DeepInvert: Semi-Supervised Embedding Inversion Against Obfuscated Language Models
arXiv:2608. 04477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-based language model services routinely process prompts containing sensitive information.
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%.
arXiv:2608. 04477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-based language model services routinely process prompts containing sensitive information.
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.
arXiv:2507. 01752v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gradient-based optimization is the workhorse of deep learning, offering efficient and scalable training via backpropagation.
arXiv:2606. 26373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense embeddings power semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation, but embedding-inversion attacks can reconstruct source text from a vector: when a vector database leaks, the documents behind it leak too.
arXiv:2607. 04339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large generative models across text-to-text, text-to-image, and image-to-text modalities have been shown to pose significant privacy risks.
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.
arXiv:2411. 10023v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep neural networks have enabled numerous studies and applications on both Euclidean data, such as images and text, and non-Euclidean data, such as graphs.
The paper introduces MOSAIC, a large adversarial benchmark for detecting AI-generated text, and presents NeuroStat, a new framework that combines token‑level probabilistic logits with deep semantic hidden states from a single language model. NeuroStat fuses these signals via Macro‑State Residual Modulation and uses orthogonal and contrastive losses to learn complementary representations. Experiments show that NeuroStat outperforms existing methods on MOSAIC, achieving superior robustness against adversarial attacks.
arXiv:2601. 21628v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in image generation, but their increasing deployment raises serious concerns about privacy and copyright.
arXiv:2607. 12354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we challenge the prevailing view that information dependency (including rote memorization) drives training data exposure to image reconstruction attacks.
With the widespread applications of large language models (LLMs), privacy-preserving inference has become increasingly essential for sensitive queries. To balance privacy and utility, a series of ligh...
The paper introduces SHAQ, a defense called Shadow Query Generation that protects document embeddings in vector databases from embedding inversion attacks. SHAQ replaces direct embeddings with diverse shadow queries generated by a language model, thereby decomposing document semantics and decoupling stored embeddings from the original text. Experiments on various IR datasets show that SHAQ significantly lowers recovery rates, defends more tokens than baseline methods, and even improves retrieval utility.