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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

With the widespread application of artificial intelligence technologies in face recognition and other fields, data privacy security issues have received extensive attention, especially the \textit{right to be forgotten} emphasized by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Weidong Zheng , Kongyang Chen , Yao Huang , Yuanwei Guo , Yatie Xiao

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

Differential Privacy (DP) is the de facto standard for reasoning about the privacy guarantees of a training algorithm. Despite the empirical observation that DP reduces the vulnerability of models to existing membership inference (MI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anvith Thudi , Ilia Shumailov , Franziska Boenisch , Nicolas Papernot

The privacy of machine learning models has become a significant concern in many emerging Machine-Learning-as-a-Service applications, where prediction services based on well-trained models are offered to users via pay-per-query. The lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xun Xian , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

With the rapid advancements of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models, various practical applications have emerged, bringing significant convenience to society. However, model developers may misuse the unauthorized data to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Qiao Li , Xiaomeng Fu , Xi Wang , Jin Liu , Xingyu Gao , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han

Authentication systems are vulnerable to model inversion attacks where an adversary is able to approximate the inverse of a target machine learning model. Biometric models are a prime candidate for this type of attack. This is because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Sohaib Ahmad , Benjamin Fuller , Kaleel Mahmood

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit powerful capabilities but risk memorizing sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) from their training data, posing significant privacy concerns. While machine unlearning techniques aim to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xinjie Zhou , Zhihui Yang , Lechao Cheng , Sai Wu , Gang Chen

Model memorization has implications for both the generalization capacity of machine learning models and the privacy of their training data. This paper investigates label memorization in binary classification models through two novel passive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mohammad Wahiduzzaman Khan , Sheng Chen , Ilya Mironov , Leizhen Zhang , Rabib Noor

The growing use of large language models in sensitive domains has exposed a critical weakness: the inability to ensure that private information can be permanently forgotten. Yet these systems still lack reliable mechanisms to guarantee that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 James Jin Kang , Dang Bui , Thanh Pham , Huo-Chong Ling

Diffusion models have been remarkably successful in data synthesis. However, when these models are applied to sensitive datasets, such as banking and human face data, they might bring up severe privacy concerns. This work systematically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Hailong Hu , Jun Pang

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…

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

Property inference attacks against machine learning (ML) models aim to infer properties of the training data that are unrelated to the primary task of the model, and have so far been formulated as binary decision problems, i.e., whether or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Raksha Ramakrishna , György Dán

Machine learning models are vulnerable to simple model stealing attacks if the adversary can obtain output labels for chosen inputs. To protect against these attacks, it has been proposed to limit the information provided to the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Taesung Lee , Benjamin Edwards , Ian Molloy , Dong Su

Membership inference attacks aim to infer whether a data record has been used to train a target model by observing its predictions. In sensitive domains such as healthcare, this can constitute a severe privacy violation. In this work we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tomas Chobola , Dmitrii Usynin , Georgios Kaissis

The rapid adoption of deep learning in sensitive domains has brought tremendous benefits. However, this widespread adoption has also given rise to serious vulnerabilities, particularly model inversion (MI) attacks, posing a significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Wencheng Yang , Song Wang , Di Wu , Taotao Cai , Yanming Zhu , Shicheng Wei , Yiying Zhang , Xu Yang , Zhaohui Tang , Yan Li

We consider membership inference attacks, one of the main privacy issues in machine learning. These recently developed attacks have been proven successful in determining, with confidence better than a random guess, whether a given sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Rauf Izmailov , Peter Lin , Chris Mesterharm , Samyadeep Basu

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to remove target training data from a trained model so that the removed data no longer influences the model's behavior, fulfilling "right to be forgotten" obligations under data privacy laws. Yet, we observe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jaeung Lee , Suhyeon Yu , Yurim Jang , Simon S. Woo , Jaemin Jo

The advances in machine learning (ML) have greatly improved AI-based diagnosis aid systems in medical imaging. However, being based on collecting medical data specific to individuals induces several security issues, especially in terms of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Mounia Hamidouche , Reda Bellafqira , Gwenolé Quellec , Gouenou Coatrieux