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Small language models (SLMs) are increasingly valued for their efficiency and deployability in resource-constrained environments, making them useful for on-device, privacy-sensitive, and edge computing applications. On the other hand,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Roya Arkhmammadova , Hosein Madadi Tamar , M. Emre Gursoy

Diffusion-based generative models have shown great potential for image synthesis, but there is a lack of research on the security and privacy risks they may pose. In this paper, we investigate the vulnerability of diffusion models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jinhao Duan , Fei Kong , Shiqi Wang , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

In membership inference attacks (MIAs), an adversary observes the predictions of a model to determine whether a sample is part of the model's training data. Existing MIA defenses conceal the presence of a target sample through strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Ismat Jarin , Birhanu Eshete

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for graph-structured data but are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs) in graph classification tasks, which determine if a graph was part of the training dataset, potentially causing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiazhu Dai , Yubing Lu

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a sample was part of a model's training set, posing serious privacy risks for modern machine-learning systems. Existing MIAs primarily rely on static indicators, such as loss or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Amit Kravchik Taub , Fred M. Grabovski , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) attempt to predict whether a particular datapoint is a member of a target model's training data. Despite extensive research on traditional machine learning models, there has been limited work studying MIA…

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) determine whether a specific data point was included in the training set of a target model. In this paper, we introduce the Semantic Membership Inference Attack (SMIA), a novel approach that enhances MIA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Hamid Mozaffari , Virendra J. Marathe

With the emergence of powerful large-scale foundation models, the training paradigm is increasingly shifting from from-scratch training to transfer learning. This enables high utility training with small, domain-specific datasets typical in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yuxuan Bai , Gauri Pradhan , Marlon Tobaben , Antti Honkela

With the rapid advancement of deep learning technology, pre-trained encoder models have demonstrated exceptional feature extraction capabilities, playing a pivotal role in the research and application of deep learning. However, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruining Sun , Hongsheng Hu , Wei Luo , Zhaoxi Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Haizhuan Yuan , Leo Yu Zhang

Membership inference attacks (MIA) attempt to verify the membership of a given data sample in the training set for a model. MIA has become relevant in recent years, following the rapid development of large language models (LLM). Many are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Haritz Puerto , Martin Gubri , Sangdoo Yun , Seong Joon Oh

Recent Deep Learning (DL) advancements in solving complex real-world tasks have led to its widespread adoption in practical applications. However, this opportunity comes with significant underlying risks, as many of these models rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Shubhi Shukla , Manaar Alam , Sarani Bhattacharya , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay , Pabitra Mitra

Diffusion models have begun to overshadow GANs and other generative models in industrial applications due to their superior image generation performance. The complex architecture of these models furnishes an extensive array of attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yan Pang , Tianhao Wang , Xuhui Kang , Mengdi Huai , Yang Zhang

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are widely used to assess the privacy risks associated with machine learning models. However, when these attacks are applied to pre-trained large language models (LLMs), they encounter significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Meng Tong , Yuntao Du , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Ninghui Li

Machine learning models have been shown to leak sensitive information about their training datasets. Models are increasingly deployed on devices, raising concerns that white-box access to the model parameters increases the attack surface…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ana-Maria Cretu , Daniel Jones , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye , Shruti Tople

Membership inference attacks (MIAs), which determine whether a specific data point was included in the training set of a target model, have posed severe threats in federated learning (FL). Unfortunately, existing MIA defenses, typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Li Bai , Junxu Liu , Sen Zhang , Xinwei Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Machine Learning (ML) has made unprecedented progress in the past several decades. However, due to the memorability of the training data, ML is susceptible to various attacks, especially Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs), the objective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Shuhao Li , Yajie Wang , Yuanzhang Li , Yu-an Tan

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained on tabular data, which, unlike unstructured text, often contains personally identifiable information (PII) in a highly structured and explicit format. As a result, privacy risks arise,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Eyal German , Sagiv Antebi , Daniel Samira , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

Membership inference (MI) attacks affect user privacy by inferring whether given data samples have been used to train a target learning model, e.g., a deep neural network. There are two types of MI attacks in the literature, i.e., these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Bo Hui , Yuchen Yang , Haolin Yuan , Philippe Burlina , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yinzhi Cao

Deep Learning (DL) techniques allow ones to train models from a dataset to solve tasks. DL has attracted much interest given its fancy performance and potential market value, while security issues are amongst the most colossal concerns.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hongwei Huang , Weiqi Luo , Guoqiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Yue Zhang , Anjia Yang

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