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We introduce Split Unlearning, a novel machine unlearning technology designed for Split Learning (SL), enabling the first-ever implementation of Sharded, Isolated, Sliced, and Aggregated (SISA) unlearning in SL frameworks. Particularly, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guangsheng Yu , Yanna Jiang , Qin Wang , Xu Wang , Baihe Ma , Caijun Sun , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu

Reconstruction attacks against federated learning (FL) aim to reconstruct users' samples through users' uploaded gradients. Local differential privacy (LDP) is regarded as an effective defense against various attacks, including sample…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Shujun Li , Ximeng Liu , Siqi Ma , Yulong Shen

Split Learning (SL) is a new collaborative learning technique that allows participants, e.g. a client and a server, to train machine learning models without the client sharing raw data. In this setting, the client initially applies its part…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Tanveer Khan , Khoa Nguyen , Antonis Michalas

In recent years, it has been claimed that releasing accurate statistical information on a database is likely to allow its complete reconstruction. Differential privacy has been suggested as the appropriate methodology to prevent these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Krishnamurty Muralidhar , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Split Learning (SL) has emerged as a practical and efficient alternative to traditional federated learning. While previous attempts to attack SL have often relied on overly strong assumptions or targeted easily exploitable models, we seek…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaochen Zhu , Xinjian Luo , Yuncheng Wu , Yangfan Jiang , Xiaokui Xiao , Beng Chin Ooi

The effectiveness of Data Injections Attacks (DIAs) critically depends on the completeness of the system information accessible to adversaries. This relationship positions information incompleteness enhancement as a vital defense strategy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Ke Sun , Jingyi Yan , Zhenglin Li , Shaorong Xie

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have become the backbone technology of several ubiquitous applications, their deployment in resource-constrained machines, e.g., Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is still challenging. To satisfy the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi , Mohsen Guizani

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure channels introduces privacy risks. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Weixuan Chen , Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Dusit Niyato

The ubiquitous use of face recognition has sparked increasing privacy concerns, as unauthorized access to sensitive face images could compromise the information of individuals. This paper presents an in-depth study of the privacy protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yuxi Mi , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Minyi Zhao , Jiaxiang Wu , Xingkun Xu , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

Everyday, large amounts of sensitive data is distributed across mobile phones, wearable devices, and other sensors. Traditionally, these enormous datasets have been processed on a single system, with complex models being trained to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zongshun Zhang , Andrea Pinto , Valeria Turina , Flavio Esposito , Ibrahim Matta

Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent studies indicate that private training data can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum

A wide variety of deep neural applications increasingly rely on the cloud to perform their compute-heavy inference. This common practice requires sending private and privileged data over the network to remote servers, exposing it to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Mohammadkazem Taram , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Dean Tullsen , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

In this paper, we measure the privacy leakage via studying whether graph representations can be inverted to recover the graph used to generate them via graph reconstruction attack (GRA). We propose a GRA that recovers a graph's adjacency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huixin Zhan , Kun Zhang , Keyi Lu , Victor S. Sheng

Collaborative inference (CI) improves computational efficiency for edge devices by transmitting intermediate features to cloud models. However, this process inevitably exposes feature representations to model inversion attacks (MIAs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Rongke Liu , Youwen Zhu , Dong Wang , Gaoning Pan , Xingyu He , Weizhi Meng

While deep learning models have shown significant performance across various domains, their deployment needs extensive resources and advanced computing infrastructure. As a solution, Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has emerged,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yi Xie , Jie Zhang , Shiqian Zhao , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofeng Chen

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple clients without the need to expose raw data. Its ability to safeguard privacy, at the heart of FL, has recently been a hot-button debate topic. To elaborate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Fuyi Wang , Cen Chen , Jianying Zhou

Crowdsourced data used in machine learning services might carry sensitive information about attributes that users do not want to share. Various methods have been proposed to minimize the potential information leakage of sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Han Zhao , Jianfeng Chi , Yuan Tian , Geoffrey J. Gordon

In large-scale statistical learning, data collection and model fitting are moving increasingly toward peripheral devices---phones, watches, fitness trackers---away from centralized data collection. Concomitant with this rise in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-04 Abhishek Bhowmick , John Duchi , Julien Freudiger , Gaurav Kapoor , Ryan Rogers

We investigate the security of Split Learning -- a novel collaborative machine learning framework that enables peak performance by requiring minimal resources consumption. In the present paper, we expose vulnerabilities of the protocol and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Dario Pasquini , Giuseppe Ateniese , Massimo Bernaschi

Text embeddings enable numerous NLP applications but face severe privacy risks from embedding inversion attacks, which can expose sensitive attributes or reconstruct raw text. Existing differential privacy defenses assume uniform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu-Che Tsai , Hsiang Hsiao , Kuan-Yu Chen , Shou-De Lin