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Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) pose a significant privacy risk by enabling adversaries to determine if a specific data point was part of a model's training set. This work empirically investigates whether MU algorithms can function as a…

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a critical threat to the privacy of training data in deep learning. Despite significant progress in attack methodologies, our understanding of when and how models encode membership information during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuetian Chen , Zhiqi Wang , Nathalie Baracaldo , Swanand Ravindra Kadhe , Lei Yu

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) have emerged as the standard tool for evaluating the privacy risks of AI models. However, state-of-the-art attacks require training numerous, often computationally expensive, reference models, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Euodia Dodd , Nataša Krčo , Igor Shilov , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

The raise of machine learning and deep learning led to significant improvement in several domains. This change is supported by both the dramatic rise in computation power and the collection of large datasets. Such massive datasets often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hamid Jalalzai , Elie Kadoche , Rémi Leluc , Vincent Plassier

In a membership inference attack, an attacker aims to infer whether a data sample is in a target classifier's training dataset or not. Specifically, given a black-box access to the target classifier, the attacker trains a binary classifier,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Jinyuan Jia , Ahmed Salem , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Machine learning poses severe privacy concerns as it has been shown that the learned models can reveal sensitive information about their training data. Many works have investigated the effect of widely adopted data augmentation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiao Li , Qiongxiu Li , Zhanhao Hu , Xiaolin Hu

Given a trained model and a data sample, membership-inference (MI) attacks predict whether the sample was in the model's training set. A common countermeasure against MI attacks is to utilize differential privacy (DP) during model training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Saeed Mahloujifar , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Graham Cormode , Somesh Jha

Recommender systems (RecSys) have been widely applied to various applications, including E-commerce, finance, healthcare, social media and have become increasingly influential in shaping user behavior and decision-making, highlighting their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jiajie He , Xintong Chen , Xinyang Fang , Min-Chun Chen , Yuechun Gu , Keke Chen

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) and increasingly stringent privacy regulations, protecting data privacy in LLMs has become essential, especially for privacy-sensitive applications. Membership Inference Attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Md Tasnim Jawad , Mingyan Xiao , Yanzhao Wu

Machine learning models leak information about the datasets on which they are trained. An adversary can build an algorithm to trace the individual members of a model's training dataset. As a fundamental inference attack, he aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Milad Nasr , Reza Shokri , Amir Houmansadr

This report summarizes all the MIA experiments (Membership Inference Attacks) of the Embedding Attack Project, including threat models, experimental setup, experimental results, findings and discussion. Current results cover the evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jiameng Pu , Zafar Takhirov

Learned recommender systems may inadvertently leak information about their training data, leading to privacy violations. We investigate privacy threats faced by recommender systems through the lens of membership inference. In such attacks,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zihan Wang , Na Huang , Fei Sun , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Hengliang Luo , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Machine learning (ML) has been widely adopted in various privacy-critical applications, e.g., face recognition and medical image analysis. However, recent research has shown that ML models are vulnerable to attacks against their training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Zheng Li , Yang Zhang

Machine learning models can leak information regarding the dataset they have trained. In this paper, we present the first membership inference attack against black-boxed object detection models that determines whether the given data records…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yeachan Park , Myungjoo Kang

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against Diffusion Models (DMs) raise pressing privacy concerns by revealing whether a sample was part of the training set. While existing methods typically rely on measuring reconstruction error across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mingxing Rao , Bowen Qu , Daniel Moyer

Machine learning models can inadvertently expose confidential properties of their training data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIA). While numerous evaluation methods exist, many require computationally expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Richard J. Preen , Jim Smith

Membership inference attack is one of the most popular privacy attacks in machine learning, which aims to predict whether a given sample was contained in the target model's training set. Label-only membership inference attack is a variant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 JiaCheng Xu , ChengXiang Tan

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based image-generative models, the quality of generated images has become increasingly photorealistic. Moreover, with the release of high-quality pre-trained image-generative models, a growing number…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yan Pang , Tianhao Wang

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are critical tools for assessing privacy risks and ensuring compliance with regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, their potential for auditing unauthorized use of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Depeng Chen , Hao Chen , Hulin Jin , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong

Multi-domain graph pre-training has emerged as a pivotal technique in developing graph foundation models. While it greatly improves the generalization of graph neural networks, its privacy risks under membership inference attacks (MIAs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiayi Luo , Qingyun Sun , Yuecen Wei , Haonan Yuan , Xingcheng Fu , Jianxin Li