, text generation, audio recognition, and graph data analysis. However, recent studies have shown that ML models are vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Hongsheng Hu , Zoran Salcic , Lichao Sun , Gillian Dobbie , Philip S. Yu , Xuyun Zhang

In recent years, recommender systems are crucially important for the delivery of personalized services that satisfy users' preferences. With personalized recommendation services, users can enjoy a variety of recommendations such as movies,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shijie Zhang , Wei Yuan , Hongzhi Yin

We propose new privacy attacks to infer attributes (e.g., locations, occupations, and interests) of online social network users. Our attacks leverage seemingly innocent user information that is publicly available in online social networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Bin Liu

Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs). Although various defenses have been proposed, there is still substantial room for improvement in the privacy-utility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuefeng Peng , Ali Naseh , Amir Houmansadr

Federated learning systems are increasingly threatened by data poisoning attacks, where malicious clients compromise global models by contributing tampered updates. Existing defenses often rely on impractical assumptions, such as access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

Recommender systems (RecSys) have been widely applied to various applications, including E-commerce, finance, healthcare, social media and have become increasingly influential in shaping user behavior and decision-making, highlighting their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jiajie He , Xintong Chen , Xinyang Fang , Min-Chun Chen , Yuechun Gu , Keke Chen

Aggregate location data is often used to support smart services and applications, e.g., generating live traffic maps or predicting visits to businesses. In this paper, we present the first study on the feasibility of membership inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Carmela Troncoso , Emiliano De Cristofaro

The prosperity of machine learning has also brought people's concerns about data privacy. Among them, inference attacks can implement privacy breaches in various MLaaS scenarios and model training/prediction phases. Specifically, inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Feng Wu , Lei Cui , Shaowen Yao , Shui Yu

We describe and evaluate an attack that reconstructs the histogram of any target attribute of a sensitive dataset which can only be queried through a specific class of real-world privacy-preserving algorithms which we call bounded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hassan Jameel Asghar , Dali Kaafar

The potential of transformer-based LLMs risks being hindered by privacy concerns due to their reliance on extensive datasets, possibly including sensitive information. Regulatory measures like GDPR and CCPA call for using robust auditing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Filippo Galli , Luca Melis , Tommaso Cucinotta

Deep neural networks for classification are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where small perturbations to input samples lead to incorrect predictions. This susceptibility, combined with the black-box nature of such networks, limits their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Dipkamal Bhusal , Md Tanvirul Alam , Monish K. Veerabhadran , Michael Clifford , Sara Rampazzi , Nidhi Rastogi

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

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) infer whether a data point is in the training data of a machine learning model. It is a threat while being in the training data is private information of a data point. MIA correctly infers some data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Mauro Conti , Jiaxin Li , Stjepan Picek

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising framework for collaboratively training machine learning models across decentralized genomic datasets without direct data sharing. While this approach preserves data locality, it remains susceptible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chetan Pathade , Shubham Patil

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a serious threat to the privacy of machine learning models by allowing adversaries to determine whether a specific data sample was included in the training set. Although federated learning (FL) is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mohammad Zare , Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki

In contrast to prevalent Federated Learning (FL) privacy inference techniques such as generative adversarial networks attacks, membership inference attacks, property inference attacks, and model inversion attacks, we devise an innovative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Zhiyang Dai , Chunyi Zhou , Anmin Fu

Privacy-preserving computing is crucial for multi-center machine learning in many applications such as healthcare and finance. In this paper a Multi-center Privacy Computing framework with Predictions Aggregation (MPCPA) based on denoising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guibo Luo , Hanwen Zhang , Xiuling Wang , Mingzhi Chen , Yuesheng Zhu

Since machine learning model is often trained on a limited data set, the model is trained multiple times on the same data sample, which causes the model to memorize most of the training set data. Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Depeng Chen , Xiao Liu , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a strong privacy standard that has been adopted by popular software systems. The main idea is that each individual perturbs their own data locally, and only submits the resulting noisy version to a data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Fei Wei , Ergute Bao , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Bolin Ding

Anonymized data is highly valuable to both businesses and researchers. A large body of research has however shown the strong limits of the de-identification release-and-forget model, where data is anonymized and shared. This has led to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Andrea Gadotti , Florimond Houssiau , Luc Rocher , Benjamin Livshits , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye