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Adversary Resilient Learned Bloom Filters

Authors:
Ghada Almashaqbeh , University of Connecticut
Allison Bishop , City College of New York & Proof Trading
Hayder Tirmazi , City College of New York
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Conference: ASIACRYPT 2025
Abstract: A learned Bloom filter (LBF) combines a classical Bloom filter (CBF) with a learning model to reduce the amount of memory needed to represent a given set while achieving a target false positive rate (FPR). Provable security against adaptive adversaries that advertently attempt to increase FPR has been studied for CBFs, but not for LBFs. In this paper, we close this gap and show how to achieve adaptive security for LBFs. In particular, we define several adaptive security notions capturing varying degrees of adversarial control, including full and partial adaptivity, in addition to LBF extensions of existing adversarial models for CBFs, including the Always-Bet and Bet-or-Pass notions. We propose two secure LBF constructions, PRP-LBF and Cuckoo-LBF, and formally prove their security under these models assuming the existence of one-way functions. Based on our analysis and use case evaluations, our constructions achieve strong security guarantees while maintaining competitive FPR and memory overhead.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{asiacrypt-2025-35923,
  title={Adversary Resilient Learned Bloom Filters},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Ghada Almashaqbeh and Allison Bishop and Hayder Tirmazi},
  year=2025
}