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Semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages both labeled and unlabeled data to train machine learning (ML) models. State-of-the-art SSL methods can achieve comparable performance to supervised learning by leveraging much fewer labeled data.…

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Distribution inference, sometimes called property inference, infers statistical properties about a training set from access to a model trained on that data. Distribution inference attacks can pose serious risks when models are trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Anshuman Suri , David Evans

Membership inference determines, given a sample and trained parameters of a machine learning model, whether the sample was part of the training set. In this paper, we derive the optimal strategy for membership inference with a few…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-30 Alexandre Sablayrolles , Matthijs Douze , Yann Ollivier , Cordelia Schmid , Hervé Jégou

Membership inference attacks serves as useful tool for fair use of language models, such as detecting potential copyright infringement and auditing data leakage. However, many current state-of-the-art attacks require access to models'…

In several jurisdictions, the regulatory framework on the release and sharing of personal data is being extended to machine learning (ML). The implicit assumption is that disclosing a trained ML model entails a privacy risk for any personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Josep Domingo-Ferrer

The high cost of model training makes it increasingly desirable to develop techniques for unlearning. These techniques seek to remove the influence of a training example without having to retrain the model from scratch. Intuitively, once a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jamie Hayes , Ilia Shumailov , Eleni Triantafillou , Amr Khalifa , Nicolas Papernot

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

Training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive data has become a popular practice, driving innovation in ever-expanding fields. This has opened the door to new attacks that can have serious privacy implications. One such attack, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Thomas Humphries , Simon Oya , Lindsey Tulloch , Matthew Rafuse , Ian Goldberg , Urs Hengartner , Florian Kerschbaum

The membership inference problem for publicly released statistics from a private dataset is well-studied. When developing and formally analyzing attack strategies, however, the focus has been on attacks that model the population using only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lisa Oakley , Sam Stites , Cameron Moy , Steven Holtzen , Alina Oprea , Marco Gaboardi

A Membership Inference Attack (MIA) assesses how much a trained machine learning model reveals about its training data by determining whether specific query instances were included in the dataset. We classify existing MIAs into adaptive or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuntao Du , Jiacheng Li , Yuetian Chen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Zhizhen Yuan , Hanshen Xiao , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

With the emergence of new evaluation metrics and attack methodologies for Membership Inference Attacks (MIA), it becomes essential to reevaluate previously accepted assumptions. In this paper, we revisit the longstanding debate regarding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Fateme Rahmani , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Previous studies have developed fairness methods for biased models that exhibit discriminatory behaviors towards specific subgroups. While these models have shown promise in achieving fair predictions, recent research has identified their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Huan Tian , Guangsheng Zhang , Bo Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Ming Ding , Wanlei Zhou

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) reveal whether specific data was used to train machine learning models, serving as important tools for privacy auditing and compliance assessment. Recent studies have reported that MIAs perform only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Disha Makhija , Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan , Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar , Rashmi Gangadharaiah

Membership inference attacks allow adversaries to determine whether a particular example was contained in the model's training dataset. While previous works have confirmed the feasibility of such attacks in various applications, none has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Guangke Chen , Yedi Zhang , Fu Song

Machine learning models, in particular deep neural networks, are currently an integral part of various applications, from healthcare to finance. However, using sensitive data to train these models raises concerns about privacy and security.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Haonan Shi , Tu Ouyang , An Wang

The integration of machine learning (ML) in numerous critical applications introduces a range of privacy concerns for individuals who provide their datasets for model training. One such privacy risk is Membership Inference (MI), in which an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Harsh Chaudhari , Giorgio Severi , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman

Machine learning algorithms, when applied to sensitive data, pose a distinct threat to privacy. A growing body of prior work demonstrates that models produced by these algorithms may leak specific private information in the training data to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Samuel Yeom , Irene Giacomelli , Matt Fredrikson , Somesh Jha

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in tasks related to perception and control, there are still several unresolved concerns regarding the privacy of their training data, particularly in the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Andrey V. Galichin , Mikhail Pautov , Alexey Zhavoronkin , Oleg Y. Rogov , Ivan Oseledets

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has triggered legal and ethical concerns, especially regarding the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials in their training datasets. This has led to lawsuits against tech companies accused of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Cédric Eichler , Nathan Champeil , Nicolas Anciaux , Alexandra Bensamoun , Heber Hwang Arcolezi , José Maria De Fuentes

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in the real world has come with a rise in copyright cases against companies for training their models on unlicensed data from the internet. Recent works have presented methods to identify if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Pratyush Maini , Hengrui Jia , Nicolas Papernot , Adam Dziedzic