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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

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

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

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a data sample was included in a machine learning (ML) model's training set and have become the de facto standard for measuring privacy leakages in ML. We propose an evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Najeeb Jebreel , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Tabular data typically contains private and important information; thus, precautions must be taken before they are shared with others. Although several methods (e.g., differential privacy and k-anonymity) have been proposed to prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jihyeon Hyeong , Jayoung Kim , Noseong Park , Sushil Jajodia

Machine learning models require datasets for effective training, but directly sharing raw data poses significant privacy risk such as membership inference attacks (MIA). To mitigate the risk, privacy-preserving techniques such as data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Yin , Guangquan Zhang , Hua Zuo , Jie Lu

Multi-domain graph pre-training has emerged as a pivotal technique in developing graph foundation models. While it greatly improves the generalization of graph neural networks, its privacy risks under membership inference attacks (MIAs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiayi Luo , Qingyun Sun , Yuecen Wei , Haonan Yuan , Xingcheng Fu , Jianxin Li

Recent work shows membership inference attacks (MIAs) on large language models (LLMs) produce inconclusive results, partly due to difficulties in creating non-member datasets without temporal shifts. While researchers have turned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ali Naseh , Niloofar Mireshghallah

Deep learning models have an intrinsic privacy issue as they memorize parts of their training data, creating a privacy leakage. Membership Inference Attacks (MIA) exploit it to obtain confidential information about the data used for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Daniel Jiménez-López , Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

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…

Generative models are subject to overfitting and thus may potentially leak sensitive information from the training data. In this work. we investigate the privacy risks that can potentially arise from the use of generative adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Abdallah Alshantti , Adil Rasheed , Frank Westad

Machine learning models can leak private information about their training data. The standard methods to measure this privacy risk, based on membership inference attacks (MIAs), only check if a given data point \textit{exactly} matches a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jiashu Tao , Reza Shokri

Social platforms such as Reddit have a network of communities of shared interests, with a prevalence of posts and comments from which one can infer users' Personal Information Identifiers (PIIs). While such self-disclosures can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shalini Jangra , Suparna De , Nishanth Sastry , Saeed Fadaei

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether specific data were used to train a model. While extensively studied on classification models, their impact on time series forecasting remains largely unexplored. We address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nicolas Johansson , Tobias Olsson , Daniel Nilsson , Johan Östman , Fazeleh Hoseini

Synthetic data is often presented as a method for sharing sensitive information in a privacy-preserving manner by reproducing the global statistical properties of the original data without disclosing sensitive information about any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Matteo Giomi , Franziska Boenisch , Christoph Wehmeyer , Borbála Tasnádi

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

There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

Privacy is an important concern for our society where sharing data with partners or releasing data to the public is a frequent occurrence. Some of the techniques that are being used to achieve privacy are to remove identifiers, alter…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Noseong Park , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Kshitij Gorde , Sushil Jajodia , Hongkyu Park , Youngmin Kim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)-synthesized table publishing lets people privately learn insights without access to the private table. However, existing studies on Membership Inference (MI) Attacks show promising results on disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Aoting Hu , Renjie Xie , Zhigang Lu , Aiqun Hu , Minhui Xue

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) and increasingly stringent privacy regulations, protecting data privacy in LLMs has become essential, especially for privacy-sensitive applications. Membership Inference Attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Md Tasnim Jawad , Mingyan Xiao , Yanzhao Wu