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Dimitar Iliev Dimitrov

10 accepted papers

2025

GRAIN: Exact Graph Reconstruction from Gradients

ICLR 2025poster

Federated learning claims to enable collaborative model training among multiple clients with data privacy by transmitting gradient updates instead of the actual client data. However, recent studies have shown the client privacy is still at risk due to the, so called, gradient inversion attacks which…

2025

MixAT: Combining Continuous and Discrete Adversarial Training for LLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Despite recent efforts in Large Language Model (LLM) safety and alignment, current adversarial attacks on frontier LLMs can still consistently force harmful generations. Although adversarial training has been widely studied and shown to significantly improve the robustness of traditional machine le…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

DAGER: Exact Gradient Inversion for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Federated learning works by aggregating locally computed gradients from multiple clients, thus enabling collaborative training without sharing private client data. However, prior work has shown that the data can actually be recovered by the server using so-called gradient inversion attacks. While th…

2024

Hiding in Plain Sight: Disguising Data Stealing Attacks in Federated Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Malicious server (MS) attacks have enabled the scaling of data stealing in federated learning to large batch sizes and secure aggregation, settings previously considered private. However, many concerns regarding the client-side detectability of MS attacks were raised, questioning their practicality.…

2024

SPEAR: Exact Gradient Inversion of Batches in Federated Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Federated learning is a framework for collaborative machine learning where clients only share gradient updates and not their private data with a server. However, it was recently shown that gradient inversion attacks can reconstruct this data from the shared gradients. In the important honest-but-cur…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

FARE: Provably Fair Representation Learning with Practical Certificates

ICML 2023poster

Fair representation learning (FRL) is a popular class of methods aiming to produce fair classifiers via data preprocessing. Recent regulatory directives stress the need for FRL methods that provide practical certificates, i.e., provable upper bounds on the unfairness of any downstream classifier tra…

2023

TabLeak: Tabular Data Leakage in Federated Learning

ICML 2023poster

While federated learning (FL) promises to preserve privacy, recent works in the image and text domains have shown that training updates leak private client data. However, most high-stakes applications of FL (e.g., in healthcare and finance) use tabular data, where the risk of data leakage has not ye…

2022

Bayesian Framework for Gradient Leakage

ICLR 2022poster

Federated learning is an established method for training machine learning models without sharing training data. However, recent work has shown that it cannot guarantee data privacy as shared gradients can still leak sensitive information. To formalize the problem of gradient leakage, we propose a th…

2022

LAMP: Extracting Text from Gradients with Language Model Priors

NeurIPS 2022accept

Recent work shows that sensitive user data can be reconstructed from gradient updates, breaking the key privacy promise of federated learning. While success was demonstrated primarily on image data, these methods do not directly transfer to other domains such as text. In this work, we propose LAMP,…