Verifying Differentially Private Median Estimation

Differential Privacy DP is a robust privacy guarantee that is widely employed in private data analysis today, finding broad application in domains such as statistical query release and machine learning. However, DP achieves privacy by introducing noise into data or query answers, which malicious...

Privacy-Aware Cyberterrorism Network Analysis Using Graph Neural Networks and Federated Learning

Cyberterrorism poses a formidable threat to digital infrastructures, with increasing reliance on encrypted, decentralized platforms that obscure threat actor activity. To address the challenge of analyzing such adversarial networks while preserving the privacy of distributed intelligence data, we...

EC-LDA : Label Distribution Inference Attack against Federated Graph Learning with Embedding Compression

Graph Neural Networks GNNs have been widely used for graph analysis. Federated Graph Learning FGL is an emerging learning framework to collaboratively train graph data from various clients. However, since clients are required to upload model parameters to the server in each round, this provides t...

Vulnerability of Transfer-Learned Neural Networks to Data Reconstruction Attacks in Small-Data Regime

Training data reconstruction attacks enable adversaries to recover portions of a released model's training data. We consider the attacks where a reconstructor neural network learns to invert the random mapping between training data and model weights. Prior work has shown that an informed adversar...

Optimal Client Sampling in Federated Learning with Client-Level Heterogeneous Differential Privacy

Federated Learning with client-level differential privacy DP provides a promising framework for collaboratively training models while rigorously protecting clients' privacy. However, classic approaches like DP-FedAvg struggle when clients have heterogeneous privacy requirements, as they must...

An Automated Blackbox Noncompliance Checker for QUIC Server Implementations

We develop QUICtester, an automated approach for uncovering non-compliant behaviors in the ratified QUIC protocol implementations RFC 9000/9001. QUICtester leverages active automata learning to abstract the behavior of a QUIC implementation into a finite state machine FSM representation. Unlike...

Private Statistical Estimation Via Truncation

We introduce a novel framework for differentially private DP statistical estimation via data truncation, addressing a key challenge in DP estimation when the data support is unbounded. Traditional approaches rely on problem-specific sensitivity analysis, limiting their applicability. By leveragin...

SynFuzz: Leveraging Fuzzing of Netlist to Detect Synthesis Bugs

In the evolving landscape of integrated circuit IC design, the increasing complexity of modern processors and intellectual property IP cores has introduced new challenges in ensuring design correctness and security. The recent advancements in hardware fuzzing techniques have shown their efficacy ...

Cape: Context-Aware Prompt Perturbation Mechanism with Differential Privacy

Large Language Models LLMs have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. However, despite their widespread deployment in inference services such as ChatGPT, concerns about the potential leakage of sensitive user data have arisen...

python: cpython: URL parser allowed square brackets in domain names

A flaw was found in Python. The Python standard library functions urllib.parse.urlsplit and urlparse accept domain names that included square brackets, which isn't valid according to RFC 3986. Square brackets are only meant to be used as delimiters for specifying IPv6 and IPvFuture hosts in URLs...

On the Interplay of Explainability, Privacy and Predictive Performance with Explanation-Assisted Model Extraction

Machine Learning as a Service MLaaS has gained important attraction as a means for deploying powerful predictive models, offering ease of use that enables organizations to leverage advanced analytics without substantial investments in specialized infrastructure or expertise. However, MLaaS...

Improved Algorithms for Differentially Private Language Model Alignment

Language model alignment is crucial for ensuring that large language models LLMs align with human preferences, yet it often involves sensitive user data, raising significant privacy concerns. While prior work has integrated differential privacy DP with alignment techniques, their performance...

Privacy-Preserving Analytics for Smart Meter (AMI) Data: a Hybrid Approach to Comply with CPUC Privacy Regulations

Advanced Metering Infrastructure AMI data from smart electric and gas meters enables valuable insights for utilities and consumers, but also raises significant privacy concerns. In California, regulatory decisions CPUC D.11-07-056 and D.11-08-045 mandate strict privacy protections for customer...

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Have I Forgotten It All? A New Framework for Evaluating Machine Unlearning

Machine unlearning methods take a model trained on a dataset and a forget set, then attempt to produce a model as if it had only been trained on the examples not in the forget set. We empirically show that an adversary is able to distinguish between a mirror model a control model produced by...

TokenProber: Jailbreaking Text-To-Image Models Via Fine-Grained Word Impact Analysis

Text-to-image T2I models have significantly advanced in producing high-quality images. However, such models have the ability to generate images containing not-safe-for-work NSFW content, such as pornography, violence, political content, and discrimination. To mitigate the risk of generating NSFW...

An \Tilde{O}Ptimal Differentially Private Learner for Concept Classes with VC Dimension 1

We present the first nearly optimal differentially private PAC learner for any concept class with VC dimension 1 and Littlestone dimension $d$. Our algorithm achieves the sample complexity of $\tildeO\varepsilon,δ,α,δ\log^ d$, nearly matching the lower bound of $Ω\log^ d$ proved by Alon et al...

DPolicy: Managing Privacy Risks across Multiple Releases with Differential Privacy

Differential Privacy DP has emerged as a robust framework for privacy-preserving data releases and has been successfully applied in high-profile cases, such as the 2020 US Census. However, in organizational settings, the use of DP remains largely confined to isolated data releases. This approach...

RiM: Record, Improve and Maintain Physical Well-Being Using Federated Learning

In academic settings, the demanding environment often forces students to prioritize academic performance over their physical well-being. Moreover, privacy concerns and the inherent risk of data breaches hinder the deployment of traditional machine learning techniques for addressing these health...

On the Price of Differential Privacy for Spectral Clustering over Stochastic Block Models

We investigate privacy-preserving spectral clustering for community detection within stochastic block models SBMs. Specifically, we focus on edge differential privacy DP and propose private algorithms for community recovery. Our work explores the fundamental trade-offs between the privacy budget...

Optimal Regret of Bernoulli Bandits under Global Differential Privacy

As sequential learning algorithms are increasingly applied to real life, ensuring data privacy while maintaining their utilities emerges as a timely question. In this context, regret minimisation in stochastic bandits under $ε$-global Differential Privacy DP has been widely studied. Unlike bandit...