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We study the membership inference (MI) attack against classifiers, where the attacker's goal is to determine whether a data instance was used for training the classifier. Through systematic cataloging of existing MI attacks and extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Jiacheng Li , Ninghui Li , Bruno Ribeiro

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on massive web-scale corpora, raising growing concerns about privacy and copyright. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a given example was used during training. Existing LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ravi Ranjan , Utkarsh Grover , Xiaomin Lin , Agoritsa Polyzou

Model inversion attacks (MIAs) aim to reconstruct private images from a target classifier's training set, thereby raising privacy concerns in AI applications. Previous GAN-based MIAs tend to suffer from inferior generative fidelity due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Ouxiang Li , Yanbin Hao , Zhicai Wang , Bin Zhu , Shuo Wang , Zaixi Zhang , Fuli Feng

While Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are the prevailing method for identifying training data, their application has expanded into privacy auditing and machine unlearning. Nevertheless, the field lacks a systematic framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ding Chen , Xinwen Cheng , Xuyang Zhong , Xinping Chen , Xiaolin Huang , Chen Liu

Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs). Although various defenses have been proposed, there is still substantial room for improvement in the privacy-utility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuefeng Peng , Ali Naseh , Amir Houmansadr

Neural models for vulnerability prediction (VP) have achieved impressive performance by learning from large-scale code repositories. However, their susceptibility to Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs), where adversaries aim to infer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yihan Liao , Jacky Keung , Xiaoxue Ma , Jingyu Zhang , Yicheng Sun

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

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are becoming standard tools for auditing the privacy of machine learning models. The leading attacks -- LiRA (Carlini et al., 2022) and RMIA (Zarifzadeh et al., 2024) -- appear to use distinct scoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Rickard Brännvall

Diffusion models are the leading approach for tabular data synthesis and are increasingly used to share sensitive records. Whether they actually protect privacy has become a pressing question. Membership inference attacks are the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Abtin Mahyar , Masoumeh Shafieinejad , Yuhan Liu , Xi He

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a specific data point was part of a model's training set, serving as effective tools for evaluating privacy leakage of vision models. However, existing MIAs implicitly assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ruize Gao , Kaiwen Zhou , Yongqiang Chen , Feng Liu

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

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

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) pose a significant privacy risk by enabling adversaries to determine if a specific data point was part of a model's training set. This work empirically investigates whether MU algorithms can function as a…

The large model size, high computational operations, and vulnerability against membership inference attack (MIA) have impeded deep learning or deep neural networks (DNNs) popularity, especially on mobile devices. To address the challenge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yijue Wang , Chenghong Wang , Zigeng Wang , Shanglin Zhou , Hang Liu , Jinbo Bi , Caiwen Ding , Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for graph-structured data but are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs) in graph classification tasks, which determine if a graph was part of the training dataset, potentially causing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiazhu Dai , Yubing Lu

Federated learning (FL) is a popular approach to facilitate privacy-aware machine learning since it allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without granting others access to their private data. It is, however, known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Hongsheng Hu , Xuyun Zhang , Zoran Salcic , Lichao Sun , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Gillian Dobbie

This study investigates the privacy risks associated with diffusion-based synthetic tabular data generation methods, focusing on their susceptibility to Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs). We examine two recent models, TabDDPM and TabSyn,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Peini Cheng , Amir Bahmani

Whether LLMs memorize their training data and what this means, from measuring privacy leakage to detecting copyright violations, has become a rapidly growing area of research. In the last few months, more than 10 new methods have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Matthieu Meeus , Igor Shilov , Shubham Jain , Manuel Faysse , Marek Rei , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

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

Recently, adapting the idea of self-supervised learning (SSL) on continuous speech has started gaining attention. SSL models pre-trained on a huge amount of unlabeled audio can generate general-purpose representations that benefit a wide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Wei-Tsung Kao , Hung-yi Lee