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With the wide-spread application of machine learning models, it has become critical to study the potential data leakage of models trained on sensitive data. Recently, various membership inference (MI) attacks are proposed to determine if a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Shahbaz Rezaei , Xin Liu

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a sample was part of a model's training set, posing serious privacy risks for modern machine-learning systems. Existing MIAs primarily rely on static indicators, such as loss or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Amit Kravchik Taub , Fred M. Grabovski , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

Recommender systems have been successfully applied in many applications. Nonetheless, recent studies demonstrate that recommender systems are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), leading to the leakage of users' membership…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaoxiao Chi , Xuyun Zhang , Yan Wang , Lianyong Qi , Amin Beheshti , Xiaolong Xu , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Shuo Wang , Hongsheng Hu

Large language models (LLMs) based recommender systems (RecSys) can adapt to different domains flexibly. It utilizes in-context learning (ICL), i.e., prompts, to customize the recommendation functions, which include sensitive historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jiajie He , Min-Chun Chen , Xintong Chen , Xinyang Fang , Yuechun Gu , Keke Chen

Machine learning models are prone to memorizing sensitive data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks in which an adversary aims to infer whether an input sample was used to train the model. Over the past few years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xinlei He , Zheng Li , Weilin Xu , Cory Cornelius , Yang Zhang

The prosperity of machine learning has also brought people's concerns about data privacy. Among them, inference attacks can implement privacy breaches in various MLaaS scenarios and model training/prediction phases. Specifically, inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Feng Wu , Lei Cui , Shaowen Yao , Shui Yu

Data privacy is an important issue for "machine learning as a service" providers. We focus on the problem of membership inference attacks: given a data sample and black-box access to a model's API, determine whether the sample existed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Sorami Hisamoto , Matt Post , Kevin Duh

The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generation models has raised serious concerns regarding potential copyright and privacy infringements involving human-created data. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) have emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tao Qi , Huili Wang , Yuanhong Huang , Wendan Wang , Lianchao Zhao , Jinrui Wang , Zichen Qin , Shangguang Wang , Yongfeng Huang

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) aim to estimate whether a specific data point was used in the training of a given model. Existing state-of-the-art attacks typically rely on training multiple reference models to approximate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhenlong Liu , Wenyu Jiang , Feng Zhou , Hongxin Wei

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 (MIAs) against machine learning models can lead to serious privacy risks for the training dataset used in the model training. In this paper, we propose a novel and effective Neuron-Guided Defense method named…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Nuo Xu , Binghui Wang , Ran Ran , Wujie Wen , Parv Venkitasubramaniam

Diffusion-based generative models have shown great potential for image synthesis, but there is a lack of research on the security and privacy risks they may pose. In this paper, we investigate the vulnerability of diffusion models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jinhao Duan , Fei Kong , Shiqi Wang , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely adopted to analyse non-Euclidean data, such as chemical networks, brain networks, and social networks, modelling complex relationships and interdependency between objects. Recently, Membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bang Wu , Xiangwen Yang , Shirui Pan , Xingliang Yuan

Large capacity machine learning (ML) models are prone to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer whether the target sample is a member of the target model's training dataset. The serious privacy concerns due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging solution to the data scarcity problem for training deep learning models in hardware assurance. While FL is designed to enhance privacy by not sharing raw data, it remains vulnerable to Membership…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gijung Lee , Wavid Bowman , Olivia P. Dizon-Paradis , Reiner N. Dizon-Paradis , Ronald Wilson , Damon L. Woodard , Domenic Forte

Member inference (MI) attacks aim to determine if a specific data sample was used to train a machine learning model. Thus, MI is a major privacy threat to models trained on private sensitive data, such as medical records. In MI attacks one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Gilad Cohen , Raja Giryes

A large body of research has shown that machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference (MI) attacks that violate the privacy of the participants in the training data. Most MI research focuses on the case of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Matthew Jagielski , Stanley Wu , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman , Roxana Geambasu

Large Language Models (LLMs) utilize large amounts of data for their training, some of which may come from copyrighted sources. Membership Inference Attacks (MIA) aim to detect those documents and whether they have been included in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Juliusz Janicki , Savvas Chamezopoulos , Evangelos Kanoulas , Georgios Tsatsaronis

The arms race between attacks and defenses for machine learning models has come to a forefront in recent years, in both the security community and the privacy community. However, one big limitation of previous research is that the security…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-27 Liwei Song , Reza Shokri , Prateek Mittal

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