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Independent algorithm audits hold the promise of bringing accountability to automated decision-making. However, third-party audits are often hindered by access restrictions, forcing auditors to rely on limited, low-quality data. To study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Juliette Zaccour , Reuben Binns , Luc Rocher

Data privacy is an important concern in machine learning, and is fundamentally at odds with the task of training useful learning models, which typically require the acquisition of large amounts of private user data. One possible way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

Machine learning models have recently enjoyed a significant increase in size and popularity. However, this growth has created concerns about dataset privacy. To counteract data leakage, various privacy frameworks guarantee that the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Coleman DuPlessie , Aidan Gao

Recently, it has been shown that Machine Learning models can leak sensitive information about their training data. This information leakage is exposed through membership and attribute inference attacks. Although many attack strategies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Ganesh Del Grosso , Georg Pichler , Catuscia Palamidessi , Pablo Piantanida

Generative machine learning models are being increasingly viewed as a way to share sensitive data between institutions. While there has been work on developing differentially private generative modeling approaches, these approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yixi Xu , Sumit Mukherjee , Xiyang Liu , Shruti Tople , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

Nonlinear aggregation is central to modern distributed systems, yet its privacy behavior is far less understood than that of linear aggregation. Unlike linear aggregation where mature mechanisms can often suppress information leakage,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Wenrui Yu , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Qiongxiu Li

Privacy preserving in machine learning is a crucial issue in industry informatics since data used for training in industries usually contain sensitive information. Existing differentially private machine learning algorithms have not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Ping Xiong , Huan Huo , Zahir Tari , Wanlei Zhou

We introduce Epsilon*, a new privacy metric for measuring the privacy risk of a single model instance prior to, during, or after deployment of privacy mitigation strategies. The metric requires only black-box access to model predictions,…

A membership-inference attack gets the output of a learning algorithm, and a target individual, and tries to determine whether this individual is a member of the training data or an independent sample from the same distribution. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mahdi Haghifam , Adam Smith , Jonathan Ullman

Performance modeling for large-scale data analytics workloads can improve the efficiency of cluster resource allocations and job scheduling. However, the performance of these workloads is influenced by numerous factors, such as job inputs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jonathan Will , Dominik Scheinert , Jan Bode , Cedric Kring , Seraphin Zunzer , Lauritz Thamsen

Large-scale pre-trained models are increasingly adapted to downstream tasks through a new paradigm called prompt learning. In contrast to fine-tuning, prompt learning does not update the pre-trained model's parameters. Instead, it only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yixin Wu , Rui Wen , Michael Backes , Pascal Berrang , Mathias Humbert , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

The right to be forgotten states that a data owner has the right to erase their data from an entity storing it. In the context of machine learning (ML), the right to be forgotten requires an ML model owner to remove the data owner's data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Min Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Michael Backes , Mathias Humbert , Yang Zhang

Federated learning algorithms are developed both for efficiency reasons and to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of personal and business data, respectively. Despite no data being shared explicitly, recent studies showed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Balázs Pejó , Gergely Biczók

When learning from sensitive data, care must be taken to ensure that training algorithms address privacy concerns. The canonical Private Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles, or PATE, computes output labels by aggregating the predictions of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jiaqi Wang , Roei Schuster , Ilia Shumailov , David Lie , Nicolas Papernot

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

Social media platforms curate access to information and opportunities, and so play a critical role in shaping public discourse today. The opaque nature of the algorithms these platforms use to curate content raises societal questions. Prior…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Basileal Imana , Aleksandra Korolova , John Heidemann

The performance cost of differential privacy has, for some applications, been shown to be higher for minority groups; fairness, conversely, has been shown to disproportionally compromise the privacy of members of such groups. Most work in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Victor Petrén Bach Hansen , Atula Tejaswi Neerkaje , Ramit Sawhney , Lucie Flek , Anders Søgaard

The widespread deployment of deep learning models in privacy-sensitive domains has amplified concerns regarding privacy risks, particularly those stemming from gradient leakage during training. Current privacy assessments primarily rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Hong Chen , Xin Shi , Qingyu Huang , Chen Hou

While significant research advances have been made in the field of deep reinforcement learning, there have been no concrete adversarial attack strategies in literature tailored for studying the vulnerability of deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Maziar Gomrokchi , Susan Amin , Hossein Aboutalebi , Alexander Wong , Doina Precup

In a biometric authentication or identification system, the matcher compares a stored and a fresh template to determine whether there is a match. This assessment is based on both a similarity score and a predefined threshold. For better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Axel Durbet , Kevin Thiry-Atighehchi , Dorine Chagnon , Paul-Marie Grollemund