arXiv Machine Learning

TIGER: Inverting Transformer Gradients via Embedding-Subspace Distance Optimization

arXiv:2606. 18312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning allows multiple clients to jointly train a shared model by sending gradient updates to a central server while keeping raw inputs local.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

FedCVESA: Taking Away Training Data in Federated Learning via Correlation Value Encoding and Segmented Aggregation

Federated learning (FL) avoids explicit data exposure by keeping raw data on local clients, yet privacy risks remain in the training process and the learned model itself. Recently, centralized Taking Away Training Data (TATD) attacks have shown that malicious training could abuse the memorization capacity of deep models to store and later recover training data.

arXiv AI
Sep 11

Cascading Gradient Inversion via LT-Code Inspired Peeling in Federated Learning

The paper introduces a new gradient inversion attack for federated learning that leverages concepts from erasure‑correcting codes to recover entire training batches and their labels from a single FedSGD round. Unlike previous analytic attacks, this method can exactly reconstruct batches of up to 128 samples on ImageNet and achieves over 90% recovery even when the attacker actively manipulates the model. The study demonstrates that federated learning’s privacy leakage is far greater than previously estimated.

By Saeed Shariati, Mohsen Alambardar Meybodi
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

IntraShuffler: A Privacy Preserving Framework for Heterogeneous DP Federated Learning

Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (HDP) in Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to select individual privacy budgets ($\varepsilon_i$) according to institutional policies and data sensitivity. In practice, many HDP-FL systems employ $\varepsilon$-aware server aggregation to improve model utility by re-weighting client updates according to their declared privacy budgets.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Profiling Privacy Preservation Against Gradient Inversion Attacks in Tabular Federated Learning

arXiv:2606. 00986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables multiple data holders to train machine learning models collaboratively without centralizing raw data, making it useful in privacy sensitive domains such as healthcare and institutional data sharing.

By Ivo Osterberg Nilsson, Maximilian Birr Engvall, Viktor Valadi, Teddy Lazebnik
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Denoising-Aware Inversion: Revealing Privacy Risks in Noise-Protected Text Embeddings

The paper investigates the vulnerability of Gaussian‑noised text embeddings to inversion attacks. It identifies a "Double Noise Trap" that hampers standard generative methods and introduces DAEI, a denoising‑aware pipeline that significantly outperforms existing baselines in reconstructing original text. Experiments show DAEI improves BLEU by 154% and token‑level metrics by 32–60%.

By Yubo Wang, Shujie Cui, James Bailey, Hongzhi Yin, Wenyu Liang, Min Tang, Shiyue Qin, Weiqing Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

Privacy Leakage on DNNs: A Survey of Model Inversion Attacks and Defenses

The paper "Privacy Leakage on DNNs: A Survey of Model Inversion Attacks and Defenses" provides a comprehensive review of model inversion (MI) attacks that exploit trained deep neural networks to reconstruct private training data. It traces the evolution of MI from early machine‑learning contexts to recent DNN‑based attacks across various modalities and learning tasks, offering a detailed taxonomy and comparative analysis of both attacks and defenses. The authors also present an open‑source toolbox on GitHub to support further research in this area.

By Hao Fang, Yixiang Qiu, Hongyao Yu, Wenbo Yu, Jiawei Kong, Baoli Chong, Bin Chen, Xuan Wang, Shu-Tao Xia, Ke Xu