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Membership inference attacks (MIAs) infer whether a specific data record is used for target model training. MIAs have provoked many discussions in the information security community since they give rise to severe data privacy issues,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yu Wang , Lifu Huang , Philip S. Yu , Lichao Sun

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning as a service have become the status quo for many industries, leading to the widespread deployment of models that handle sensitive data. Well-performing models, the industry seeks,…

Machine learning models, especially deep neural networks have been shown to be susceptible to privacy attacks such as membership inference where an adversary can detect whether a data point was used for training a black-box model. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Shruti Tople , Amit Sharma , Aditya Nori

A membership inference attack (MIA) against a machine-learning model enables an attacker to determine whether a given data record was part of the model's training data or not. In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of the phenomenon of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Bogdan Kulynych , Mohammad Yaghini , Giovanni Cherubin , Michael Veale , Carmela Troncoso

While machine learning (ML) has made tremendous progress during the past decade, recent research has shown that ML models are vulnerable to various security and privacy attacks. So far, most of the attacks in this field focus on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Junhao Zhou , Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Yang Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients, such as mobile phones and IoT devices, to collaboratively train a global machine learning model while keeping their data localized. However, recent studies have revealed that the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Francesco Diana , Othmane Marfoq , Chuan Xu , Giovanni Neglia , Frédéric Giroire , Eoin Thomas

In a Membership Inference (MI) game, an attacker tries to infer whether a target point was included or not in the input of an algorithm. Existing works show that some target points are easier to identify, while others are harder. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Achraf Azize , Debabrota Basu

Neural network pruning has been an essential technique to reduce the computation and memory requirements for using deep neural networks for resource-constrained devices. Most existing research focuses primarily on balancing the sparsity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xiaoyong Yuan , Lan Zhang

We propose new privacy attacks to infer attributes (e.g., locations, occupations, and interests) of online social network users. Our attacks leverage seemingly innocent user information that is publicly available in online social networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Bin Liu

We present two information leakage attacks that outperform previous work on membership inference against generative models. The first attack allows membership inference without assumptions on the type of the generative model. Contrary to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Benjamin Hilprecht , Martin Härterich , Daniel Bernau

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against machine learning (ML) models aim to determine whether a given data point was part of the model training data. These attacks may pose significant privacy risks to individuals whose sensitive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mona Khalil , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Najeeb Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

Large genomic datasets are now created through numerous activities, including recreational genealogical investigations, biomedical research, and clinical care. At the same time, genomic data has become valuable for reuse beyond their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Zhiyu Wan , Bradley A. Malin , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Text-to-image generation models have recently attracted unprecedented attention as they unlatch imaginative applications in all areas of life. However, developing such models requires huge amounts of data that might contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

It is critical to understand the privacy and robustness vulnerabilities of machine learning models, as their implementation expands in scope. In membership inference attacks, adversaries can determine whether a particular set of data was…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Michael Lomnitz , Nina Lopatina , Paul Gamble , Zigfried Hampel-Arias , Lucas Tindall , Felipe A. Mejia , Maria Alejandra Barrios

Federated learning algorithms are developed both for efficiency reasons and to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of personal and business data, respectively. Despite no data being shared explicitly, recent studies showed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Balázs Pejó , Gergely Biczók

Machine learning models are vulnerable to data inference attacks, such as membership inference and model inversion attacks. In these types of breaches, an adversary attempts to infer a data record's membership in a dataset or even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Dayong Ye , Sheng Shen , Tianqing Zhu , Bo Liu , Wanlei Zhou

Modern machine learning (ML) ecosystems offer a surging number of ML frameworks and code repositories that can greatly facilitate the development of ML models. Today, even ordinary data holders who are not ML experts can apply off-the-shelf…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zitao Chen , Karthik Pattabiraman

Rank aggregation with pairwise comparisons has shown promising results in elections, sports competitions, recommendations, and information retrieval. However, little attention has been paid to the security issue of such algorithms, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Jinshan Zeng , Guorong Li , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Deep ensemble learning has been shown to improve accuracy by training multiple neural networks and averaging their outputs. Ensemble learning has also been suggested to defend against membership inference attacks that undermine privacy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shahbaz Rezaei , Zubair Shafiq , Xin Liu