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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a leading paradigm for decentralized, privacy preserving machine learning training. However, recent research on gradient inversion attacks (GIAs) have shown that gradient updates in FL can leak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Yichuan Shi , Olivera Kotevska , Viktor Reshniak , Abhishek Singh , Ramesh Raskar

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on massive web-scale corpora, raising growing concerns about privacy and copyright. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a given example was used during training. Existing LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ravi Ranjan , Utkarsh Grover , Xiaomin Lin , Agoritsa Polyzou

Variational Autoencoders are one of the most commonly used generative models, particularly for image data. A prominent difficulty in training VAEs is data that is supported on a lower-dimensional manifold. Recent work by Dai and Wipf (2020)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Frederic Koehler , Viraj Mehta , Chenghui Zhou , Andrej Risteski

Gradient inversion attacks on federated learning systems reconstruct client training data from exchanged gradient information. To defend against such attacks, a variety of defense mechanisms were proposed. However, they usually lead to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Daniel Scheliga , Patrick Mäder , Marco Seeland

Perceptual estimates exhibit a reversal in bias depending on uncertainty: they shift toward prior expectations under high stimulus noise, but away from them when sensory noise dominates. The normative framework of a Bayesian observer model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-16 Hyun-Jun Jeon , Hansol Choi , Oh-Sang Kwon

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have emerged as a principled framework for auditing the privacy of synthetic data generated by tabular generative models, where many diverse methods have been proposed that each exploit different privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Joshua Ward , Yuxuan Yang , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

Image AutoRegressive generation has emerged as a new powerful paradigm with image autoregressive models (IARs) matching state-of-the-art diffusion models (DMs) in image quality (FID: 1.48 vs. 1.58) while allowing for a higher generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Antoni Kowalczuk , Jan Dubiński , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic

Label smoothing -- using softened labels instead of hard ones -- is a widely adopted regularization method for deep learning, showing diverse benefits such as enhanced generalization and calibration. Its implications for preserving model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Trained generative models have shown remarkable performance as priors for inverse problems in imaging -- for example, Generative Adversarial Network priors permit recovery of test images from 5-10x fewer measurements than sparsity priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Muhammad Asim , Mara Daniels , Oscar Leong , Ali Ahmed , Paul Hand

The primary promise of decentralized learning is to allow users to engage in the training of machine learning models in a collaborative manner while keeping their data on their premises and without relying on any central entity. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ousmane Touat , Jezekael Brunon , Yacine Belal , Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar

This work provides a computable, direct, and mathematically rigorous approximation to the differential geometry of class manifolds for high-dimensional data, along with nonlinear projections from input space onto these class manifolds. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Aaron Mahler , Tyrus Berry , Tom Stephens , Harbir Antil , Michael Merritt , Jeanie Schreiber , Ioannis Kevrekidis

The high cost of model training makes it increasingly desirable to develop techniques for unlearning. These techniques seek to remove the influence of a training example without having to retrain the model from scratch. Intuitively, once a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jamie Hayes , Ilia Shumailov , Eleni Triantafillou , Amr Khalifa , Nicolas Papernot

Generative models have demonstrated revolutionary success in various visual creation tasks, but in the meantime, they have been exposed to the threat of leaking private information of their training data. Several membership inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Minxing Zhang , Ning Yu , Rui Wen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

In membership inference attacks (MIAs), an adversary observes the predictions of a model to determine whether a sample is part of the model's training data. Existing MIA defenses conceal the presence of a target sample through strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Ismat Jarin , Birhanu Eshete

We propose a new type of attack for finding adversarial examples for image classifiers. Our method exploits spanners, i.e. deep neural networks whose input space is low-dimensional and whose output range approximates the set of images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Ajil Jalal , Andrew Ilyas , Constantinos Daskalakis , Alexandros G. Dimakis

In recent years there has been increased interest in understanding the interplay between deep generative models (DGMs) and the manifold hypothesis. Research in this area focuses on understanding the reasons why commonly-used DGMs succeed or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Brendan Leigh Ross , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Anthony L. Caterini , Jesse C. Cresswell

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative model training without sharing private data. However, privacy concerns regarding information exchanged during FL have received significant research attention.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Bowen Li , Hanlin Gu , Ruoxin Chen , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Na Ruan , Xueming Si , Lixin Fan

Distinguishing between real and AI-generated images, commonly referred to as 'image detection', presents a timely and significant challenge. Despite extensive research in the (semi-)supervised regime, zero-shot and few-shot solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jonathan Brokman , Amit Giloni , Omer Hofman , Roman Vainshtein , Hisashi Kojima , Guy Gilboa

To achieve near-zero training error in a classification problem, the layers of a feed-forward network have to disentangle the manifolds of data points with different labels, to facilitate the discrimination. However, excessive class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Simone Ciceri , Lorenzo Cassani , Matteo Osella , Pietro Rotondo , Filippo Valle , Marco Gherardi

Previous studies have developed fairness methods for biased models that exhibit discriminatory behaviors towards specific subgroups. While these models have shown promise in achieving fair predictions, recent research has identified their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Huan Tian , Guangsheng Zhang , Bo Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Ming Ding , Wanlei Zhou