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This research proposes a novel architectural layer using code division modulation to address catastrophic forgetting and membership inference attacks in continual learning-based gait identification systems. By integrating this mechanism, the study demonstrates improved robustness against privacy threats without requiring data replay or compromising model accuracy across tasks. The work represents significant progress at the intersection of machine learning stability and security for biometric applications.
Code Division Modulation Layers Against Forgetting and Inference in Continual Gait Identification
arXiv:2607.19122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning (CL) has been recently employed in biometric identification systems thanks to its ability to integrate new knowledge within a pre-trained model and to the possibility of reducing the computational cost of training. Unfortunately, such approaches pose new challenges both in terms of final accuracy and privacy guarantees since a progressive fine-tuning of the model on small subsets expose them to catastrophic forgetting and successful inference attacks. This paper evaluates the efficiency of code division modulation layers (CDML) on a gait identification system which has been trained following a continual learning policy. The proposed approach preserves accuracy on all the tasks while mitigating membership inference attacks at the same time. Moreover, the impact of retransmission is minimized since replaying data is not necessary.
Abstract:Continual learning (CL) has been recently employed in biometric identification systems thanks to its ability to integrate new knowledge within a pre-trained model and to the possibility of reducing the computational cost of training. Unfortunately, such approaches pose new challenges both in terms of final accuracy and privacy guarantees since a progressive fine-tuning of the model on small subsets expose them to catastrophic forgetting and successful inference attacks. This paper evaluates the efficiency of code division modulation layers (CDML) on a gait identification system which has been trained following a continual learning policy. The proposed approach preserves accuracy on all the tasks while mitigating membership inference attacks at the same time. Moreover, the impact of retransmission is minimized since replaying data is not necessary.
Multimedia (cs.MM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
arXiv:2607.19122 [cs.MM]
(or arXiv:2607.19122v1 [cs.MM] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.19122 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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