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Main Authors: Luo, Xinjian, Jiang, Yangfan, Wei, Fei, Wu, Yuncheng, Xiao, Xiaokui, Ooi, Beng Chin
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18607
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author Luo, Xinjian
Jiang, Yangfan
Wei, Fei
Wu, Yuncheng
Xiao, Xiaokui
Ooi, Beng Chin
author_facet Luo, Xinjian
Jiang, Yangfan
Wei, Fei
Wu, Yuncheng
Xiao, Xiaokui
Ooi, Beng Chin
contents Diffusion models have recently gained significant attention in both academia and industry due to their impressive generative performance in terms of both sampling quality and distribution coverage. Accordingly, proposals are made for sharing pre-trained diffusion models across different organizations, as a way of improving data utilization while enhancing privacy protection by avoiding sharing private data directly. However, the potential risks associated with such an approach have not been comprehensively examined. In this paper, we take an adversarial perspective to investigate the potential privacy and fairness risks associated with the sharing of diffusion models. Specifically, we investigate the circumstances in which one party (the sharer) trains a diffusion model using private data and provides another party (the receiver) black-box access to the pre-trained model for downstream tasks. We demonstrate that the sharer can execute fairness poisoning attacks to undermine the receiver's downstream models by manipulating the training data distribution of the diffusion model. Meanwhile, the receiver can perform property inference attacks to reveal the distribution of sensitive features in the sharer's dataset. Our experiments conducted on real-world datasets demonstrate remarkable attack performance on different types of diffusion models, which highlights the critical importance of robust data auditing and privacy protection protocols in pertinent applications.
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spellingShingle Exploring Privacy and Fairness Risks in Sharing Diffusion Models: An Adversarial Perspective
Luo, Xinjian
Jiang, Yangfan
Wei, Fei
Wu, Yuncheng
Xiao, Xiaokui
Ooi, Beng Chin
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Diffusion models have recently gained significant attention in both academia and industry due to their impressive generative performance in terms of both sampling quality and distribution coverage. Accordingly, proposals are made for sharing pre-trained diffusion models across different organizations, as a way of improving data utilization while enhancing privacy protection by avoiding sharing private data directly. However, the potential risks associated with such an approach have not been comprehensively examined. In this paper, we take an adversarial perspective to investigate the potential privacy and fairness risks associated with the sharing of diffusion models. Specifically, we investigate the circumstances in which one party (the sharer) trains a diffusion model using private data and provides another party (the receiver) black-box access to the pre-trained model for downstream tasks. We demonstrate that the sharer can execute fairness poisoning attacks to undermine the receiver's downstream models by manipulating the training data distribution of the diffusion model. Meanwhile, the receiver can perform property inference attacks to reveal the distribution of sensitive features in the sharer's dataset. Our experiments conducted on real-world datasets demonstrate remarkable attack performance on different types of diffusion models, which highlights the critical importance of robust data auditing and privacy protection protocols in pertinent applications.
title Exploring Privacy and Fairness Risks in Sharing Diffusion Models: An Adversarial Perspective
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18607