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Membership inference (MI) attacks threaten user privacy through determining if a given data example has been used to train a target model. However, it has been increasingly recognized that the "comparing different MI attacks" methodology…

Increasing use of machine learning (ML) technologies in privacy-sensitive domains such as medical diagnoses, lifestyle predictions, and business decisions highlights the need to better understand if these ML technologies are introducing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shagufta Mehnaz , Sayanton V. Dibbo , Ehsanul Kabir , Ninghui Li , Elisa Bertino

Differentially private training algorithms provide protection against one of the most popular attacks in machine learning: the membership inference attack. However, these privacy algorithms incur a loss of the model's classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jiaxiang Liu , Simon Oya , Florian Kerschbaum

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a critical threat to the privacy of training data in deep learning. Despite significant progress in attack methodologies, our understanding of when and how models encode membership information during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuetian Chen , Zhiqi Wang , Nathalie Baracaldo , Swanand Ravindra Kadhe , Lei Yu

When building machine learning models using sensitive data, organizations should ensure that the data processed in such systems is adequately protected. For projects involving machine learning on personal data, Article 35 of the GDPR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Reza Shokri

Large-scale pre-trained models are increasingly adapted to downstream tasks through a new paradigm called prompt learning. In contrast to fine-tuning, prompt learning does not update the pre-trained model's parameters. Instead, it only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yixin Wu , Rui Wen , Michael Backes , Pascal Berrang , Mathias Humbert , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

With the development of information science and technology, various industries have generated massive amounts of data, and machine learning is widely used in the analysis of big data. However, if the privacy of machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Jingyi Ge

While significant research advances have been made in the field of deep reinforcement learning, there have been no concrete adversarial attack strategies in literature tailored for studying the vulnerability of deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Maziar Gomrokchi , Susan Amin , Hossein Aboutalebi , Alexander Wong , Doina Precup

Purveyors of malicious network attacks continue to increase the complexity and the sophistication of their techniques, and their ability to evade detection continues to improve as well. Hence, intrusion detection systems must also evolve to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Ahmed Shafee , Mohamed Baza , Douglas A. Talbert , Mostafa M. Fouda , Mahmoud Nabil , Mohamed Mahmoud

In the context of machine unlearning, the primary challenge lies in effectively removing traces of private data from trained models while maintaining model performance and security against privacy attacks like membership inference attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tao Huang , Ziyang Chen , Jiayang Meng , Qingyu Huang , Xu Yang , Xun Yi , Ibrahim Khalil

It is critical to understand the privacy and robustness vulnerabilities of machine learning models, as their implementation expands in scope. In membership inference attacks, adversaries can determine whether a particular set of data was…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Michael Lomnitz , Nina Lopatina , Paul Gamble , Zigfried Hampel-Arias , Lucas Tindall , Felipe A. Mejia , Maria Alejandra Barrios

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages both labeled and unlabeled data to train machine learning (ML) models. State-of-the-art SSL methods can achieve comparable performance to supervised learning by leveraging much fewer labeled data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Xinlei He , Hongbin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

Generative models estimate the underlying distribution of a dataset to generate realistic samples according to that distribution. In this paper, we present the first membership inference attacks against generative models: given a data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jamie Hayes , Luca Melis , George Danezis , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a significant threat to the privacy of machine learning models and are widely used as tools for privacy assessment, auditing, and machine unlearning. While prior MIA research has primarily focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zhiqi Wang , Chengyu Zhang , Yuetian Chen , Nathalie Baracaldo , Swanand Kadhe , Lei Yu

Today's success of state of the art methods for semantic segmentation is driven by large datasets. Data is considered an important asset that needs to be protected, as the collection and annotation of such datasets comes at significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yang He , Shadi Rahimian , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference attack, which can be used to determine whether a given sample appears in the training data. Most existing methods assume the attacker has full access to the features of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xurun Wang , Guangrui Liu , Xinjie Li , Haoyu He , Lin Yao , Zhongyun Hua , Weizhe Zhang

The membership inference attack (MIA) is a popular paradigm for compromising the privacy of a machine learning (ML) model. MIA exploits the natural inclination of ML models to overfit upon the training data. MIAs are trained to distinguish…

Collaborative machine learning and related techniques such as federated learning allow multiple participants, each with his own training dataset, to build a joint model by training locally and periodically exchanging model updates. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Luca Melis , Congzheng Song , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Vitaly Shmatikov

Privacy attacks on machine learning models aim to identify the data that is used to train such models. Such attacks, traditionally, are studied on static models that are trained once and are accessible by the adversary. Motivated to meet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Ji Gao , Sanjam Garg , Mohammad Mahmoody , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Recently, the membership inference attack poses a serious threat to the privacy of confidential training data of machine learning models. This paper proposes a novel adversarial example based privacy-preserving technique (AEPPT), which adds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingfu Xue , Chengxiang Yuan , Can He , Zhiyu Wu , Yushu Zhang , Zhe Liu , Weiqiang Liu