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Machine learning models trained on vast amounts of real or synthetic data often achieve outstanding predictive performance across various domains. However, this utility comes with increasing concerns about privacy, as the training data may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Binhao Ma , Tianhang Zheng , Hongsheng Hu , Di Wang , Shuo Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Understanding when and how much a model gradient leaks information about the training sample is an important question in privacy. In this paper, we present a surprising result: even without training or memorizing the data, we can fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zihan Wang , Jason D. Lee , Qi Lei

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models has raised significant privacy and security concerns, particularly regarding the generation of copyrighted or harmful images. In response, concept erasure (defense) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Alex D. Richardson , Kaicheng Zhang , Lucas Beerens , Dongdong Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant promise for improving breast cancer diagnosis in medical imaging. However, these models are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks--small, imperceptible changes that can mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yasamin Medghalchi , Moein Heidari , Clayton Allard , Leonid Sigal , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Data reconstruction attacks on machine learning models pose a substantial threat to privacy, potentially leaking sensitive information. Although defending against such attacks using differential privacy (DP) provides theoretical guarantees,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kristian Schwethelm , Johannes Kaiser , Moritz Knolle , Sarah Lockfisch , Daniel Rueckert , Alexander Ziller

Modern deep learning requires large volumes of data, which could contain sensitive or private information that cannot be leaked. Recent work has shown for homogeneous neural networks a large portion of this training data could be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Noel Loo , Ramin Hasani , Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus

Recently, Carlini et al. demonstrated the widely used model Stable Diffusion can regurgitate real training samples, which is troublesome from a copyright perspective. In this work, we provide an efficient extraction attack on par with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ryan Webster

Adding perturbations to images can mislead classification models to produce incorrect results. Recently, researchers exploited adversarial perturbations to protect image privacy from retrieval by intelligent models. However, adding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Li Chen , Shaowei Zhu , Zhaoxia Yin

Data reconstruction attacks on trained neural networks aim to recover the data on which the network has been trained and pose a significant threat to privacy, especially if the training dataset contains sensitive information. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Edward Tansley , Roy Makhlouf , Estelle Massart , Coralia Cartis

Large scale text-to-image generation models can memorize and reproduce their training dataset. Since the training dataset often contains copyrighted material, reproduction of training dataset poses a copyright infringement risk, which could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Neeraj Sarna , Yuanyuan Li , Michael von Gablenz

Despite the notable advancements and versatility of multi-modal diffusion models, such as text-to-image models, their susceptibility to adversarial inputs remains underexplored. Contrary to expectations, our investigations reveal that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Shaokang Wang

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models that produce images and other content from user prompts, but they are computationally intensive. To mitigate this cost, recent academic and industry work has adopted approximate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Desen Sun , Shuncheng Jie , Sihang Liu

Image generation models (IGMs), while capable of producing impressive and creative content, often memorize a wide range of undesirable concepts from their training data, leading to the reproduction of unsafe content such as NSFW imagery and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Renyang Liu , Kangjie Chen , Han Qiu , Jie Zhang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Tianwei Zhang , See-Kiong Ng

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in image generation, yet recent studies reveal their vulnerability to backdoor attacks, where adversaries manipulate outputs via covert triggers embedded in inputs. Existing defenses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lei Zhang , Yu Pan , Bingrong Dai , Lin Wang

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (Graph RAG) is increasingly deployed to support LLM applications by augmenting user queries with structured knowledge retrieved from a knowledge graph. While Graph RAG improves relational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Minkyoo Song , Jaehan Kim , Myungchul Kang , Hanna Kim , Seungwon Shin , Sooel Son

Graph generative diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for generating complex graph structures, effectively capturing intricate dependencies and relationships within graph data. However, the privacy risks associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiuling Wang , Xin Huang , Guibo Luo , Jianliang Xu

Text-to-image diffusion models rely on massive, web-scale datasets. Training them from scratch is computationally expensive, and as a result, developers often prefer to make incremental updates to existing models. These updates often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Vinith M. Suriyakumar , Rohan Alur , Ayush Sekhari , Manish Raghavan , Ashia C. Wilson

Federated learning is a decentralized learning paradigm introduced to preserve privacy of client data. Despite this, prior work has shown that an attacker at the server can still reconstruct the private training data using only the client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Joshua C. Zhao , Ahaan Dabholkar , Atul Sharma , Saurabh Bagchi

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced critical security challenges, where adversarial actors can manipulate input prompts to cause significant harm and circumvent safety alignments. These prompt-based attacks…