9 papers
Mitigating Membership Inference in Intermediate Representations with Differentially Private Training
Jiayang Meng, Tao Huang, Chen Hou +2
In Embedding-as-an-Interface (EaaI) settings, pre-trained models are queried for Intermediate Representations (IRs). The distributional properties of IRs can leak training-set memb…
Observable Channels, Not Just Storage: Evaluating Privacy Leakage in LLM Agent Pipelines
Tao Huang, Chen Hou, Guosen Wu +1
Privacy leakage in LLM agents is often studied through individual storage or execution components, such as memory modules, retrieval pipelines, or tool-mediated artifacts. However,…
DP-aware AdaLN-Zero: Taming Conditioning-Induced Heavy-Tailed Gradients in Differentially Private Diffusion
Tao Huang, Jiayang Meng, Xu Yang +2
Condition injection enables diffusion models to generate context-aware outputs, which is essential for many time-series tasks. However, heterogeneous conditional contexts (e.g., ob…
Enhanced Privacy Leakage from Noise-Perturbed Gradients via Gradient-Guided Conditional Diffusion Models
Jiayang Meng, Tao Huang, Hong Chen +2
Federated learning synchronizes models through gradient transmission and aggregation. However, these gradients pose significant privacy risks, as sensitive training data is embedde…
Real-Time Privacy Risk Measurement with Privacy Tokens for Gradient Leakage
Jiayang Meng, Tao Huang, Hong Chen +3
The widespread deployment of deep learning models in privacy-sensitive domains has amplified concerns regarding privacy risks, particularly those stemming from gradient leakage dur…
Intermediate Outputs Are More Sensitive Than You Think
Tao Huang, Qingyu Huang, Jiayang Meng
The increasing reliance on deep computer vision models that process sensitive data has raised significant privacy concerns, particularly regarding the exposure of intermediate resu…