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20192025
most citedAchilles' Heels: Vulnerable Record Identification in Synthetic Data Publishing

14 citations · 37 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2025

Evaluating Concept Filtering Defenses against Child Sexual Abuse Material Generation by Text-to-Image Models

Ana-Maria Cretu, Klim Kireev, Amro Abdalla +5

We evaluate the effectiveness of filtering child images from training datasets of text-to-image models to prevent model misuse to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM). First,…

cs.CV2025

A Manually Annotated Image-Caption Dataset for Detecting Children in the Wild

Klim Kireev, Ana-Maria Creţu, Raphael Meier +3

Platforms and the law regulate digital content depicting minors (defined as individuals under 18 years of age) differently from other types of content. Given the sheer amount of co…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

QueryCheetah: Fast Automated Discovery of Attribute Inference Attacks Against Query-Based Systems

Bozhidar Stevanoski, Ana-Maria Cretu, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Query-based systems (QBSs) are one of the key approaches for sharing data. QBSs allow analysts to request aggregate information from a private protected dataset. Attacks are a cruc…

cs.CR2024

A Zero Auxiliary Knowledge Membership Inference Attack on Aggregate Location Data

Vincent Guan, Florent Guépin, Ana-Maria Cretu +1

Location data is frequently collected from populations and shared in aggregate form to guide policy and decision making. However, the prevalence of aggregated data also raises the…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

Re-pseudonymization Strategies for Smart Meter Data Are Not Robust to Deep Learning Profiling Attacks

Ana-Maria Cretu, Miruna Rusu, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Smart meters, devices measuring the electricity and gas consumption of a household, are currently being deployed at a fast rate throughout the world. The data they collect are extr…

cs.CR2023

Synthetic is all you need: removing the auxiliary data assumption for membership inference attacks against synthetic data

Florent Guépin, Matthieu Meeus, Ana-Maria Cretu +1

Synthetic data is emerging as one of the most promising solutions to share individual-level data while safeguarding privacy. While membership inference attacks (MIAs), based on sha…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Deep perceptual hashing algorithms with hidden dual purpose: when client-side scanning does facial recognition

Shubham Jain, Ana-Maria Cretu, Antoine Cully +1

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) provides strong technical protections to individuals from interferences. Governments and law enforcement agencies around the world have however raised…

cs.CR2023★ 14 cited

Achilles' Heels: Vulnerable Record Identification in Synthetic Data Publishing

Matthieu Meeus, Florent Guépin, Ana-Maria Cretu +1

Synthetic data is seen as the most promising solution to share individual-level data while preserving privacy. Shadow modeling-based Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have become…

cs.CR2023

Investigating the Effect of Misalignment on Membership Privacy in the White-box Setting

Ana-Maria Cretu, Daniel Jones, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye +1

Machine learning models have been shown to leak sensitive information about their training datasets. Models are increasingly deployed on devices, raising concerns that white-box ac…

cs.CR2022★ 11 cited

QuerySnout: Automating the Discovery of Attribute Inference Attacks against Query-Based Systems

Ana-Maria Cretu, Florimond Houssiau, Antoine Cully +1

Although query-based systems (QBS) have become one of the main solutions to share data anonymously, building QBSes that robustly protect the privacy of individuals contributing to…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Correlation inference attacks against machine learning models

Ana-Maria Creţu, Florent Guépin, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Despite machine learning models being widely used today, the relationship between a model and its training dataset is not well understood. We explore correlation inference attacks,…

physics.hist-ph2019

Diagnosing Disagreements: The Authentication of the Positron 1931-1934

Ana-Maria Cretu

This paper bridges a historiographical gap in accounts of the prediction and discovery of the positron by combining three ingredients. First, the prediction and discovery of the po…