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The unauthorized use of personal data in model training has emerged as a growing privacy threat. Unlearnable examples (UEs) address this issue by embedding imperceptible perturbations into benign examples to obstruct feature learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bo Wang , Jia Ni , Mengnan Zhao , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Safeguarding data from unauthorized exploitation is vital for privacy and security, especially in recent rampant research in security breach such as adversarial/membership attacks. To this end, \textit{unlearnable examples} (UEs) have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Wan Jiang , Yunfeng Diao , He Wang , Jianxin Sun , Meng Wang , Richang Hong

Unlearnable examples (UEs) aim to compromise model training by injecting imperceptible perturbations to clean samples. However, existing UE schemes exhibit limited robustness against advanced defenses due to their heuristic design or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xianlong Wang , Hangtao Zhang , Wenbo Pan , Ziqi Zhou , Changsong Jiang , Li Zeng , Xiaohua Jia

Deep neural networks are proven to be vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. Recently, a specific type of data poisoning attack known as availability attacks has led to the failure of data utilization for model learning by adding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yi Yu , Qichen Zheng , Siyuan Yang , Wenhan Yang , Jun Liu , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Kwok-Yan Lam , Alex Kot

The exploitation of publicly accessible data has led to escalating concerns regarding data privacy and intellectual property (IP) breaches in the age of artificial intelligence. To safeguard both data privacy and IP-related domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Derui Wang , Minhui Xue , Bo Li , Seyit Camtepe , Liming Zhu

There is a growing interest in developing unlearnable examples (UEs) against visual privacy leaks on the Internet. UEs are training samples added with invisible but unlearnable noise, which have been found can prevent unauthorized training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jiaming Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Qi Yi , Jitao Sang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Unlearnable examples (UEs) refer to training samples modified to be unlearnable to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). These examples are usually generated by adding error-minimizing noises that can fool a DNN model into believing that there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yujing Jiang , Xingjun Ma , Sarah Monazam Erfani , James Bailey

The training of contemporary deep learning models heavily relies on publicly available data, posing a risk of unauthorized access to online data and raising concerns about data privacy. Current approaches to creating unlearnable data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jingwen Ye , Xinchao Wang

The recent success of machine learning models, especially large-scale classifiers and language models, relies heavily on training with massive data. These data are often collected from online sources. This raises serious concerns about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ruihan Zhang , Jun Sun , Ee-Peng Lim , Peixin Zhang

Unlearnable examples are proposed to prevent third parties from exploiting unauthorized data, which generates unlearnable examples by adding imperceptible perturbations to public publishing data. These unlearnable examples proficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pucheng Dang , Xing Hu , Kaidi Xu , Jinhao Duan , Di Huang , Husheng Han , Rui Zhang , Zidong Du

High-quality data plays an indispensable role in the era of large models, but the use of unauthorized data for model training greatly damages the interests of data owners. To overcome this threat, several unlearnable methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kai Ye , Liangcai Su , Chenxiong Qian

Large-scale pre-training frameworks like CLIP have revolutionized multimodal learning, but their reliance on web-scraped datasets, frequently containing private user data, raises serious concerns about misuse. Unlearnable Examples (UEs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Tianwei Song , Ye Sun , Yifeng Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Neural networks are often overconfident about their predictions, which undermines their reliability and trustworthiness. In this work, we present a novel technique, named Error-Driven Uncertainty Aware Training (EUAT), which aims to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Pedro Mendes , Paolo Romano , David Garlan

Recent advancements in AI models are structured to retain user interactions, which could inadvertently include sensitive healthcare data. In the healthcare field, particularly when radiologists use AI-driven diagnostic tools hosted on…

Unlearnable examples (UEs) seek to maximize testing error by making subtle modifications to training examples that are correctly labeled. Defenses against these poisoning attacks can be categorized based on whether specific interventions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Adversarial training (AT) is widely considered as the most promising strategy to defend against adversarial attacks and has drawn increasing interest from researchers. However, the existing AT methods still suffer from two challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang , Yanchao Sun , Philip S. Yu

In weakly supervised learning, unbiased risk estimator(URE) is a powerful tool for training classifiers when training and test data are drawn from different distributions. Nevertheless, UREs lead to overfitting in many problem settings when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yu-Ting Chou , Gang Niu , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Masashi Sugiyama

Unlearnable examples (UE) have emerged as a practical mechanism to prevent unauthorized model training on private vision data, while extending this protection to tabular data is nontrivial. Tabular data in finance and healthcare is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jiaming He , Fuming Luo , Hongwei Li , Wenbo Jiang , Wenshu Fan , Zhenbo Shi , Xudong Jiang , Yi Yu

Recent work has shown that imperceptible perturbations can be applied to craft unlearnable examples (ULEs), i.e. images whose content cannot be used to improve a classifier during training. In this paper, we reveal the road that researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zhuoran Liu , Zhengyu Zhao , Alex Kolmus , Tijn Berns , Twan van Laarhoven , Tom Heskes , Martha Larson

Unlearnable example attacks are data poisoning techniques that can be used to safeguard public data against unauthorized use for training deep learning models. These methods add stealthy perturbations to the original image, thereby making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Tianrui Qin , Xitong Gao , Juanjuan Zhao , Kejiang Ye , Cheng-Zhong Xu
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