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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

The Privacy Fallacy of Crowdsourced Fine-Tuning: Extracting Proprietary Data via Topic-Based Poisoning

It is shown that seemingly benign crowdsourced contributions can amplify leakage of other records while remaining difficult to identify through data filtering, demonstrating that seemingly benign crowdsourced contributions can amplify leakage of other records while remaining difficult to identify through data filtering...

Sae Furukawa, Alina Oprea · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

RAISE: Reinforcing Access Control Policy Synthesis in LLMs via Symbolic Evaluation

Translating natural-language access-control requirements into policies requires careful reasoning about permissions, constraints, and exceptions, and even frontier LLMs often produce policies that violate the intended authorization semantics. We construct CedarInstruct, to our knowledge the first dataset that supports...

Ying-Ming Zhou, Adarsh Vatsa, William Eiers · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Tokens Change, Structure Endures: Spectral Watermarking for Generated Speech

Redwing is proposed, a design principle for robust token-level watermarking that generalizes to TTS models at a speech-quality cost close to that of KGW and shows that retokenization is not merely a source of noise: its transition structure can be exploited as a design principle for robust token-level watermarking.

Kanghwi Lee, Kyeongseok Jeong, Jeongmin Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

COGNIT-Guard: Calibrated Standalone Direct-Decision Guardrails with Heterogeneous CPU-NPU Confidence Cascading under Explicit Latency and False-Positive Constraints

When must a foundation-model safety gateway generate tokens, and when should it directly output a calibrated decision? We study calibrated standalone direct-decision foundation models for real-time pre-ingestion safety guardrails, jointly addressing probability calibration, dual-use false-positive control, and heteroge...

Hao Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

The Price of Peeking: Anytime-Valid Leakage Detection on ML-KEM EM Traces

Side-channel evaluators routinely inspect leakage tests while acquisition is still running, and extend or stop the campaign based on what they see. Fixed-horizon screening such as the Welch $t$-test with threshold $|t|>4.5$ gives no error guarantee for this monitored decision rule. We study anytime-valid leakage detect...

Georgios Feretzakis, Alexandros Papaspyridis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Geometry-Adaptive Mechanisms for Private Synthetic Data

Generating differentially private synthetic data with meaningful Wasserstein utility guarantees is challenging in high dimensions. For datasets of size \(n\) on $[0,1]^d$ with $d\ge2$, existing pure \(\varepsilon\)-differentially private mechanisms achieve expected $1$-Wasserstein error of order $(\varepsilon n)^{-1/d}...

Raoof Zare Moayedi, Amir R. Asadi, Mohammad Hossein Yassaee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

DegreeSpar: Structured Degree Sparsity for Efficient Secure Transformer Inference

Secure Transformer inference protects sensitive inputs but incurs substantial cryptographic overhead, with nonlinear operations such as Softmax and GeLU becoming major bottlenecks. Existing compression methods reduce nonlinear complexity, sequence-dependent computation, or model structure through separately defined com...

Yifei Cai, Zhuoran Li, Xiaozuo Shen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Evasion Attacks on Cost-Utility-Based Adversarial Training for Online AutoML in IoT Networks

As Internet of Things (IoT) networks increasingly depend on machine learning for anomaly, malware, intrusion detection, and network monitoring, such systems have become attractive targets for evasion attacks. Evasion attacks pose a major security risk because an adversary intentionally modifies input data to mislead a...

Chukwunonso Henry Nwokoye, Wajiha Zaheer, Khalil El-Khatib et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

TANGO: Watermarking Masked Diffusion Language Models in Token Pairs

TANGO is presented, a watermark for masked-diffusion language models that keys each new token to a nearby token that is already unmasked, and TANGO biases the new token toward a color determined by the key and the nearby token's color.

Kasra Arabi, Nir Weinberger, Micah Goldblum et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Training Witnesses: Trusting the Training without Trusting the Trainer

Progress in machine learning cannot outpace our ability to verify it. With an explosion in papers today, every scientific claim rests initially on trust in the trainer, leading to uneven evaluation, baselines, and forestalling of reliable progress. Traditionally, the burden of verification falls on the reader, who must...

Houjun Liu, Pratyusha Sharma · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

No Free Efficiency: Revisiting the Trade-off Between Training Efficiency and Model Vulnerability

Across vision and language models, it is shown that efficiency-oriented training increases susceptibility to adversarial and privacy attacks, and is called for a paradigm shift toward multi-objective training that jointly optimizes for performance, cost, and security.

Yi-Yong Liu, Jun Sakuma, Michael Backes et al. · 0 citations

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Google DeepMind Blog Jul 17, 2026

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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