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Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are widely used to assess the privacy risks associated with machine learning models. However, when these attacks are applied to pre-trained large language models (LLMs), they encounter significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Meng Tong , Yuntao Du , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Ninghui Li

We introduce a new class of attacks on machine learning models. We show that an adversary who can poison a training dataset can cause models trained on this dataset to leak significant private details of training points belonging to other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Florian Tramèr , Reza Shokri , Ayrton San Joaquin , Hoang Le , Matthew Jagielski , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini

Natural language processing models have experienced a significant upsurge in recent years, with numerous applications being built upon them. Many of these applications require fine-tuning generic base models on customized, proprietary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Guy Amit , Abigail Goldsteen , Ariel Farkash

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on massive data capture rich information embedded in the training data. However, this also introduces the risk of privacy leakage, particularly involving personally identifiable information (PII).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wenshuo Dong , Qingsong Yang , Shu Yang , Lijie Hu , Meng Ding , Wanyu Lin , Tianhang Zheng , Di Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) embed sensitive, human-generated data, prompting the need for unlearning methods. Although certified unlearning offers strong privacy guarantees, its restrictive assumptions make it unsuitable for LLMs, giving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rongzhe Wei , Mufei Li , Mohsen Ghassemi , Eleonora Kreačić , Yifan Li , Xiang Yue , Bo Li , Vamsi K. Potluru , Pan Li , Eli Chien

Information theoretic leakage metrics quantify the amount of information about a private random variable $X$ that is leaked through a correlated revealed variable $Y$. They can be used to evaluate the privacy of a system in which an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Sophie Taylor , Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Justin P. Coon

Ensuring privacy during inference stage is crucial to prevent malicious third parties from reconstructing users' private inputs from outputs of public models. Despite a large body of literature on privacy preserving learning (which ensures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Fengwei Tian , Ravi Tandon

The foreseen growing role of outsourced machine learning services is raising concerns about the privacy of user data. Several technical solutions are being proposed to address the issue. Hardware security modules in cloud data centres…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Marc Joye , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

We adopt an information-theoretic framework to analyze the generalization behavior of the class of iterative, noisy learning algorithms. This class is particularly suitable for study under information-theoretic metrics as the algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Ibrahim Issa , Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar

Quantizing machine learning models has demonstrated its effectiveness in lowering memory and inference costs while maintaining performance levels comparable to those of the original models. In this work, we investigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Eric Aubinais , Philippe Formont , Pablo Piantanida , Elisabeth Gassiat

Privacy preserving in machine learning is a crucial issue in industry informatics since data used for training in industries usually contain sensitive information. Existing differentially private machine learning algorithms have not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Ping Xiong , Huan Huo , Zahir Tari , Wanlei Zhou

Membership inference attack (MIA) has become one of the most widely used and effective methods for evaluating the privacy risks of machine learning models. These attacks aim to determine whether a specific sample is part of the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jing Xue , Zhishen Sun , Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Xiangyu Chang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Machine learning (ML) models benefit from large datasets. Collecting data in biomedical domains is costly and challenging, hence, combining datasets has become a common practice. However, datasets obtained under different conditions could…

We consider the problem of publicly releasing a dataset for support vector machine classification while not infringing on the privacy of data subjects (i.e., individuals whose private information is stored in the dataset). The dataset is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Farhad Farokhi

Large data collections required for the training of neural networks often contain sensitive information such as the medical histories of patients, and the privacy of the training data must be preserved. In this paper, we introduce a dropout…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-06 Beyza Ermis , Ali Taylan Cemgil

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed natural language understanding and generation, but they raise privacy concerns due to potential exposure of sensitive information. Studies have highlighted the risk of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bishnu Bhusal , Manoj Acharya , Ramneet Kaur , Colin Samplawski , Anirban Roy , Adam D. Cobb , Rohit Chadha , Susmit Jha

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a significant threat to the privacy of machine learning models and are widely used as tools for privacy assessment, auditing, and machine unlearning. While prior MIA research has primarily focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zhiqi Wang , Chengyu Zhang , Yuetian Chen , Nathalie Baracaldo , Swanand Kadhe , Lei Yu

How can agents exchange information to learn while protecting privacy? Healthcare centers collaborating on clinical trials must balance knowledge sharing with safeguarding sensitive patient data. We address this challenge by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

The problem of publishing privacy-guaranteed data for hypothesis testing is studied using the maximal leakage (ML) as a metric for privacy and the type-II error exponent as the utility metric. The optimal mechanism (random mapping) that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar , Flavio P. Calmon , Vincent Y. F. Tan

With an increase in low-cost machine learning APIs, advanced machine learning models may be trained on private datasets and monetized by providing them as a service. However, privacy researchers have demonstrated that these models may leak…