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An over-the-air membership inference attack (MIA) is presented to leak private information from a wireless signal classifier. Machine learning (ML) provides powerful means to classify wireless signals, e.g., for PHY-layer authentication. As…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a specific example was used to train a given language model. While prior work has explored prompt-based attacks such as ReCALL, these methods rely heavily on the assumption that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Gyuwan Kim , Yang Li , Evangelia Spiliopoulou , Jie Ma , William Yang Wang

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

How much does a machine learning algorithm leak about its training data, and why? Membership inference attacks are used as an auditing tool to quantify this leakage. In this paper, we present a comprehensive \textit{hypothesis testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jiayuan Ye , Aadyaa Maddi , Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Vincent Bindschaedler , Reza Shokri

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

A membership inference attack (MIA) poses privacy risks for the training data of a machine learning model. With an MIA, an attacker guesses if the target data are a member of the training dataset. The state-of-the-art defense against MIAs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rishav Chourasia , Batnyam Enkhtaivan , Kunihiro Ito , Junki Mori , Isamu Teranishi , Hikaru Tsuchida

Unlike traditional static deep neural networks (DNNs), dynamic neural networks (NNs) adjust their structures or parameters to different inputs to guarantee accuracy and computational efficiency. Meanwhile, it has been an emerging research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Pan Li , Peizhuo Lv , Shenchen Zhu , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen

Membership inference (MI) attacks highlight a privacy weakness in present stochastic training methods for neural networks. It is not well understood, however, why they arise. Are they a natural consequence of imperfect generalization only?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Teodora Baluta , Shiqi Shen , S. Hitarth , Shruti Tople , Prateek Saxena

We quantitatively investigate how machine learning models leak information about the individual data records on which they were trained. We focus on the basic membership inference attack: given a data record and black-box access to a model,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Reza Shokri , Marco Stronati , Congzheng Song , Vitaly Shmatikov

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are widely used to empirically assess privacy risks in machine learning models, both providing model-level vulnerability metrics and identifying the most vulnerable training samples. State-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Joseph Pollock , Igor Shilov , Euodia Dodd , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

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

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach for training machine learning models on decentralized data while preserving privacy. However, privacy risks, particularly Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs), which aim to determine whether a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Gongxi Zhu , Donghao Li , Hanlin Gu , Yuan Yao , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han

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

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

Federated Learning enables collaborative learning among clients via a coordinating server while avoiding direct data sharing, offering a perceived solution to preserve privacy. However, recent studies on Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Quan Nguyen , Minh N. Vu , Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

Recent work shows membership inference attacks (MIAs) on large language models (LLMs) produce inconclusive results, partly due to difficulties in creating non-member datasets without temporal shifts. While researchers have turned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ali Naseh , Niloofar Mireshghallah

Membership inference attack (MIA) poses a significant privacy threat in federated learning (FL) as it allows adversaries to determine whether a client's private dataset contains a specific data sample. While defenses against membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Quan Minh Nguyen , Min-Seon Kim , Hoang M. Ngo , Trong Nghia Hoang , Hyuk-Yoon Kwon , My T. Thai

The state-of-the-art for membership inference attacks on machine learning models is a class of attacks based on shadow models that mimic the behavior of the target model on subsets of held-out nonmember data. However, we find that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pratiksha Thaker , Neil Kale , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

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

Synthetic data generators and machine learning models can memorize their training data, posing privacy concerns. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are a standard method of estimating the privacy risk of these systems. The risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nataša Krčo , Florent Guépin , Matthieu Meeus , Bogdan Kulynych , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye