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The pervasive deployment of deep learning models across critical domains has concurrently intensified privacy concerns due to their inherent propensity for data memorization. While Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) serve as the gold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chihan Huang , Huaijin Wang , Shuai Wang

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against machine learning models can lead to serious privacy risks for the training dataset used in the model training. In this paper, we propose a novel and effective Neuron-Guided Defense method named…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Nuo Xu , Binghui Wang , Ran Ran , Wujie Wen , Parv Venkitasubramaniam

Knowledge distillation in neural networks refers to compressing a large model or dataset into a smaller version of itself. We introduce Privacy Distillation, a framework that allows a text-to-image generative model to teach another model…

Membership inference attacks are a key measure to evaluate privacy leakage in machine learning (ML) models. These attacks aim to distinguish training members from non-members by exploiting differential behavior of the models on member and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xinyu Tang , Saeed Mahloujifar , Liwei Song , Virat Shejwalkar , Milad Nasr , Amir Houmansadr , Prateek Mittal

A membership inference attack (MIA) against a machine-learning model enables an attacker to determine whether a given data record was part of the model's training data or not. In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of the phenomenon of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Bogdan Kulynych , Mohammad Yaghini , Giovanni Cherubin , Michael Veale , Carmela Troncoso

Traditional machine learning (ML) raises serious privacy concerns, while federated learning (FL) mitigates the risk of data leakage by keeping data on local devices. However, the training process of FL can still leak sensitive information,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Heqing Ren , Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas , Burkhard Stiller

Machine learning (ML) models have been widely applied to various applications, including image classification, text generation, audio recognition, and graph data analysis. However, recent studies have shown that ML models are vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Hongsheng Hu , Zoran Salcic , Lichao Sun , Gillian Dobbie , Philip S. Yu , Xuyun Zhang

In recent years, diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in the field of image generation, becoming the stateof-the-art technology for AI-based image processing applications. Despite the numerous benefits brought by recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Derui Zhu , Dingfan Chen , Jens Grossklags , Mario Fritz

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…

In Embedding-as-an-Interface (EaaI) settings, pre-trained models are queried for Intermediate Representations (IRs). The distributional properties of IRs can leak training-set membership signals, enabling Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Chen Hou , Guolong Zheng , Hong Chen

Diffusion models have attracted significant attention due to its exceptional data generation capabilities in fields such as image synthesis. However, recent studies have shown that diffusion models are vulnerable to copyright infringement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhixiang Guo , Siyuan Liang , Aishan Liu , Dacheng Tao

Privacy protection has become a top priority as the proliferation of AI techniques has led to widespread collection and misuse of personal data. Anonymization and visual identity information hiding are two important facial privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Recently, diffusion models have become popular tools for image synthesis because of their high-quality outputs. However, like other large-scale models, they may leak private information about their training data. Here, we demonstrate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shuai Tang , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Sergul Aydore , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth

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 advancements in diffusion models have enabled high-fidelity and photorealistic image generation across diverse applications. However, these models also present security and privacy risks, including copyright violations, sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiacheng Shi , Yanfu Zhang , Huajie Shao , Ashley Gao

As a long-term threat to the privacy of training data, membership inference attacks (MIAs) emerge ubiquitously in machine learning models. Existing works evidence strong connection between the distinguishability of the training and testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Dingfan Chen , Ning Yu , Mario Fritz

Deep learning models often raise privacy concerns as they leak information about their training data. This enables an adversary to determine whether a data point was in a model's training set by conducting a membership inference attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yigitcan Kaya , Sanghyun Hong , Tudor Dumitras

The success of deep neural networks has driven numerous research studies and applications from Euclidean to non-Euclidean data. However, there are increasing concerns about privacy leakage, as these networks rely on processing private data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhanke Zhou , Jianing Zhu , Fengfei Yu , Xuan Li , Xiong Peng , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han

Model Inversion (MI) attacks aim to recover the private training data from the target model, which has raised security concerns about the deployment of DNNs in practice. Recent advances in generative adversarial models have rendered them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Gege Qi , YueFeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Binyuan Hui , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

Synthetic data generation plays an important role in enabling data sharing, particularly in sensitive domains like healthcare and finance. Recent advances in diffusion models have made it possible to generate realistic, high-quality tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eyal German , Daniel Samira , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai