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20182025
most citedDifferentially Private Model Publishing for Deep Learning

193 citations · 508 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CR2025

Defending Against Beta Poisoning Attacks in Machine Learning Models

Nilufer Gulciftci, M. Emre Gursoy

Poisoning attacks, in which an attacker adversarially manipulates the training dataset of a machine learning (ML) model, pose a significant threat to ML security. Beta Poisoning is…

cs.CR2025

Post-Processing in Local Differential Privacy: An Extensive Evaluation and Benchmark Platform

Alireza Khodaie, Berkay Kemal Balioglu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently gained prominence as a powerful paradigm for collecting and analyzing sensitive data from users' devices. However, the inherent pertur…

cs.CR2024

Grid-Based Decompositions for Spatial Data under Local Differential Privacy

Berkay Kemal Balioglu, Alireza Khodaie, Ameer Taweel +1

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently emerged as a popular privacy standard. With the growing popularity of LDP, several recent works have applied LDP to spatial data, and…

cs.CR2020

Utility-Optimized Synthesis of Differentially Private Location Traces

Mehmet Emre Gursoy, Vivekanand Rajasekar, Ling Liu

Differentially private location trace synthesis (DPLTS) has recently emerged as a solution to protect mobile users' privacy while enabling the analysis and sharing of their locatio…

cs.LG2020★ 51 cited

Data Poisoning Attacks Against Federated Learning Systems

Vale Tolpegin, Stacey Truex, Mehmet Emre Gursoy +1

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for distributed training of large-scale deep neural networks in which participants' data remains on their own devices with only mode…

cs.CR2020★ 2 cited

Understanding Object Detection Through An Adversarial Lens

Ka-Ho Chow, Ling Liu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy +3

Deep neural networks based object detection models have revolutionized computer vision and fueled the development of a wide range of visual recognition applications. However, recen…

cs.LG2020★ 25 cited

LDP-Fed: Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy

Stacey Truex, Ling Liu, Ka-Ho Chow +2

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primaril…

cs.LG2020★ 98 cited

A Framework for Evaluating Gradient Leakage Attacks in Federated Learning

Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu, Margaret Loper +4

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for collaborative model training with a network of clients (edge devices). FL offers default client pr…

cs.LG2020★ 13 cited

TOG: Targeted Adversarial Objectness Gradient Attacks on Real-time Object Detection Systems

Ka-Ho Chow, Ling Liu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy +3

The rapid growth of real-time huge data capturing has pushed the deep learning and data analytic computing to the edge systems. Real-time object recognition on the edge is one of t…

cs.CR2019★ 4 cited

Effects of Differential Privacy and Data Skewness on Membership Inference Vulnerability

Stacey Truex, Ling Liu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy +2

Membership inference attacks seek to infer the membership of individual training instances of a privately trained model. This paper presents a membership privacy analysis and evalu…

cs.CR2019

Utility-aware and privacy-preserving mobile query services

Emre Yigitoglu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy, Ling Liu

Location-based queries enable fundamental services for mobile road network travelers. While the benefits of location-based services (LBS) are numerous, exposure of mobile travelers…

cs.CR2019★ 15 cited

Secure and Utility-Aware Data Collection with Condensed Local Differential Privacy

Mehmet Emre Gursoy, Acar Tamersoy, Stacey Truex +2

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is popularly used in practice for privacy-preserving data collection. Although existing LDP protocols offer high utility for large user populations…

cs.CR2019★ 193 cited

Differentially Private Model Publishing for Deep Learning

Lei Yu, Ling Liu, Calton Pu +2

Deep learning techniques based on neural networks have shown significant success in a wide range of AI tasks. Large-scale training datasets are one of the critical factors for thei…

cs.CR2018★ 82 cited

Towards Demystifying Membership Inference Attacks

Stacey Truex, Ling Liu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy +2

Membership inference attacks seek to infer membership of individual training instances of a model to which an adversary has black-box access through a machine learning-as-a-service…

cs.LG2018★ 25 cited

Adversarial Examples in Deep Learning: Characterization and Divergence

Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu, Margaret Loper +4

The burgeoning success of deep learning has raised the security and privacy concerns as more and more tasks are accompanied with sensitive data. Adversarial attacks in deep learnin…