Deep learning is increasingly used as a building block of security systems. Unfortunately, neural networks are hard to interpret and typically opaque to the practitioner. The machine learning community has started to address this problem by developing methods for explaining the predictions of neural networks. While sev…
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Securely share encrypted data for machine learning training.
problem Securely sharing encrypted data for machine learning training without revealing the data.
method Rotation based method using flow model.
result Theoretical justification and demonstration of effectiveness in different scenarios.
To accommodate heterogeneous tasks in Internet of Things (IoT), a new communication and computing paradigm termed mobile edge computing emerges that extends computing services from the cloud to edge, but at the same time exposes new challenges on security. The present paper studies online security-aware edge computing …
Deploying Convolutional Networks on Untrusted Platforms Using 2D Holographic Reduced Representationscs.LG
Secure neural network inference on untrusted platforms using holographic reduced representations.
problem Secure neural network inference on untrusted platforms.
method Connectionist Symbolic Pseudo Secrets using Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR).
result Empirical robustness to attack under various threat models.
As neural networks revolutionize many applications, significant privacy conflicts between model users and providers emerge. The cryptography community developed a variety of techniques for secure computation to address such privacy issues. As generic techniques for secure computation are typically prohibitively ineffec…
Security for Machine Learning-based Systems: Attacks and Challenges during Training and Inferencecs.LG
The exponential increase in dependencies between the cyber and physical world leads to an enormous amount of data which must be efficiently processed and stored. Therefore, computing paradigms are evolving towards machine learning (ML)-based systems because of their ability to efficiently and accurately process the eno…
We develop a secure aggregation protocol for federated learning that reduces communication and computation costs.
problem Expensive communication and privacy concerns in federated learning.
method Adapting compression-based federated techniques to additive secret sharing.
result Our protocol achieves high accuracy with low communication costs and is more efficient than prior work.
Secure Multiparty Computation protects data privacy in Symbolic Regression.
problem Data privacy in Symbolic Regression models.
method Secure Multiparty Computation for vertical partitioning.
result Comparable performance to centralized model while preserving privacy.
SLIP secures LLMs on edge devices by splitting computation and protecting sensitive parts.
problem Protecting LLMs on edge devices from theft and unauthorized use.
method SLIP uses matrix decomposition to split model computation between secure and vulnerable resources, ensuring zero accuracy degradation and minimal latency.
result SLIP is the first practical, secure hybrid protocol for protecting LLMs on edge devices.
FastSecAgg improves federated learning security and efficiency.
problem Privacy leakage in federated learning due to model parameter sharing.
method Introduces FastSecAgg, a secure aggregation protocol with FFT-based multi-secret sharing (FastShare).
result Efficient in computation and communication, robust to client dropouts.
Secure XGB for privacy-preserving machine learning in federated learning.
problem Privacy-preserving machine learning in federated learning with practical gradient tree boosting models.
method Secure multi-party computation, distributed model storage, secure permutation protocols.
result Our XGB models provide competitive accuracy and practical performance.
Securely trains neural networks remotely with deep learning's flaws.
problem Secure and efficient training of neural networks over unsecured channels.
method Leverages deep learning's weaknesses for secure training.
result Efficient and secure training of neural networks remotely.
QFNN-FFD uses quantum computing and FL for secure financial fraud detection.
problem Financial fraud detection in the financial sector.
method Quantum Federated Neural Network (QFNN-FFD) combining QML and FL.
result Achieves precision rates above 95% and robustness against noise.
Securely trains regression models with secret sharing for data collaboration.
problem Balancing data collaboration for technological improvements with security concerns.
method Secret sharing scheme for scalable and efficient secure multiparty training.
result Scalable and efficient protocols for training linear and logistic regression models.
Paper proposes a new method to compute cryptocurrency prices securely.
problem Accurate price feeds without a third party.
method Algorithmic method to compute prices from potentially dishonest sources.
result The proposed method can report accurate prices even from dishonest sources.
Post-Quantum Secure Federated DeFi for Inclusive Banking
problem Financial systems and DeFi ecosystems are vulnerable to quantum computing threats.
method Post-Quantum Secure Federated DeFi framework using lattice-based FHE.
result End-to-end homomorphic computation enables inter-bank collaboration.
Thanks to the advances in machine learning, data-driven analysis tools have become valuable solutions for various applications. However, there still remain essential challenges to develop effective data-driven methods because of the need to acquire a large amount of data and to have sufficient computing power to handle…
The study calculates securities lending haircuts and indemnification costs.
problem Managing borrower default risk in securities markets.
method Repo haircut model applied to securities lending transactions; quantifies haircuts and indemnification costs.
result Computed borrower-dependent haircuts and indemnification costs for US Treasuries and equities.
We introduce CheckNet, a method for secure inference with deep neural networks on untrusted devices. CheckNet is like a checksum for neural network inference: it verifies the integrity of the inference computation performed by untrusted devices to 1) ensure the inference has actually been performed, and 2) ensure the i…
Secure federated learning reduces privacy risks with differential privacy and secure multiparty computation.
problem Reverse engineering of private client data from federated learning model parameters.
method Combining differential privacy and secure multiparty computation.
result Improved accuracy of shared models without significant privacy loss.
Paper proposes scalable privacy-preserving DNN for industrial applications.
problem Data isolation and scalability issues in deep neural networks.
method Split computation graph into private and neutral server parts; use cryptographic techniques for private data.
result Demonstrates practicality of the proposed scalable privacy-preserving DNN.
Paper proposes efficient privacy-preserving matrix encryption for secure collaborative learning against malicious adversaries.
problem Secure collaborative learning of sensitive data across different agencies is challenging with malicious adversaries.
method The paper applies matrix encryption to secure data against chosen plaintext attack, known plaintext attack, and collusion attack, achieving local differential privacy and high computation efficiency.
result The proposed schemes are computationally efficient and secure against malicious adversaries compared to existing techniques.
Privacy concern has been increasingly important in many machine learning (ML) problems. We study empirical risk minimization (ERM) problems under secure multi-party computation (MPC) frameworks. Main technical tools for MPC have been developed based on cryptography. One of limitations in current cryptographically priva…
COPML framework securely trains models across multiple data owners without revealing individual data.
problem Privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning with multiple data owners.
method Securely encodes data, distributes computation, performs distributed training.
result Achieves up to 16x speedup in training time while maintaining strong privacy.
Secure Aggregation protocols allow a collection of mutually distrust parties, each holding a private value, to collaboratively compute the sum of those values without revealing the values themselves. We consider training a deep neural network in the Federated Learning model, using distributed stochastic gradient descen…
This review covers quantum computing applications in finance and blockchain.
problem Challenges in finance and blockchain security with quantum computing.
method Systematic review of recent quantum finance and blockchain work.
result Quantum-resistant blockchain systems and security measures.
Study forecasts food security trends using real-time data.
problem Food insecurity prediction for sub-national regions.
method Quantitative methodology combining various machine learning models.
result Reservoir Computing model performs best in food security prediction.
Research analyzes ethical concerns around MEV on blockchain and social media.
problem Fairness issues in transaction ordering on blockchain.
method Applied NLP methods to analyze topics in tweets on MEV.
result Tweets discussed ethical concerns like security, equity, and solutions to MEV.
Secure federated learning framework resists adversarial users.
problem Resilience against adversarial (Byzantine) users in federated learning.
method Integrated stochastic quantization, verifiable outlier detection, and secure model aggregation.
result First single-server Byzantine-resilient secure aggregation framework (BREA) for secure federated learning.
Quantum computing offers new solutions for financial optimization, pricing, risk, and security.
problem Core financial bottlenecks in combinatorial search, expectation estimation, and rare-event analysis.
method Identify bottlenecks, specify quantum primitives, compare with classical benchmarks, assess under constraints.
result Strongest near-term case for quantum finance in hybrid workflows, constrained search, and amplitude-estimation.
This paper applies secure multi-party computation to K-means clustering to protect private data.
problem Privacy-preserving K-means clustering for distributed private data.
method Secure multi-party computation (MPC) techniques to protect private data during K-means clustering.
result Privacy-preserving K-means clustering is feasible and effective for both horizontal and vertical data distribution.
Model for open, decentralized network with task load balancing.
problem Complex computational tasks in open, decentralized networks.
method Incentive-based load balancing using economic mechanisms.
result Optimized resource allocation and enhanced system resilience.
Paper accelerates and secures distributed NMF.
problem Efficiently processing large NMF matrices and maintaining data privacy.
method Proposes DSANLS framework with matrix sketching for acceleration and secure adaptation.
result DSANLS framework and secure adaptations for distributed NMF.
Article evaluates AI security threats and proposes multiple measures.
problem Threats to AI integrity and security.
method Literature review, analysis of AI supply chain, discussion of mitigations.
result Multiple protective measures are necessary for AI security.
We present \texttt{secml}, an open-source Python library for secure and explainable machine learning. It implements the most popular attacks against machine learning, including test-time evasion attacks to generate adversarial examples against deep neural networks and training-time poisoning attacks against support vec…
This paper optimizes SMPC for neural network inference, reducing memory and time.
problem Memory and time constraints in secure neural network inference.
method Implemented ABY2.0 protocol, optimized memory usage, and used a helper node.
result MNIST inference reduced from 8.03 GB RAM and 200s to 0.2 GB RAM and 32s.
Efficiently preserves privacy in logistic regression for IoT data.
problem Balancing data privacy and utility in collaborative learning.
method Matrix encryption approach for secure multi-party computation.
result Proposes a privacy-preserving logistic regression model with fast convergence.
HASP: A High-Performance Adaptive Mobile Security Enhancement Against Malicious Speech Recognitioncs.CR
Nowadays, machine learning based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technique has widely spread in smartphones, home devices, and public facilities. As convenient as this technology can be, a considerable security issue also raises -- the users' speech content might be exposed to malicious ASR monitoring and cause seve…
Safeguarding privacy in machine learning is highly desirable, especially in collaborative studies across many organizations. Privacy-preserving distributed machine learning (based on cryptography) is popular to solve the problem. However, existing cryptographic protocols still incur excess computational overhead. Here,…
Classification problems in security settings are usually contemplated as confrontations in which one or more adversaries try to fool a classifier to obtain a benefit. Most approaches to such adversarial classification problems have focused on game theoretical ideas with strong underlying common knowledge assumptions, w…
Recent years have witnessed widespread adoption of machine learning (ML)/deep learning (DL) techniques due to their superior performance for a variety of healthcare applications ranging from the prediction of cardiac arrest from one-dimensional heart signals to computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) using multi-dimensional me…
Paper analyzes InstaHide's security, recovering all private images with provable guarantee.
problem Protecting privacy of training data in neural networks.
method Unified framework to understand and analyze attacks on InstaHide, presenting a new algorithm to recover all private images with provable guarantee.
result InstaHide is computationally secure but not information-theoretically secure when mixing two private images.
Optimizes a portfolio for an investor preferring accepted securities over a reference security.
problem Investor preference for a set of securities over a reference security with constraints.
method Mean-variance optimization with Sharpe Ratio performance measurement.
result Derives an optimal portfolio that maximizes returns while minimizing risk.
A new method for federated learning aggregates data from multiple sites efficiently.
problem Aggregating data from multiple sites securely and effectively.
method Sequential federated learning with distributed computing.
result Preserves information from individual analyses and accelerates the analysis process.
Prime Match protects client stock trades from market price manipulation.
problem Protecting client stock trades from market price manipulation.
method Prime Match uses a two-round secure linear comparison protocol to match orders without revealing information.
result Prime Match reduces market impact and maintains client privacy.
Study shows Bitcoin security tied to mining rewards and prices.
problem Understanding Bitcoin security's dependency on market outcomes.
method Used ARDL approach with daily blockchain and Bitcoin data from 2014-2019.
result Bitcoin security outcomes linked to Bitcoin price and mining rewards.
A one-factor asset pricing model with an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process as its state variable is studied under partial information: the mean-reverting level and the mean-reverting speed parameters are modeled as hidden/unobservable stochastic variables. No-arbitrage pricing formulas for derivative securities written on a …
Securely evaluates the benefits of merging datasets for causal estimation.
problem Challenges in assessing the value of merging datasets for causal treatment effect estimation.
method Cryptographically secure multi-party computation to evaluate Expected Information Gain (EIG) while ensuring privacy.
result Demonstrates the first privacy-preserving method for dataset acquisition tailored to causal estimation.