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most citedAre Your Sensitive Attributes Private? Novel Model Inversion Attribute Inference Attacks on Classification Models

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15 papers

cs.CR2026

LogicEval: A Systematic Framework for Evaluating Automated Repair Techniques for Logical Vulnerabilities in Real-World Software

Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Kai Tu +7

Logical vulnerabilities in software stem from flaws in program logic rather than memory safety, which can lead to critical security failures. Although existing automated program re…

cs.CV2026

Robustness of Vision Language Models Against Split-Image Harmful Input Attacks

Md Rafi Ur Rashid, MD Sadik Hossain Shanto, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu +1

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are now a core part of modern AI. Recent work proposed several visual jailbreak attacks using single/ holistic images. However, contemporary VLMs demo…

cs.CR2026

Baiting AI: Deceptive Adversary Against AI-Protected Industrial Infrastructures

Aryan Pasikhani, Prosanta Gope, Yang Yang +2

This paper explores a new cyber-attack vector targeting Industrial Control Systems (ICS), particularly focusing on water treatment facilities. Developing a new multi-agent Deep Rei…

cs.LG2025

From Insight to Exploit: Leveraging LLM Collaboration for Adaptive Adversarial Text Generation

Najrin Sultana, Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Kang Gu +1

LLMs can provide substantial zero-shot performance on diverse tasks using a simple task prompt, eliminating the need for training or fine-tuning. However, when applying these model…

cs.LG2025

Benchmarking Robust Aggregation in Decentralized Gradient Marketplaces

Zeyu Song, Sainyam Galhotra, Shagufta Mehnaz

The rise of distributed and privacy-preserving machine learning has sparked interest in decentralized gradient marketplaces, where participants trade intermediate artifacts like gr…

cs.CL2025

Chain-of-Thought Driven Adversarial Scenario Extrapolation for Robust Language Models

Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, Ye Wang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities, but remain susceptible to a growing spectrum of safety risks, including jailbreaks, toxic content, hallucinations, and…

cs.LG2025

Disparate Privacy Vulnerability: Targeted Attribute Inference Attacks and Defenses

Ehsanul Kabir, Lucas Craig, Shagufta Mehnaz

As machine learning (ML) technologies become more prevalent in privacy-sensitive areas like healthcare and finance, eventually incorporating sensitive information in building data-…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Forget to Flourish: Leveraging Machine-Unlearning on Pretrained Language Models for Privacy Leakage

Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Jing Liu, Toshiaki Koike-Akino +2

Fine-tuning large language models on private data for downstream applications poses significant privacy risks in potentially exposing sensitive information. Several popular communi…

cs.LG2024

Second-Order Information Matters: Revisiting Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models

Kang Gu, Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Najrin Sultana +1

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), we have witnessed intense competition among the major LLM products like ChatGPT, LLaMa, and Gemini. However, various iss…

cs.CR2023

GNNBleed: Inference Attacks to Unveil Private Edges in Graphs with Realistic Access to GNN Models

Zeyu Song, Ehsanul Kabir, Shagufta Mehnaz

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become indispensable tools for learning from graph structured data, catering to various applications such as social network analysis and fraud det…

cs.CR2023

Gradient-Free Privacy Leakage in Federated Language Models through Selective Weight Tampering

Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, Kang Gu +2

Federated learning (FL) has become a key component in various language modeling applications such as machine translation, next-word prediction, and medical record analysis. These a…

cs.CR2023

Attacks Meet Interpretability (AmI) Evaluation and Findings

Qian Ma, Ziping Ye, Shagufta Mehnaz

To investigate the effectiveness of the model explanation in detecting adversarial examples, we reproduce the results of two papers, Attacks Meet Interpretability: Attribute-steere…

cs.CR2023

FLShield: A Validation Based Federated Learning Framework to Defend Against Poisoning Attacks

Ehsanul Kabir, Zeyu Song, Md Rafi Ur Rashid +1

Federated learning (FL) is revolutionizing how we learn from data. With its growing popularity, it is now being used in many safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles and…

cs.CR2022★ 20 cited

Are Your Sensitive Attributes Private? Novel Model Inversion Attribute Inference Attacks on Classification Models

Shagufta Mehnaz, Sayanton V. Dibbo, Ehsanul Kabir +2

Increasing use of machine learning (ML) technologies in privacy-sensitive domains such as medical diagnoses, lifestyle predictions, and business decisions highlights the need to be…

cs.CR2020★ 7 cited

Black-box Model Inversion Attribute Inference Attacks on Classification Models

Shagufta Mehnaz, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino

Increasing use of ML technologies in privacy-sensitive domains such as medical diagnoses, lifestyle predictions, and business decisions highlights the need to better understand if…