David Evans

Dad, Teacher, Computer Scientist, Unreasonable Optimist

[Anshuman Suri @iamgroot42]

1/ Most membership inference attacks (MIAs) have seemingly converged to black-box settings, driven by empirical evidence and theoretical folklore suggesting black-box access was optimal. But what if this assumption missed something critical? 😨

tl;dr? It did 🧵

[Anshuman Suri @iamgroot42]

Temporally shifted data splits in membership inference can be misleading ⚠️ Be cautious when interpreting these benchmarks!

[Anshuman Suri @iamgroot42]

Wrote a blurb for my submission "adversarial rinsing" 😈🧼 to the 'Erasing the Invisible' competition organized by @bang_an_ @furongh & co - awesome job btw! 🎉

Ranked nowhere near the top lol but a great learning experience!

https://t.co/wfjj6lBx7o

[Mikerah @badcryptobitch]

Best book to started is A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Computation
Despite working on MPC for almost 4 years, I refer to this pretty regularly and have my staff at both @hashcloak and @StoffelMPC read it. It's pretty accessible as long as you have high school to first 1 of uni math skills (calculus + linear algebra)

https://t.co/SlGbwakdcg

[David Evans @UdacityDave]

Thanks, @JaydeepBorkar! I should probably update that someday - its more than 20 years old now, but mostly still true. Even harder now for new students to get an email noticed with all the GPT-generated emails around now, but can still make it clear you've put in some effort.

[Jaydeep Borkar @JaydeepBorkar]

@EugeneVinitsky Something that worked for me when I was applying was following @UdacityDave blogpost on emailing potential advisors (https://t.co/HPcTVbhx3D) It has some great advice on doing your homework and writing a brief email :)

[Fnu Suya @suyafnu]

I’m recruiting PhD students interested in trustworthy ML and ML for security this cycle! Please reach out via email anytime or find me at @acm_ccs next week. Retweets are greatly appreciated!

[EECS @EECS_UTK]

Meet Assistant Professor Fnu Suya. His research interests include the application of machine learning techniques to security-critical applications and the vulnerabilities of machine learning models in the presence of adversaries, generally known as trustworthy machine learning.

[Blue Ridge Boost @blueridgeboost]

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[Anshuman Suri @iamgroot42]

Does white-box access help with membership inference? 🤔

tl;dr: Yes ✅

Come find Xiao (@xzhang_0427) at the High-dimensional Learning Dynamics (HiLD) Workshop at @icmlconf this Friday to learn more 📊🔍

Prior works (@alexsablay et al. https://t.co/FOG0jz9gHB) theoretically show how black-box access is optimal for membership inference, and these findings seem to align with folklore and empirical observations around MIAs. However, the underlying assumptions for this theoretical result do not hold for models trained with SGD.

We theoretically show that parameter access helps. Our theory also prescribes an attack that can be used for privacy auditing without any reference models.

Read the full paper: https://t.co/Jhe6Dj0rY7

#ICML2024

[David Evans @UdacityDave]

@Yuantest3 Congratulations Yuan!

[David Evans @UdacityDave]

@iamgroot42 @KhouryCollege @Northeastern @AlinaMOprea Thanks so much, Dr. Suri - and congratulations on a terrific dissertation and outstanding presentation! It has been an honor to be part of your work, and I am excited for all the things you will do at @KhouryCollege and beyond.

[David Evans @UdacityDave]

@thegautamkamath @ccanonne_ @shortstein Congratulations! This is a much deserved award for highly impactful and beautiful work.

[Anshuman Suri @iamgroot42]

Our MIA evaluation research for LLMs has been accepted at @COLM_conf! 🥳 It's time to think beyond just exact-record membership for privacy audits. Hope to see you in Philly soon!

Meanwhile, check out this fascinating collection of related works that have emerged recently 👇

[Blue Ridge Boost @blueridgeboost]

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[Fnu Suya @suyafnu]

@UdacityDave Thanks Dave, it was also an honor to be advised you and @Yuantest3 !

[David Evans @UdacityDave]

Congratulations Suya! Its been a privilege to advise you, and excited to see all the great things you will do at UTK!

[Fnu Suya @suyafnu]

🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that I am joining the @EECS_UTK at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as an Assistant Professor this fall. Grateful for all the support from my mentors and colleagues throughout my academic journey.

[Blue Ridge Boost @blueridgeboost]

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[Nando Fioretto @nandofioretto]

Excited to share our work on data minimization for ML!

The principle of data minimization is a cornerstone of global data protection regulations, but how do we implement it in ML contexts?

🧵: Let's dive into some insights.
🔗: https://t.co/jb58uIr8Uf

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[Wenxi Wang @WenxiWang4]

As an incoming Assistant Professor @UVA CS, I invite applications for multiple PhD and internship positions!

Seeking passionate individuals for interdisciplinary research in Software Engineering, Formal Methods, and Machine Learning. For more details, visit https://t.co/5yJ7mzB4xg.

Reach out if you are interested, and/or spread the word!