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Routine operational use of sensitive data is often governed by law and regulation. For instance, in the medical domain, there are various statues at the state and federal level that dictate who is permitted to work with patients' records…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Chao Yan , Haifeng Xu , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Bo Li , Daniel Fabbri , Bradley Malin

Opacity is a confidentiality property that holds when certain secret strings of a given system cannot be revealed to an outside observer under any system activity. Opacity violations stimulate the study of opacity enforcement strategies.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

Protecting the confidentiality of private data and using it for useful collaboration have long been at odds. Modern cryptography is bridging this gap through rapid growth in secure protocols such as multi-party computation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Maximilian Zinkus , Yinzhi Cao , Matthew Green

We study an information theoretic privacy mechanism design problem for two scenarios where the private data is either observable or hidden. In each scenario, we first consider bounded mutual information as privacy leakage criterion, then we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Large language models, trained on massive corpora, are prone to verbatim memorization of training data, creating significant privacy and copyright risks. While previous works have proposed various definitions for memorization, many exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Trung Cuong Dang , David Mohaisen

Most popular web browsers include "reader modes" that improve the user experience by removing un-useful page elements. Reader modes reformat the page to hide elements that are not related to the page's main content. Such page elements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Mohammad Ghasemisharif , Peter Snyder , Andrius Aucinas , Benjamin Livshits

Explainable systems expose information about why certain observed effects are happening to the agents interacting with them. We argue that this constitutes a positive flow of information that needs to be specified, verified, and balanced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Julian Siber

Many mobile apps are inaccessible, thereby excluding people from their potential benefits. Existing rule-based accessibility checkers aim to mitigate these failures by identifying errors early during development but are constrained in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Mingyuan Zhong , Ruolin Chen , Xia Chen , James Fogarty , Jacob O. Wobbrock

Existing methods for verifying access control policies require the policy to be complete and fully determined before verification can proceed, but in practice policies are developed iteratively, composed from independently maintained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alexander V. Gheorghiu

Unreadable code could be a breeding ground for errors. Thus, previous work defined approaches based on machine learning to automatically assess code readability that can warn developers when some code artifacts (e.g., classes) become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Antonio Vitale , Emanuela Guglielmi , Rocco Oliveto , Simone Scalabrino

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a promising tool for implementing fine-grained access control.To solve the matters of security in single authority, access policy public, not traceable of malicious user,we proposed a scheme of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Wei Zhang , Yi Wu , Zhishuog Zhang , Hu Xiong , Zhiguang Qin

Privacy auditing aims to empirically assess privacy leakage in machine learning models using membership inference attacks (MIAs), and to derive lower bounds on differential privacy (DP) parameters. Recent one-run auditing methods address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mathieu Dagréou , Aurélien Bellet

The objectives that Large Language Models (LLMs) implicitly optimize remain dangerously opaque, making trustworthy alignment and auditing a grand challenge. While Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) can infer reward functions from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Matthieu Bou , Nyal Patel , Arjun Jagota , Satyapriya Krishna , Sonali Parbhoo

Sequence models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and autoregressive image generators, have a tendency to memorize and inadvertently leak sensitive information. While this tendency has critical legal implications, existing tools are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Lorenzo Rossi , Michael Aerni , Jie Zhang , Florian Tramèr

Electronic healthcare records are vital for patient safety as they document conditions, plans, and procedures in both free text and medical codes. Language models have significantly enhanced the processing of such records, streamlining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Joakim Edin , Maria Maistro , Lars Maaløe , Lasse Borgholt , Jakob D. Havtorn , Tuukka Ruotsalo

Breached data refers to the unauthorized access, theft, or exposure of confidential or sensitive information. Breaches typically occur when malicious actors or unauthorized users breach secure systems or networks, resulting in compromised…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Mayank Gite

Dissipativity properties have proven to be very valuable for systems analysis and controller design. With the rising amount of available data, there has therefore been an increasing interest in determining dissipativity properties from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Anne Koch , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

Implicit authentication consists of a server authenticating a user based on the user's usage profile, instead of/in addition to relying on something the user explicitly knows (passwords, private keys, etc.). While implicit authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Qianhong Wu , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Algorithmic decision making is now widespread, ranging from health care allocation to more common actions such as recommendation or information ranking. The aim to audit these algorithms has grown alongside. In this paper, we focus on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Erwan Le Merrer , Ronan Pons , Gilles Trédan

The paper describes an approach to measuring convergence of an algorithm to its result in terms of an entropy-like function of partitions of its inputs of a given length. The goal is to look at the algorithmic data processing from the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Anatol Slissenko