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SCRUB-FL: Sanitizing and Cleansing Representations via Unlearning of Backdoors

arXiv:2606.22700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, making it a promising paradigm for privacy-sensitive applicatio

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23 Jun 2026

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Subspace-Constrained Federated Learning with Low-Rank Adaptation

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arXiv:2606.22724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated low-rank adaptation methods are attractive for fine-tuning large models under communication and privacy constraints, but heterogeneous client

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23 Jun 2026

Adv-TGD: Adversarial Text-Guided Diffusion for Face Recognition Impersonation Attacks

arXiv:2606.11615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of face recognition (FR) technologies raises serious privacy concerns, as facial data can be exploited without consent. To addre

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11 Jun 2026

Fixed-Parameter Tractability of Private Synthetic Data Generation

arXiv:2606.11283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the problem of generating synthetic data under differential privacy. We establish fixed-parameter tractability (FPT) for this problem where t

11 Jun 2026

Does Reasoning Preserve Alignment? On the Trustworthiness of Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2606.11046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction-tuned LLMs are increasingly converted into reasoning models through post-training to improve multi-step task performance. This conversion is

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From Data Heterogeneity to Convergence: A Data-Centric Review of Federated Learning

arXiv:2606.10595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution for data hunger in centralized learning. This paradigm enables privacy with multiple clien

QSplitFL: Capability Aware Deep Q-Learning for Optimal Split Point Selection in Split Federated Learning

arXiv:2606.09869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) combined with Split Learning (SL) is a privacy preserving paradigm that enables training deep neural networks (DNNs) on resour

SoK: Colluding Adversaries in Machine Learning Pipelines

arXiv:2606.10091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) models are susceptible to various security, privacy, and fairness risks. Adversaries with different characteristics (i.e., objec

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SPACE: Source-free Proxy Anchor Concept Erasure for MLLMs

arXiv:2606.09868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) face growing privacy risks and regulatory constraints, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a crucial so

Differentially Private Synthetic Data via APIs 4: Tabular Data

arXiv:2606.08259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates the problem of generating synthetic tabular data with differential privacy (DP) guarantees, enabling data sharing in sensitive d

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Model Multiplicity for Adversarial Detection in Small Language Model Training on Edge Devices

arXiv:2606.07857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rise of edge-based machine learning has enabled distributed adaptation of language models across mobile and IoT devices, offering privacy preserva

PicoSAM3: Real-Time In-Sensor Region-of-Interest Segmentation

arXiv:2603.11917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time, on-device segmentation is critical for latency-sensitive and privacy-aware applications such as smart glasses and Internet-of-Things devi

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ReTabSyn: Realistic Tabular Data Synthesis via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603.10823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep generative models can help with data scarcity and privacy by producing synthetic training data, but they struggle in low-data, imbalanced

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Synthetic but Not Realistic: The Evaluation Challenge in Generative Modelling for Structured Electronic Medical Records

arXiv:2606.08903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic healthcare data are widely proposed as privacy-preserving substitutes for real patient data, yet their evaluation remains dominated by statist

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X-Palm: Paired Multispectral-to-Smartphone Dataset for Cross-Domain Palmprint Authentication

arXiv:2606.08437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Palmprint modality offers a privacy-preserving biometric solution, yet its deployment is hindered by the domain gap between controlled enrollment and

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From Vision to Text: A Compact Multimodal Approach for Robust, Cross-Domain Presentation Attack Detection on ID Cards

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arXiv:2606.06966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain shifts challenge Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) on ID Cards, given the restricted data available due to privacy concerns. This work pr

Model Recycling Framework for Multi-Source Data-Free Supervised Transfer Learning

arXiv:2508.02039v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Increasing concerns for data privacy and other difficulties associated with retrieving source data for model training have created the need for sour

STREAM: Stochastic Riemannian Flow Matching with Anisotropic Decoder for Digital Histopathology Image Generation

arXiv:2606.07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic histopathology image generation addresses critical challenges in computational pathology, including patient privacy and the growing need for

The Capacity of Information-Theoretic Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning

arXiv:2606.07277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Secure aggregation allows a server to aggregate users' local updates while preserving update privacy. Existing information-theoretic problems typicall

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Towards Efficient and Exact Forgetting Services in Pre-Trained-Model-based Continual Learning

arXiv:2505.12239v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Continual Learning (CL), using a Pre-Trained Model (PTM) as the feature extractor has become a popular practice. Accompanied by analytic cl

Where Rectified Flows Leak: Characterising Membership Signals Along the Interpolation Path

arXiv:2606.07271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding what generative models retain from training data remains challenging, with implications for copyright and privacy. Beyond verbatim repro

Cognitive Threat Intelligence and Explainable Federated Security Analytics for distributed Infrastructure Systems

arXiv:2606.05701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing adoption of distributed infrastructure systems, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, and edge-based architectures ha

6 Jun 2026

Compositional Boundaries for Density Fusion

arXiv:2606.05871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed uncertainty-management systems often combine local probabilistic models along aggregation trees chosen by communication, privacy, or sched

6 Jun 2026

LLM-Conditioned Synthesis of Pathological Gaits via Structured Gait-Language Representations

arXiv:2606.06048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathological gait datasets remain scarce due to privacy, recruitment, cost, and movement variability. Our work presents a multimodal LLM-guided framewor

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5 Jun 2026

Hardware

TITAN-FedAnil+: Trust-Based Adaptive Blockchain Federated Learning for Resource-Constrained Intelligent Enterprises

arXiv:2606.04388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for collaborative intelligence while preserving data privacy. However, data heterogeneity

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4 Jun 2026

DECA: Decentralizing Block-Wise Adam for Efficient LLM Full-Parameter Fine-Tuning on Non-IID Data

arXiv:2606.03209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in privacy-sensitive and resource-constrained environments remains challenging. Since training data are often d

Geometry-Aware Tabular Diffusion

arXiv:2606.02607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular synthesis is critical for privacy-preserving sharing and augmentation, yet diffusion models rely on implicit mechanisms to capture inter-colum

ParaBlock: Communication-Computation Parallel Block Coordinate Federated Learning for Large Language Models

arXiv:2511.19959v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has been extensively studied as a privacy-preserving training paradigm. Recently, federated block coordinate descent scheme

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vLLM Semantic Router: Signal Driven Decision Routing for Mixture-of-Modality Models

arXiv:2603.04444v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) diversify across modalities, capabilities, and cost profiles, the problem of intelligent request routing -- se

Boosting Multimodal Federated Learning via Chained Modality Optimization

arXiv:2606.01856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Federated Learning (MMFL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative learning across decentralized clients with heterogeneous data and modali

Differentially Private Datastore Generation for Retrieval-Augmented Inference

arXiv:2606.01413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: It is crucial for modern on-device AI systems that rely on retrieval-augmented inference to release and share datastores without compromising individu

Federated Learning via Variational Bayesian Inference: Personalization, Sparsity and Clustering

arXiv:2303.04345v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is a promising framework that models distributed machine learning while protecting the privacy of clients. However, FL suffe

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How Hard Can It Be? Hardness-Aware Multi-Objective Unlearning

arXiv:2606.02119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific forget training data due to privacy, copyright or bias concerns while maintaining the mode

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A Pilot Study on Curator-Guided Multilingual Art Description for Blind and Low-Vision Audiences with Small Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605.31080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Blind and low-vision (BLV) audiences remain underserved by visual art descriptions, particularly across languages and in museum settings where privacy

Divergence Decoding: Inference-Time Unlearning via Auxiliary Models

arXiv:2605.31293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently memorize sensitive training data thereby creating significant privacy and copyright risks. Addressing these risk

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Gap-K%: Measuring Top-1 Prediction Gap for Detecting Pretraining Data

arXiv:2601.19936v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The opacity of massive pretraining corpora in Large Language Models (LLMs) raises significant privacy and copyright concerns, making pretraini

GETA: Generalized Encrypted Traffic Analysis

arXiv:2605.31277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional traffic analysis is being fundamentally challenged by the rapid adoption of encryption, tunnelling, and privacy-preserving protocols, whic

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Memory-Efficient Structured Backpropagation for On-Device LLM Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2602.13069v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-device fine-tuning enables privacy-preserving personalization of large language models, but mobile devices impose severe memory constraints

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Enhancing Membership Inference Attacks on Diffusion Models from a Frequency-Domain Perspective

arXiv:2505.20955v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in image generation, but they also raise significant concerns regarding privacy and copyrigh

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Agents

Error as a Lens: Probing LLM Reasoning through Synthetic Misconception Generation

arXiv:2605.29007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized tutoring, teacher training, and education research need access to targeted synthetic misconceptions, but privacy and IRB constraints make l

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Fairness-Aware Federated Learning with Trajectory Shapley Value

arXiv:2605.30336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning is an emerging distributed paradigm that addresses the challenges posed by heterogeneous, privacy-sensitive data. It enables multiple

Finding DoRI: Discovery of Retained Images in Diffusion Models

arXiv:2507.16880v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in image generation. However, concerns about data privacy and intellectu

Representation Unlearning: Forgetting through Information Compression

arXiv:2601.21564v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of specific training data from a model, a need driven by privacy regulations and robustness concern

Scalable RF Simulation in Generative 4D Worlds

arXiv:2508.12176v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Radio Frequency (RF) sensing has emerged as a powerful, privacy-preserving alternative to vision-based methods for various perception tasks. H

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Server-Proximal Aggregation for Federated Domain-Incremental Learning under Partial Participation: Task-Uniform Convergence and Backward Transfer

arXiv:2601.22274v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world federated systems seldom operate on static data: input distributions drift while privacy rules forbid raw-data sharing. We study this set

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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Targeted Routing Hijacking in Federated RAG

arXiv:2605.28112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (FedRAG) is attractive for privacy-sensitive applications because raw data remain local. As a result, routing

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28 May 2026

Black-box Membership Inference Attacks on the Pre-training Data of Image-generation Models

arXiv:2605.27020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generation models has raised serious concerns regarding potential copyright and privacy infringements i

27 May 2026

FedTreeLoRA: Reconciling Statistical and Functional Heterogeneity in Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2603.13282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a standard for privacy-preserving LLM fine-tuning. However, existing person