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A surprising phenomenon in modern machine learning is the ability of a highly overparameterized model to generalize well (small error on the test data) even when it is trained to memorize the training data (zero error on the training data).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-01 Jasper Tan , Blake Mason , Hamid Javadi , Richard G. Baraniuk

Membership inference attacks seek to infer membership of individual training instances of a model to which an adversary has black-box access through a machine learning-as-a-service API. In providing an in-depth characterization of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Lei Yu , Wenqi Wei

Membership inference (MI) attack is currently the most popular test for measuring privacy leakage in machine learning models. Given a machine learning model, a data point and some auxiliary information, the goal of an MI attack is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Zhifeng Kong , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) adds noise to gradients in back-propagation, safeguarding training data from privacy leakage, particularly membership inference. It fails to cover (inference-time) threats like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Minxin Du , Xiang Yue , Sherman S. M. Chow , Tianhao Wang , Chenyu Huang , Huan Sun

Generative machine learning models are being increasingly viewed as a way to share sensitive data between institutions. While there has been work on developing differentially private generative modeling approaches, these approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yixi Xu , Sumit Mukherjee , Xiyang Liu , Shruti Tople , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used to protect training data in machine learning. Its privacy guarantee is commonly analyzed through a security game in which an adversary infers whether a target record…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wenhao Wang , Shujie Cui , Hui Cui , Xingliang Yuan

The wide deployment of machine learning in recent years gives rise to a great demand for large-scale and high-dimensional data, for which the privacy raises serious concern. Differential privacy (DP) mechanisms are conventionally developed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Jungang Yang , Liyao Xiang , Weiting Li , Wei Liu , Xinbing Wang

Machine learning models can leak private information about their training data. The standard methods to measure this privacy risk, based on membership inference attacks (MIAs), only check if a given data point \textit{exactly} matches a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jiashu Tao , Reza Shokri

Tabular data typically contains private and important information; thus, precautions must be taken before they are shared with others. Although several methods (e.g., differential privacy and k-anonymity) have been proposed to prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jihyeon Hyeong , Jayoung Kim , Noseong Park , Sushil Jajodia

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) pose a serious threat to the privacy of machine learning models by allowing adversaries to determine whether a specific data sample was included in the training set. Although federated learning (FL) is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mohammad Zare , Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki

Membership inference attacks aim to detect if a particular data point was used in training a model. We design a novel statistical test to perform robust membership inference attacks (RMIA) with low computational overhead. We achieve this by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-13 Sajjad Zarifzadeh , Philippe Liu , Reza Shokri

Membership inference attack is one of the most popular privacy attacks in machine learning, which aims to predict whether a given sample was contained in the target model's training set. Label-only membership inference attack is a variant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 JiaCheng Xu , ChengXiang Tan

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) infer whether a specific data record is used for target model training. MIAs have provoked many discussions in the information security community since they give rise to severe data privacy issues,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yu Wang , Lifu Huang , Philip S. Yu , Lichao Sun

Tabular data sharing under privacy constraints is increasingly important for research and collaboration. Synthetic data generators (SDGs) are a promising solution, but synthetic data remains vulnerable to attacks, such as membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Davide Scassola , Andrea Coser , Sebastiano Saccani

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

Machine learning models can be trained with formal privacy guarantees via differentially private optimizers such as DP-SGD. In this work, we focus on a threat model where the adversary has access only to the final model, with no visibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tudor Cebere , Aurélien Bellet , Nicolas Papernot

Ensuring privacy during inference stage is crucial to prevent malicious third parties from reconstructing users' private inputs from outputs of public models. Despite a large body of literature on privacy preserving learning (which ensures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Fengwei Tian , Ravi Tandon

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