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Generative Adversarial Networks: A Survey Toward Private and Secure Applications

Cai, Zhipeng, Xiong, Zuobin, Xu, Honghui, Wang, Peng, Li, Wei, Pan, Yi·2022·ACM Computing Surveys

Abstract

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have promoted a variety of applications in computer vision and natural language processing, among others, due to its generative model’s compelling ability to generate realistic examples plausibly drawn from an existing distribution of samples. GAN not only provides impressive performance on data generation-based tasks but also stimulates fertilization for privacy and security oriented research because of its game theoretic optimization strategy. Unfortunately, there are no comprehensive surveys on GAN in privacy and security, which motivates this survey to summarize systematically. The existing works are classified into proper categories based on privacy and security functions, and this survey conducts a comprehensive analysis of their advantages and drawbacks. Considering that GAN in privacy and security is still at a very initial stage and has imposed unique challenges that are yet to be well addressed, this article also sheds light on some potential privacy and security applications with GAN and elaborates on some future research directions.

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  • Generative adversarial networks can be used to address increasing privacy concerns and strengthen privacy regulations in various applications, including medical image analysis.

    “It highlights how GANs can be used to address increasing privacy concerns and strengthen privacy regulations in various applications, including medical image analysis.”
  • In privacy and security models using generative adversarial networks, the generator can be modeled as an attacker aiming to fool a defender or as a defender resisting a powerful attacker.

    “In the privacy and security models using GANs, the generator can be modeled in two ways: (1) as an attacker aiming to fool a defender (the discriminator) to simulate an attack scenario and (2) as a defender resisting a powerful attacker (the discriminator) to simulate a defense scenario.”
  • The adversarial training characteristic of generative adversarial networks allows them to investigate privacy and security issues without predetermined assumptions about opponents' capabilities.

    “The unique feature of GANs in this context is their adversarial training characteristic, which allows them to investigate privacy and security issues without predetermined assumptions about opponents’ capabilities.”

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Authors
Cai, Z., Xiong, Z., Xu, H., Wang, P., Li, W., & Pan, Y.
Affiliations
  • Georgia State University (US)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Venue
ACM Computing Surveys
Published
2021-07-13
Volume
54
Issue
6
Pages
1-38
ISSN
  • 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7341
OpenAlex
W3177624059
Cited by
376
References
115
Citations by year
2026: 39 · 2025: 72 · 2024: 68 · 2023: 73 · 2022: 73 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1
FWCI
23.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
ACM Computing Surveys (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (1741277, 1829674, 1704287, and 2011845)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Keywords
generative adversarial networks, privacy-preserving machine learning, data generation, game-theoretic optimization, adversarial training, privacy-preserving data generation

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