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We also present principled approaches to analyzing machine learning security in many other aspects, such as robust verification and privacy. For example, we applied quantitative verification to check fairness and adversarial robustness of neural networks, in a sound and scalable manner. We also analyzed the root causes of membership inference attacks through a causal framework, showcasing the importance of causal reasoning as opposed to drawing conclusions purely with observations of statistical correlation. We worked on making differential privacy more practical for fully-distributed graph processing, e.g. for hierarchical clustering and training GNNs. Lastly, we are studying data repudiation, i.e., convincing a verifier that a data point was not used in training. We also used ML for security analysis, such as learning taint rules to perform dynamic binary taint analysis

Relevant Publications
Unforgeability in Stochastic Gradient Descent
Teodora Baluta, Ivica Nikolic, Racchit Jain, Divesh Aggarwal, Prateek Saxena
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2023). Copenhagen, DK, Nov 2023.
LPGNet: Link Private Graph Networks for Node Classification
Aashish Kolluri, Teodora Baluta, Prateek Saxena
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022). Los Angeles, CA, Nov 2022.
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Membership Inference Attacks and Generalization: A Causal Perspective
Teodora Baluta, Shiqi Shen, S. Hitarth, Shruti Tople, Prateek Saxena
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022). Los Angeles, CA, Nov 2022.
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Private Hierarchical Clustering in Federated Networks
Aashish Kolluri, Teodora Baluta, Prateek Saxena
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2021). Korea, Nov 2021.
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Scalable Quantitative Verification For Deep Neural Networks
Teodora Baluta, Zheng Leong Chua, Kuldeep S. Meel, Prateek Saxena
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021). Madrid, Spain, May 2021.
Quantitative verification of neural networks and its security applications
Teodora Baluta, Shiqi Shen, Shweta Shinde, Kuldeep S. Meel, Prateek Saxena
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019). London, UK, Nov 2019.
One Engine To Serve 'em All: Inferring Taint Rules Without Architectural Semantics
Zheng Leong Chua, Yanhao Wang, Prateek Saxena, Zhenkai Liang, Purui Su
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2019). San Diego, CA, Feb 2019.
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