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Machine unlearning (MU) is essential for enforcing the right to be forgotten in machine learning systems. A key challenge of MU is how to reliably audit whether a model has truly forgotten specified training data. Membership Inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jialong Sun , Zeming Wei , Jiaxuan Zou , Jiacheng Gong , Jie Fu , Chengyang Dong , Heng Xu , Jialong Li , Bo Liu

The rise of generative image models leads to privacy concerns when it comes to the huge datasets used to train such models. This paper investigates the possibility of inferring if a set of face images was used for fine-tuning a Latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lauritz Christian Holme , Anton Mosquera Storgaard , Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli

Generative AI systems are quickly improving, now able to produce believable output in several modalities including images, text, and audio. However, this fast development has prompted increased scrutiny concerning user privacy and the use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Kurtis Chow , Omar Samiullah , Vinesh Sridhar , Hewen Zhang

We develop practical and theoretically grounded membership inference attacks (MIAs) against both independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data and graph-structured data. Building on the Bayesian decision-theoretic framework of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Marcus Lassila , Johan Östman , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Training a machine learning model with data following a meaningful order, i.e., from easy to hard, has been proven to be effective in accelerating the training process and achieving better model performance. The key enabling technique is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Joann Qiongna Chen , Xinlei He , Zheng Li , Yang Zhang , Zhou Li

OpenLVLM-MIA is a new benchmark that highlights fundamental challenges in evaluating membership inference attacks (MIA) against large vision-language models (LVLMs). While prior work has reported high attack success rates, our analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ryoto Miyamoto , Xin Fan , Fuyuko Kido , Tsuneo Matsumoto , Hayato Yamana

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

Large capacity machine learning (ML) models are prone to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer whether the target sample is a member of the target model's training dataset. The serious privacy concerns due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr

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) 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

The raise of machine learning and deep learning led to significant improvement in several domains. This change is supported by both the dramatic rise in computation power and the collection of large datasets. Such massive datasets often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hamid Jalalzai , Elie Kadoche , Rémi Leluc , Vincent Plassier

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

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising privacy-aware paradigm that allows multiple clients to jointly train a model without sharing their private data. Recently, many studies have shown that FL is vulnerable to membership…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hongsheng Hu , Zoran Salcic , Lichao Sun , Gillian Dobbie , Xuyun Zhang

A membership inference attack allows an adversary to query a trained machine learning model to predict whether or not a particular example was contained in the model's training dataset. These attacks are currently evaluated using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Nicholas Carlini , Steve Chien , Milad Nasr , Shuang Song , Andreas Terzis , Florian Tramer

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) represent a promising alternative to autoregressive language models, using bidirectional masked token prediction. Yet their susceptibility to privacy leakage via Membership Inference Attacks (MIA) remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuetian Chen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Yuntao Du , Edoardo Stoppa , Charles Fleming , Ashish Kundu , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

In Member Inference (MI) attacks, the adversary try to determine whether an instance is used to train a machine learning (ML) model. MI attacks are a major privacy concern when using private data to train ML models. Most MI attacks in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jiacheng Li , Ninghui Li , Bruno Ribeiro

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

Machine learning models are susceptible to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer whether a sample is in the training set. Existing work utilizes gradient ascent to enlarge the loss variance of training data, alleviating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhenlong Liu , Lei Feng , Huiping Zhuang , Xiaofeng Cao , Hongxin Wei

Machine learning algorithms, when applied to sensitive data, pose a potential threat to privacy. A growing body of prior work has demonstrated that membership inference attack (MIA) can disclose specific private information in the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Bo Zhang , Ruotong Yu , Haipei Sun , Yanying Li , Jun Xu , Hui Wang

This paper focuses on the challenge of machine unlearning, aiming to remove the influence of specific training data on machine learning models. Traditionally, the development of unlearning algorithms runs parallel with that of membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zonglin Di , Sixie Yu , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Yang Liu