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most citedExposing Influence Campaigns in the Age of LLMs: A Behavioral-Based AI Approach to Detecting State-Sponsored Trolls

21 citations · 27 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Explanations Leak: Membership Inference with Differential Privacy and Active Learning Defense

Fatima Ezzeddine, Osama Zammar, Silvia Giordano +1

Counterfactual explanations (CFs) are increasingly integrated into Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) systems to improve transparency; however, ML models deployed via APIs are a…

cs.LG2026

Fair Recourse for All: Ensuring Individual and Group Fairness in Counterfactual Explanations

Fatima Ezzeddine, Obaida Ammar, Silvia Giordano +1

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is becoming increasingly essential for enhancing the transparency of machine learning (ML) models. Among the various XAI techniques, count…

cs.LG2025

Fair-FLIP: Fair Deepfake Detection with Fairness-Oriented Final Layer Input Prioritising

Tomasz Szandala, Fatima Ezzeddine, Natalia Rusin +2

Artificial Intelligence-generated content has become increasingly popular, yet its malicious use, particularly the deepfakes, poses a serious threat to public trust and discourse.…

cs.CR2025

On the interplay of Explainability, Privacy and Predictive Performance with Explanation-assisted Model Extraction

Fatima Ezzeddine, Rinad Akel, Ihab Sbeity +3

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has gained important attraction as a means for deploying powerful predictive models, offering ease of use that enables organizations to levera…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Privacy Implications of Explainable AI in Data-Driven Systems

Fatima Ezzeddine

Machine learning (ML) models, demonstrably powerful, suffer from a lack of interpretability. The absence of transparency, often referred to as the black box nature of ML models, un…

cs.LG2024

Differential Privacy for Anomaly Detection: Analyzing the Trade-off Between Privacy and Explainability

Fatima Ezzeddine, Mirna Saad, Omran Ayoub +5

Anomaly detection (AD), also referred to as outlier detection, is a statistical process aimed at identifying observations within a dataset that significantly deviate from the expec…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Knowledge Distillation-Based Model Extraction Attack using GAN-based Private Counterfactual Explanations

Fatima Ezzeddine, Omran Ayoub, Silvia Giordano

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the deployment of machine learning (ML) models as services (MLaaS) across diverse production software applications. In paralle…

cs.SI2022★ 21 cited

Exposing Influence Campaigns in the Age of LLMs: A Behavioral-Based AI Approach to Detecting State-Sponsored Trolls

Fatima Ezzeddine, Luca Luceri, Omran Ayoub +4

The detection of state-sponsored trolls operating in influence campaigns on social media is a critical and unsolved challenge for the research community, which has significant impl…