English
Related papers

Related papers: Defending Diffusion Models Against Membership Infe…

200 papers

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in image generation, but their increasing deployment raises serious concerns about privacy. In particular, fine-tuned models are highly vulnerable, as they are often fine-tuned on small and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Puwei Lian , Yujun Cai , Songze Li , Bingkun Bao

Deep generative models have gained much attention given their ability to generate data for applications as varied as healthcare to financial technology to surveillance, and many more - the most popular models being generative adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Hui Sun , Tianqing Zhu , Zhiqiu Zhang , Dawei Jin. Ping Xiong , Wanlei Zhou

The increasing use of generative models such as diffusion models for synthetic data augmentation has greatly reduced the cost of data collection and labeling in downstream perception tasks. However, this new data source paradigm may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Junchi Lu , Xinke Li , Yuheng Liu , Qi Alfred Chen

Text-to-image generation models have recently attracted unprecedented attention as they unlatch imaginative applications in all areas of life. However, developing such models requires huge amounts of data that might contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

In contemporary edge computing systems, decentralized edge nodes aggregate unprocessed data and facilitate data analytics to uphold low transmission latency and real-time data processing capabilities. Recently, these edge nodes have evolved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Kongyang Chen , Yi Lin , Hui Luo , Bing Mi , Yatie Xiao , Chao Ma , Jorge Sá Silva

Diffusion models have begun to overshadow GANs and other generative models in industrial applications due to their superior image generation performance. The complex architecture of these models furnishes an extensive array of attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yan Pang , Tianhao Wang , Xuhui Kang , Mengdi Huai , Yang Zhang

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

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

In recent years, deep neural network approaches have been widely adopted for machine learning tasks, including classification. However, they were shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations: carefully crafted small perturbations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Pouya Samangouei , Maya Kabkab , Rama Chellappa

Deep 3D point cloud models are sensitive to adversarial attacks, which poses threats to safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Robust training and defend-by-denoising are typical strategies for defending adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Kui Zhang , Hang Zhou , Jie Zhang , Qidong Huang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

A large body of research has shown that machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference (MI) attacks that violate the privacy of the participants in the training data. Most MI research focuses on the case of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Matthew Jagielski , Stanley Wu , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman , Roxana Geambasu

Diffusion models are becoming defector generative models, which generate exceptionally high-resolution image data. Training effective diffusion models require massive real data, which is privately owned by distributed parties. Each data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jiyue Huang , Chi Hong , Lydia Y. Chen , Stefanie Roos

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable for representation learning. Here, we propose InfoDiffusion, an algorithm that augments diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yingheng Wang , Yair Schiff , Aaron Gokaslan , Weishen Pan , Fei Wang , Christopher De Sa , Volodymyr Kuleshov

This study investigates the privacy risks associated with diffusion-based synthetic tabular data generation methods, focusing on their susceptibility to Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs). We examine two recent models, TabDDPM and TabSyn,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Peini Cheng , Amir Bahmani

Diffusion-based text-to-image models have shown immense potential for various image-related tasks. However, despite their prominence and popularity, customizing these models using unauthorized data also brings serious privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sen Peng , Jijia Yang , Mingyue Wang , Jianfei He , Xiaohua Jia

Thanks to their remarkable denoising capabilities, diffusion models are increasingly being employed as defensive tools to reinforce the security of other models, notably in purifying adversarial examples and certifying adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Bochuan Cao , Jinghui Chen , Fenglong Ma , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

The usage of deep learning is being escalated in many applications. Due to its outstanding performance, it is being used in a variety of security and privacy-sensitive areas in addition to conventional applications. One of the key aspects…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zhaoxi Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xufei Zheng , Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Shengshan Hu

Machine learning models are prone to memorizing sensitive data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks in which an adversary aims to infer whether an input sample was used to train the model. Over the past few years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xinlei He , Zheng Li , Weilin Xu , Cory Cornelius , Yang Zhang

Membership inference attacks seek to infer membership of individual training instances of a model to which an adversary has black-box access through a machine learning-as-a-service API. In providing an in-depth characterization of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Lei Yu , Wenqi Wei

Recent developments in adversarial machine learning have highlighted the importance of building robust AI systems to protect against increasingly sophisticated attacks. While frameworks like AI Guardian are designed to defend against these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Trinath Sai Subhash Reddy Pittala , Uma Maheswara Rao Meleti , Geethakrishna Puligundla