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Tianwei Song
dblp:414/8301
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0001-9911-8134ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 50% Privacy and data protection · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Privacy and data protection › privacy-preserving machine learning
data protection against unauthorized training |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | T2UE: Generating Unlearnable Examples from Text Descriptions · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › poisoning attack
unlearnable examples |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | T2UE: Generating Unlearnable Examples from Text Descriptions · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
text-to-image model · 0.9error minimization · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | T2UE: Generating Unlearnable Examples from Text DescriptionsabstractLarge-scale pre-training frameworks like CLIP have revolutionized multimodal learning, but their reliance on web-scraped datasets, frequently containing private user data, raises serious concerns about misuse. Unlearnable Examples (UEs) have emerged as a promising countermeasure against unauthorized model training, employing carefully crafted unlearnable noise to disrupt the learning of meaningful representations from protected data. Current approaches typically generate UEs by jointly optimizing unlearnable noise for both images and their associated text descriptions (or labels). However, this optimization process is often computationally prohibitive for on-device execution, forcing reliance on external third-party services. This creates a fundamental privacy paradox: users must initially expose their data to these very services to achieve protection, thereby compromising privacy in the process. Such a contradiction has severely hindered the development of practical, scalable data protection solutions. To resolve this paradox, we introduce Text-to-Unlearnable Example (T2UE), a novel framework that enables users to generate UEs using only text descriptions. T2UE circumvents the need for original image data by employing a text-to-image (T2I) model to map text descriptions into the image (noise) space, combined with an error-minimization framework to produce effective unlearnable noise. Extensive experiments show that T2UE-protected data substantially degrades performance in downstream tasks (e.g., cross-modal retrieval) for state-of-the-art models. Notably, the protective effect generalizes across diverse architectures and even to supervised learning settings. Our work demonstrates the feasibility of ''zero-contact data protection'', where personal data can be safeguarded based solely on their textual descriptions, eliminating the need for direct data exposure. Xingjun Ma, Hanxun Huang, Tianwei Song, Ye Sun 0004, Yifeng Gao 0002, Yu-Gang Jiang 0001 |
ACM Multimedia | 3 |