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In the realm of power systems, the increasing involvement of residential users in load forecasting applications has heightened concerns about data privacy. Specifically, the load data can inadvertently reveal the daily routines of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yi Dong , Yingjie Wang , Mariana Gama , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Geert Deconinck , Xiaowei Huang

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized model training framework that aims to merge isolated data islands while maintaining data privacy. However, recent studies have revealed that Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based attacks can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xinjian Luo , Xianglong Zhang

In a vertical federated learning (VFL) scenario where features and model are split into different parties, communications of sample-specific updates are required for correct gradient calculations but can be used to deduce important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yang Liu , Tianyuan Zou , Yan Kang , Wenhan Liu , Yuanqin He , Zhihao Yi , Qiang Yang

Inferring the latent variable generating a given test sample is a challenging problem in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this paper, we propose InvGAN - a novel framework for solving the inference problem in GANs, which involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Wei-An Lin , Yogesh Balaji , Pouya Samangouei , Rama Chellappa

Graph deep learning models, such as graph convolutional networks (GCN) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. Similar to other types of deep models, graph deep learning models often suffer from adversarial attacks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Huijun Wu , Chen Wang , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Andrew Docherty , Kai Lu , Liming Zhu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made releasing of synthetic images a viable approach to share data without releasing the original dataset. It has been shown that such synthetic data can be used for a variety of downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sumit Mukherjee , Yixi Xu , Anusua Trivedi , Juan Lavista Ferres

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has revolutionised collaborative machine learning by enabling privacy-preserving model training across multiple parties. However, it remains vulnerable to information leakage during intermediate computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achmad Ginanjar , Xue Li , Priyanka Singh , Wen Hua

Training and fine-tuning large-scale language models largely benefit from collaborative learning, but the approach has been proven vulnerable to gradient inversion attacks (GIAs), which allow adversaries to reconstruct private training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xinguo Feng , Zhongkui Ma , Zihan Wang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Guangdong Bai

Adversarial attacks expose a fundamental vulnerability in modern deep vision models by exploiting their dependence on dense, pixel-level representations that are highly sensitive to imperceptible perturbations. Traditional defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jingjie He , Weijie Liang , Zihan Shan , Matthew Caesar

When algorithmic decisions depend on data distributed across institutions, how can we ensure that an individual's outcome does not change arbitrarily based on a protected attribute? We study this question in vertical federated learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dawood Wasif , Chandan K. Reddy , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho

Federated learning enables multiple participants to collaboratively train a model without aggregating the training data. Although the training data are kept within each participant and the local gradients can be securely synthesized, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Yanjun Zhang , Guangdong Bai , Xue Li , Surya Nepal , Ryan K L Ko

Deep Gradient Leakage (DGL) is a highly effective attack that recovers private training images from gradient vectors. This attack casts significant privacy challenges on distributed learning from clients with sensitive data, where clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Haobo Zhang , Junyuan Hong , Yuyang Deng , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Jiayu Zhou

Federated Learning(FL), in theory, preserves privacy of individual clients' data while producing quality machine learning models. However, attacks such as Deep Leakage from Gradients(DLG) severely question the practicality of FL. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Joon Kim , Sejin Park

Though vertical federated learning (VFL) is generally considered to be privacy-preserving, recent studies have shown that VFL system is vulnerable to label inference attacks originating from various attack surfaces. Among these attacks, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juntao Tan , Lan Zhang , Zhonghao Hu , Kai Yang , Peng Ran , Bo Li

Distributed machine learning has been widely used in recent years to tackle the large and complex dataset problem. Therewith, the security of distributed learning has also drawn increasing attentions from both academia and industry. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Zihao Zhao , Mengen Luo , Wenbo Ding

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to protect sensitive data during the training of machine learning models, but its privacy guarantee often comes at a large cost of model performance due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Hao Liang , Wanrong Zhang , Xinlei He , Kaishun Wu , Hong Xing

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables different parties to train a model together for high quality and strong privacy protection. In this scenario, individual participants may get compromised and perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Kaiyuan Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shengwei An , Yingqi Liu , Shiwei Feng , Guangyu Shen , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

The emergence of vertical federated learning (VFL) has stimulated concerns about the imperfection in privacy protection, as shared feature embeddings may reveal sensitive information under privacy attacks. This paper studies the delicate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yuxi Mi , Hongquan Liu , Yewei Xia , Yiheng Sun , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

This paper considers the scenario that multiple data owners wish to apply a machine learning method over the combined dataset of all owners to obtain the best possible learning output but do not want to share the local datasets owing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Le Trieu Phong , Tran Thi Phuong

Adversarial attacks present a significant security risk to image recognition tasks. Defending against these attacks in a real-life setting can be compared to the way antivirus software works, with a key consideration being how well the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haibo Zhang , Zhihua Yao , Kouichi Sakurai