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All prior membership inference attacks for fine-tuned language models use hand-crafted heuristics (e.g., loss thresholding, Min-K\%, reference calibration), each bounded by the designer's intuition. We introduce the first transferable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 David Ilić , Kostadin Cvejoski , David Stanojević , Evgeny Grigorenko

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) aim to predict whether a data sample belongs to the model's training set or not. Although prior research has extensively explored MIAs in Large Language Models (LLMs), they typically require accessing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yu He , Boheng Li , Liu Liu , Zhongjie Ba , Wei Dong , Yiming Li , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren , Chun Chen

Membership Inference Attacks (MIA) enable to empirically assess the privacy of a machine learning algorithm. In this paper, we propose TAMIS, a novel MIA against differentially-private synthetic data generation methods that rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Paul Andrey , Batiste Le Bars , Marc Tommasi

While person Re-identification (Re-ID) has progressed rapidly due to its wide real-world applications, it also causes severe risks of leaking personal information from training data. Thus, this paper focuses on quantifying this risk by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Junyao Gao , Xinyang Jiang , Huishuai Zhang , Yifan Yang , Shuguang Dou , Dongsheng Li , Duoqian Miao , Cheng Deng , Cairong Zhao

While Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are the prevailing method for identifying training data, their application has expanded into privacy auditing and machine unlearning. Nevertheless, the field lacks a systematic framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ding Chen , Xinwen Cheng , Xuyang Zhong , Xinping Chen , Xiaolin Huang , Chen Liu

Model explanations improve the transparency of black-box machine learning (ML) models and their decisions; however, they can also be exploited to carry out privacy threats such as membership inference attacks (MIA). Existing works have only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Kavita Kumari , Murtuza Jadliwala , Sumit Kumar Jha , Anindya Maiti

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) have become the standard tool for evaluating privacy leakage in machine learning (ML). Among them, the Likelihood-Ratio Attack (LiRA) is widely regarded as the state of the art when sufficient shadow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Najeeb Jebreel , Mona Khalil , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Determining which data samples were used to train a model, known as Membership Inference Attack (MIA), is a well-studied and important problem with implications on data privacy. SotA methods (which are black-box attacks) rely on training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yuval Golbari , Navve Wasserman , Gal Vardi , Michal Irani

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while keeping training data localized, allowing us to preserve privacy in various domains including remote sensing. However, recent studies show that FL models may still leak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anh-Kiet Duong , Petra Gomez-Krämer , Hoàng-Ân Lê , Minh-Tan Pham

Machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference attack, which can be used to determine whether a given sample appears in the training data. Most existing methods assume the attacker has full access to the features of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xurun Wang , Guangrui Liu , Xinjie Li , Haoyu He , Lin Yao , Zhongyun Hua , Weizhe Zhang

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) serve as a fundamental auditing tool for evaluating training data leakage in machine learning models. However, existing methodologies predominantly rely on static, handcrafted heuristics that lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ruhao Liu , Weiqi Huang , Qi Li , Xinchao Wang

As a long-term threat to the privacy of training data, membership inference attacks (MIAs) emerge ubiquitously in machine learning models. Existing works evidence strong connection between the distinguishability of the training and testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Dingfan Chen , Ning Yu , Mario Fritz

Deep Learning (DL) techniques allow ones to train models from a dataset to solve tasks. DL has attracted much interest given its fancy performance and potential market value, while security issues are amongst the most colossal concerns.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hongwei Huang , Weiqi Luo , Guoqiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Yue Zhang , Anjia Yang

Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are pivotal for creating fine-grained learner profiles in modern intelligent education platforms. However, these models are trained on sensitive student data, raising significant privacy concerns. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingliang Hou , Yinuo Wang , Teng Guo , Zitao Liu , Wenzhou Dou , Jiaqi Zheng , Renqiang Luo , Mi Tian , Weiqi Luo

Recently, adapting the idea of self-supervised learning (SSL) on continuous speech has started gaining attention. SSL models pre-trained on a huge amount of unlabeled audio can generate general-purpose representations that benefit a wide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Wei-Tsung Kao , Hung-yi Lee

As large language models (LLMs) are trained on increasingly opaque corpora, membership inference attacks (MIAs) have been proposed to audit whether copyrighted texts were used during training, despite growing concerns about their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Murat Bilgehan Ertan , Emirhan Böge , Min Chen , Kaleel Mahmood , Marten van Dijk

Ensuring the privacy of research participants is vital, even more so in healthcare environments. Deep learning approaches to neuroimaging require large datasets, and this often necessitates sharing data between multiple sites, which is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-04 Umang Gupta , Dimitris Stripelis , Pradeep K. Lam , Paul M. Thompson , José Luis Ambite , Greg Ver Steeg

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), inspired by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), aggregate the message of nodes' neighbors and structure information to acquire expressive representations of nodes for node classification, graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Mauro Conti , Jiaxin Li , Stjepan Picek , Jing Xu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for graph-structured data but are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs) in graph classification tasks, which determine if a graph was part of the training dataset, potentially causing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiazhu Dai , Yubing Lu