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A large body of research has shown that machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference (MI) attacks that violate the privacy of the participants in the training data. Most MI research focuses on the case of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Matthew Jagielski , Stanley Wu , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman , Roxana Geambasu

Label smoothing -- using softened labels instead of hard ones -- is a widely adopted regularization method for deep learning, showing diverse benefits such as enhanced generalization and calibration. Its implications for preserving model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against Diffusion Models (DMs) raise pressing privacy concerns by revealing whether a sample was part of the training set. While existing methods typically rely on measuring reconstruction error across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mingxing Rao , Bowen Qu , Daniel Moyer

Growing concerns over data privacy and security highlight the importance of machine unlearning--removing specific data influences from trained models without full retraining. Techniques like Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Cheng-Long Wang , Qi Li , Zihang Xiang , Yinzhi Cao , Di Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while keeping training data localized, allowing us to preserve privacy in various domains including remote sensing. However, recent studies show that FL models may still leak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anh-Kiet Duong , Petra Gomez-Krämer , Hoàng-Ân Lê , Minh-Tan Pham

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) serve as a fundamental auditing tool for evaluating training data leakage in machine learning models. However, existing methodologies predominantly rely on static, handcrafted heuristics that lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ruhao Liu , Weiqi Huang , Qi Li , Xinchao Wang

With the widespread application of large language models (LLM), concerns about the privacy leakage of model training data have increasingly become a focus. Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have emerged as a critical tool for evaluating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zichen Song , Sitan Huang , Zhongfeng Kang

Generative models based on the Flow Matching objective, particularly Rectified Flow, have emerged as a dominant paradigm for efficient, high-fidelity image synthesis. However, while existing research heavily prioritizes generation quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingxing Rao , Daniel Moyer

This paper presents how to leak private information from a wireless signal classifier by launching an over-the-air membership inference attack (MIA). As machine learning (ML) algorithms are used to process wireless signals to make decisions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Yi Shi , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu

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

Given a trained model and a data sample, membership-inference (MI) attacks predict whether the sample was in the model's training set. A common countermeasure against MI attacks is to utilize differential privacy (DP) during model training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Saeed Mahloujifar , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Graham Cormode , Somesh Jha

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been driven by extensive datasets that may contain sensitive information, raising serious privacy concerns. One notable threat is the Membership Inference Attack (MIA), where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yihan Liao , Jacky Keung , Xiaoxue Ma , Jingyu Zhang , Yicheng Sun

Quantifying the impact of individual data samples on machine learning models is an open research problem. This is particularly relevant when complex and high-dimensional relationships have to be learned from a limited sample of the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dmitrii Usynin , Moritz Knolle , Georgios Kaissis

Transfer learning (TL) has been demonstrated to improve DNN model performance when faced with a scarcity of training samples. However, the suitability of TL as a solution to reduce vulnerability of overfitted DNNs to privacy attacks is…

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) act as a crucial auditing tool for the opaque training data of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing techniques predominantly rely on inaccessible model internals (e.g., logits) or suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jiatong Yi , Yanyang Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) derive their capabilities from extensive training on vast corpora of visual and textual data. Empowered by large-scale parameters, these models often exhibit strong memorization of their training data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jinhua Yin , Peiru Yang , Chen Yang , Huili Wang , Zhiyang Hu , Shangguang Wang , Yongfeng Huang , Tao Qi

Recently issued data privacy regulations like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) grant individuals the right to be forgotten. In the context of machine learning, this requires a model to forget about a training data sample if…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Hongsheng Hu , Zoran Salcic , Gillian Dobbie , Jinjun Chen , Lichao Sun , Xuyun Zhang

Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are pivotal for creating fine-grained learner profiles in modern intelligent education platforms. However, these models are trained on sensitive student data, raising significant privacy concerns. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingliang Hou , Yinuo Wang , Teng Guo , Zitao Liu , Wenzhou Dou , Jiaqi Zheng , Renqiang Luo , Mi Tian , Weiqi Luo

Recently, diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating tasks, including image and audio generation. However, like other generative models, diffusion models are prone to privacy issues. In this paper, we propose an…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Fei Kong , Jinhao Duan , RuiPeng Ma , Hengtao Shen , Xiaofeng Zhu , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

Model Inversion Attacks (MIAs) aim to reconstruct private training data from models, leading to privacy leakage, particularly in facial recognition systems. Although many studies have enhanced the effectiveness of white-box MIAs, less…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ziang Li , Hongguang Zhang , Juan Wang , Meihui Chen , Hongxin Hu , Wenzhe Yi , Xiaoyang Xu , Mengda Yang , Chenjun Ma