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We are excited to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the <b>Red Teaming Competition at SaTML'25</b>, titled "<b>Inference Attacks Against Document VQA</b>", which focuses on privacy vulnerabilities in Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA)
models. The deadlines have been extended! </div>
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This competition presents a unique opportunity to explore critical privacy concerns in AI, specifically through the development of membership inference and reconstruction attacks tailored to DocVQA models.</div>
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We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this announcement with anyone in your network who might be interested in participating.<br>
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More details, including competition rules and registration, can be found on the official website:
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Deadlines:</div>
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<b>Submission Deadline</b>: March 7, 2025</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: 15px;">
<b>Announcement of Winning Teams</b>: March 17, 2025</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: 15px;">
<b>Competition Track</b>: April 9-11, 2025 (during SaTML’25)</li></ul>
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For any inquiries or further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at
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We look forward to your participation and the innovative solutions you will bring to this critical area of AI privacy research.<br>
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The competition is organized by the<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://elsa-ai.eu/" target="_blank" id="OWAb4420500-75a2-429e-6efb-420b69a91420" class="OWAAutoLink" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://elsa-ai.eu/&source=gmail&ust=1740833708659000&usg=AOvVaw0T7FCmvDjCVBq3RY_mkymx" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"> European
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