activity
20202024
collaborators

6 papers

cs.AI2024

AskBeacon -- Performing genomic data exchange and analytics with natural language

Anuradha Wickramarachchi, Shakila Tonni, Sonali Majumdar +7

Enabling clinicians and researchers to directly interact with global genomic data resources by removing technological barriers is vital for medical genomics. AskBeacon enables Larg…

cs.LG2024

Graded Suspiciousness of Adversarial Texts to Human

Shakila Mahjabin Tonni, Pedro Faustini, Mark Dras

Adversarial examples pose a significant challenge to deep neural networks (DNNs) across both image and text domains, with the intent to degrade model performance through meticulous…

cs.CL2024

IDT: Dual-Task Adversarial Attacks for Privacy Protection

Pedro Faustini, Shakila Mahjabin Tonni, Annabelle McIver +2

Natural language processing (NLP) models may leak private information in different ways, including membership inference, reconstruction or attribute inference attacks. Sensitive in…

cs.LG2023

What Learned Representations and Influence Functions Can Tell Us About Adversarial Examples

Shakila Mahjabin Tonni, Mark Dras

Adversarial examples, deliberately crafted using small perturbations to fool deep neural networks, were first studied in image processing and more recently in NLP. While approaches…

cs.LG2022

Directional Privacy for Deep Learning

Pedro Faustini, Natasha Fernandes, Shakila Tonni +2

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a key method for applying privacy in the training of deep learning models. It applies isotropic Gaussian noise to gra…

cs.LG2020

Data and Model Dependencies of Membership Inference Attack

Shakila Mahjabin Tonni, Dinusha Vatsalan, Farhad Farokhi +3

Machine learning (ML) models have been shown to be vulnerable to Membership Inference Attacks (MIA), which infer the membership of a given data point in the target dataset by obser…