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Goldwasser et al. (2021) recently proposed the setting of PAC verification, where a hypothesis (machine learning model) that purportedly satisfies the agnostic PAC learning objective is verified using an interactive proof. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-06 Saachi Mutreja , Jonathan Shafer

We investigate the problem of establishing finite-time probabilistic safety guarantees for discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems subject to unknown disturbance distributions, using barrier certificate methods. Our approach develops a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Taoran Wu , Dominik Wagner , C. -H. Luke Ong , Bai Xue

Fair machine learning is a thriving and vibrant research topic. In this paper, we propose Fairness as a Service (FaaS), a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving protocol to computes and verify the fairness of any machine learning (ML)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Ehsan Toreini , Maryam Mehrnezhad , Aad van Moorsel

Differential Privacy (DP) is a rigorous privacy standard widely adopted in data analysis and machine learning. However, its guarantees rely on correctly introducing randomized noise--an assumption that may not hold if the implementation is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hyukjun Kwon , Chenglin Fan

Public blockchains impose an inherent tension between regulatory compliance and user privacy. Existing on-chain identity solutions require centralized KYC attestors, specialized hardware, or Decentralized Identifier (DID) frameworks needing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yeongju Bak

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about sophisticated models capable of various tasks ranging from image recognition to natural language processing. As these models continue to grow in complexity, ensuring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Nishant Jagannath , Christopher Wong , Braden Mcgrath , Md Farhad Hossain , Asuquo A. Okon , Abbas Jamalipour , Kumudu S. Munasinghe

This paper addresses privacy protection in decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) using Confidential Computing (CC) within the Atoma Network, a decentralized AI platform designed for the Web3 domain. Decentralized AI distributes AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Dayeol Lee , Jorge António , Hisham Khan

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) facilitates privacy-preserving computation between multiple parties without leaking private information. While most secure deep learning techniques utilize MPC operations to achieve feasible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ke Lin , Yasir Glani , Ping Luo

Machine learning (ML) systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains where reliability is paramount. This thesis investigates how uncertainty estimation can enhance the safety and trustworthiness of ML, focusing on selective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Stephan Rabanser

Auditing the semantic properties of proprietary data creates a fundamental tension: verification requires transparent access, while proprietary rights demand confidentiality. While Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) ensure privacy, they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Antony Rowstron

Mounting privacy legislation calls for the preservation of privacy in speech technology, though solutions are gravely lacking. While evaluation campaigns are long-proven tools to drive progress, the need to consider a privacy adversary…

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

A zero-knowledge proximity proof certifies geometric nearness but carries no commitment to an application context. In stateful geo-content systems, where drops can share coordinates, policies evolve, and content has persistent identity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yoshiyuki Ootani

Privacy and security challenges in Machine Learning (ML) have become increasingly severe, along with ML's pervasive development and the recent demonstration of large attack surfaces. As a mature system-oriented approach, Confidential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fan Mo , Zahra Tarkhani , Hamed Haddadi

Machine Learning models thrive on vast datasets, continuously adapting to provide accurate predictions and recommendations. However, in an era dominated by privacy concerns, Machine Unlearning emerges as a transformative approach, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Robert Dilworth

Zero-knowledge proofs (zk-Proofs) are communication protocols by which a prover can demonstrate to a verifier that it possesses a solution to a given public problem without revealing the content of the solution. Arbitrary computations can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Armando Cruz

We introduce PrivPy, a practical privacy-preserving collaborative computation framework, especially optimized for machine learning tasks. PrivPy provides an easy-to-use and highly compatible Python programming front-end which supports…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yi Li , Yitao Duan , Yu Yu , Shuoyao Zhao , Wei Xu

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) systems have surged attention and held a fundamental role in contemporary cryptography. Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (zk-SNARK) protocols dominate the ZKP usage, implemented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qizhe Yang , Boxuan Liang , Hao Chen , Guoqiang Li

Federated knowledge discovery and data mining are challenged to assess the trustworthiness of data originating from autonomous sources while protecting confidentiality and privacy. Truth-finding algorithms help corroborate data from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Angelo Saadeh , Pierre Senellart , Stéphane Bressan

Data privacy is critical in instilling trust and empowering the societal pacts of modern technology-driven democracies. Unfortunately, it is under continuous attack by overreaching or outright oppressive governments, including some of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Chen Chen , Xiao Liang , Bogdan Carbunar , Radu Sion