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Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu

The growing complexity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to the adoption of Split Inference (SI), a collaborative paradigm that partitions computation between edge devices and the cloud to reduce latency and protect user privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yixiang Qiu , Yanhan Liu , Hongyao Yu , Hao Fang , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

Mobile edge devices see increased demands in deep neural networks (DNNs) inference while suffering from stringent constraints in computing resources. Split computing (SC) emerges as a popular approach to the issue by executing only initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Dong , Hongxu Yin , Jose M. Alvarez , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov , H. T. Kung

In the wake of the burgeoning expansion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) services, the computational demands inherent to these technologies frequently necessitate cloud-powered computational offloading, particularly for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shoki Ohta , Takayuki Nishio

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models across multiple clients while preserving their privacy. Rather than sharing raw data, federated clients transmit locally computed updates to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Carlo Mazzocca , Giuseppe Parrella , Mario Vento

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

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

Split inference (SI) partitions deep neural networks into distributed sub-models, enabling collaborative learning without directly sharing raw data. However, SI remains vulnerable to Data Reconstruction Attacks (DRAs), where adversaries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ruijun Deng , Zhihui Lu , Qiang Duan , Shijing Hu

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

In this paper, we introduce PrivDFS, a distributed feature-sharing framework for input-private inference in image classification. A single holistic intermediate representation in split inference gives diffusion-based Data Reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zihan Liu , Jiayi Wen , Junru Wu , Xuyang Zou , Shouhong Tan , Zhirun Zheng , Cheng Huang

With the emergence of smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as deep learning technologies have witnessed an increasing adoption. To support the requirements of such paradigm in terms of memory and computation, joint and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi , Mohsen Guizani

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving collaborative model training paradigm without sharing raw data. However, recent studies have revealed that private information can still be leaked through shared gradient…

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Model Inversion (MI) attacks aim to reconstruct privacy-sensitive training data from released models by utilizing output information, raising extensive concerns about the security of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yixiang Qiu , Hao Fang , Hongyao Yu , Bin Chen , MeiKang Qiu , Shu-Tao Xia

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging solution to the data scarcity problem for training deep learning models in hardware assurance. While FL is designed to enhance privacy by not sharing raw data, it remains vulnerable to Membership…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gijung Lee , Wavid Bowman , Olivia P. Dizon-Paradis , Reiner N. Dizon-Paradis , Ronald Wilson , Damon L. Woodard , Domenic Forte

Split inference (SI) enables users to access deep learning (DL) services without directly transmitting raw data. However, recent studies reveal that data reconstruction attacks (DRAs) can recover the original inputs from the smashed data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ruijun Deng , Zhihui Lu , Qiang Duan

Transfer learning (TL) has been demonstrated to improve DNN model performance when faced with a scarcity of training samples. However, the suitability of TL as a solution to reduce vulnerability of overfitted DNNs to privacy attacks is…

Collaborative inference has been a promising solution to enable resource-constrained edge devices to perform inference using state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs). In collaborative inference, the edge device first feeds the input to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shiwei Ding , Lan Zhang , Miao Pan , Xiaoyong Yuan

In the domain of cloud-based deep learning, the imperative for external computational resources coexists with acute privacy concerns, particularly identity leakage. To address this challenge, we introduce XNN and XNN-d, pioneering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kaixin Liu , Huixin Xiong , Bingyu Duan , Zexuan Cheng , Xinyu Zhou , Wanqian Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

The goal of Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) detection is to recognize infections with bot malware and is often done with help of Machine Learning approaches that classify non-resolving Domain Name System (DNS) traffic and are trained on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Benedikt Holmes , Arthur Drichel , Ulrike Meyer

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized various domains with their exceptional performance across numerous applications. However, Model Inversion (MI) attacks, which disclose private information about the training dataset by abusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Hao Fang , Yixiang Qiu , Hongyao Yu , Wenbo Yu , Jiawei Kong , Baoli Chong , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu
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