spml2024

Security and Privacy in Machine Learning Sharif University of Technology, Iran CE Department Fall 2024

Welcome to the public page for the course on Security and Privacy in Machine Learning (SPML). The main objectives of the course are to introduce students to the principles of security and privacy in machine learning. The students become familiar with the vulnerabilities of machine learning in the training and inference phases and the methods to improve the robustness and privacy of machine learning models.

Course Logistics

Time: Sun. & Tues. 15:00 - 16:30
Location: CE-201 & vc.sharif.edu/ch/amsadeghzadeh
Contact: Announcements and all course-related questions will happen on the Quera forum.
- All official announcements and communication will happen over Quera.
- For external enquiries, emergencies, or personal matters that you don’t wish to put in a private post, you can email me at sadeghzadeh_at_sharif_dot_edu

Instructor

   Amir Mahdi Sadeghzadeh
   Office: CE-704    Lab: CE-502    Office Hours: By appointment (through Email)
   Email: amsadeghzadeh_at_gmail.com
   URL: amsadeghzadeh.github.io

Course Staff

Ali Abdollahi (Head Course Assistant) - Email: aliabdollahi024a_at_gmail.com
Ali Javeri (Head Course Assistant) - Email: ajaveri1378_at_gmail.com
Alireza Sakhaei (Course Assistant) - Email: alirezasakhaeirad_at_gmail.com
Raoof Zare Moayedi (Course Assistant) - Email: raoofmoayedi2000_at_gmail.com
Matin Alinejad (Course Assistant) - Email: matin.alnj_at_gmail.com
Mohammad Reza Mirbagheri (Course Assistant) - Email: rezamirbagheri110_at_gmail.com
Ramtin Moslemi (Course Assistant) - Email: ramtin4moslemi_at_gmail.com

Course Pages

spml2024.github.io -> Course information, syllabus, and materials.
Quera (Get the password from course staff) -> Announcements, assignments, and all course-related questions.

Main References

The main references for the course are many research papers in top-tier conferences and journals in computer security (SP, CCS, Usenix Security, EuroSP) and machine learning (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ECCV). Three following books are used for presenting background topics in machine learning and deep learning in the first part of the course.

Grading Policy

Assignments (30%), Mid-term (and Mini-exam) (20%), Papers review and presentation(20%), and Final (30%).

Course Policy

This course considers topics involving personal and public privacy and security. As part of this investigation we will cover technologies whose abuse may infringe on the rights of others. As an instructor, I rely on the ethical use of these technologies. Unethical use may include circumvention of existing security or privacy measurements for any purpose, or the dissemination, promotion, or exploitation of vulnerabilities of these services. Exceptions to these guidelines may occur in the process of reporting vulnerabilities through public and authoritative channels. Any activity outside the letter or spirit of these guidelines will be reported to the proper authorities and may result in dismissal from the class. When in doubt, please contact the instructor for advice. Do not undertake any action which could be perceived as technology misuse anywhere and/or under any circumstances unless you have received explicit permission from Dr. Sadeghzadeh.

Academic Honesty

Sharif CE Department Honor Code (please read it carefully!)

Homework Submission

Submit your answers in .pdf or .zip file in course page on Quera website, with the following format: HW[HW#]-[FamilyName]-[std#] (For example HW3-Hoseini-401234567)

Late Policy

All students have 14 free late days for the assignments.
You may use up to 5 late days per assignment with no penalty.
Once you have exhausted your free late days, we will deduct a late penalty of 20% per additional late day.

#	Date	Topic	Content	Lecture	Reading
1	7/1	Course Intro.	The scope and contents of the course	Lec1	Towards the Science of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning
2	7/3	Deep Learning Review	ML Intro., Perceptron, Logistic regression, GD, Regularization	Lec2	Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Ch.1 & Ch.4 Deep Learning Ch.5 & Ch.6
3	7/8	Deep Learning Review	Softmax Classifier, Neural networks	Lec3	Deep Learning Ch.6, ch.8 & Ch.9 The Neural Network, A Visual Introduction Why are neural networks so effective?
4	7/10	Deep Learning Review	Forward and backward propagation, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)	Lec4	Deep Learning Ch.6 & ch.9 Dive into Deep Learning Ch. 8 Backpropagation for a Linear Layer What is backpropagation really doing?
5	7/15	Adversarial Examples	AE Generating Methods	Lec5	Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks
6	7/17	Adversarial Examples	AE Generating Methods	Lec6	Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
7	7/22	Adversarial Examples	AE Generating Methods	Lec7	Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks
8	7/24	Adversarial Examples	AE Generating Methods	Lec8	Universal Adversarial Perturbations Adversarial Patch
9	8/29	Adversarial Examples	Defenses Against AEs	Lec9	Towards Deep Learning Models Resistant to Adversarial Attacks Obfuscated Gradients Give a False Sense of Security: Circumventing Defenses to Adversarial Examples
10	8/1
11	8/6	Adversarial Examples	Defenses Against AEs	Lec10	Certified Adversarial Robustness via Randomized Smoothing Provably robust deep learning via adversarially trained smoothed classifiers
12	8/8	Adversarial Examples	Defenses Against AEs	Lec11	Certified Adversarial Robustness via Randomized Smoothing Provably robust deep learning via adversarially trained smoothed classifiers Practical Black-Box Attacks against Machine Learning
13	8/13	Adversarial Examples	Black-box AEs	Lec12	ZOO: Zeroth Order Optimization Based Black-box Attacks to Deep Neural Networks without Training Substitute Models Black-box Adversarial Attacks with Limited Queries and Information
14	8/15	Adversarial Examples	Black-box AEs - Data Poisoning	Lec13	Black-box Adversarial Attacks with Limited Queries and Information BadNets: Identifying Vulnerabilities in the Machine Learning Model Supply Chain Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks
15	8/20	Poisoning	Poisoning	Lec14	Poison Frogs! Targeted Clean-Label Poisoning Attacks on Neural Networks Deep Partition Aggregation: Provable Defense against General Poisoning Attacks

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