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Synthetic tabular data has gained attention for enabling privacy-preserving data sharing. While substantial progress has been made in single-table synthetic generation where data are modeled at the row or item level, most real-world data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Joshua Ward , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

Training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive data has become a popular practice, driving innovation in ever-expanding fields. This has opened the door to new attacks that can have serious privacy implications. One such attack, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Thomas Humphries , Simon Oya , Lindsey Tulloch , Matthew Rafuse , Ian Goldberg , Urs Hengartner , Florian Kerschbaum

Membership Inference Attacks (MIA) enable to empirically assess the privacy of a machine learning algorithm. In this paper, we propose TAMIS, a novel MIA against differentially-private synthetic data generation methods that rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Paul Andrey , Batiste Le Bars , Marc Tommasi

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) 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

This report summarizes all the MIA experiments (Membership Inference Attacks) of the Embedding Attack Project, including threat models, experimental setup, experimental results, findings and discussion. Current results cover the evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jiameng Pu , Zafar Takhirov

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against machine learning (ML) models aim to determine whether a given data point was part of the model training data. These attacks may pose significant privacy risks to individuals whose sensitive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mona Khalil , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Najeeb Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

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

Among all privacy attacks against Machine Learning (ML), membership inference attacks (MIA) attracted the most attention. In these attacks, the attacker is given an ML model and a data point, and they must infer whether the data point was…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Bram van Dartel , Marc Damie , Florian Hahn

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) aim to identify specific data samples within the private training dataset of machine learning models, leading to serious privacy violations and other sophisticated threats. Many practical black-box MIAs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jihye Choi , Shruti Tople , Varun Chandrasekaran , Somesh Jha

Machine learning (ML) models have been shown to be vulnerable to Membership Inference Attacks (MIA), which infer the membership of a given data point in the target dataset by observing the prediction output of the ML model. While the key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shakila Mahjabin Tonni , Dinusha Vatsalan , Farhad Farokhi , Dali Kaafar , Zhigang Lu , Gioacchino Tangari

In recent years, the widespread adoption of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS), particularly in sensitive environments, has raised considerable privacy concerns. Of particular importance are membership inference attacks (MIAs), which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Osama Zafar , Shaojie Zhan , Tianxi Ji , Erman Ayday

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

Recently, diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating tasks, including image and audio generation. However, like other generative models, diffusion models are prone to privacy issues. In this paper, we propose an…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Fei Kong , Jinhao Duan , RuiPeng Ma , Hengtao Shen , Xiaofeng Zhu , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are currently a dominant approach for evaluating privacy in machine learning applications. Despite their significance in identifying records belonging to the training dataset, several concerns remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Cristina Pêra , Tânia Carvalho , Maxime Cordy , Luís Antunes

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a serious threat to the privacy of machine learning models by allowing adversaries to determine whether a specific data sample was included in the training set. Although federated learning (FL) is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mohammad Zare , Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki

The lack of data transparency in Large Language Models (LLMs) has highlighted the importance of Membership Inference Attack (MIA), which differentiates trained (member) and untrained (non-member) data. Though it shows success in previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Bowen Chen , Namgi Han , Yusuke Miyao

Tabular data sharing under privacy constraints is increasingly important for research and collaboration. Synthetic data generators (SDGs) are a promising solution, but synthetic data remains vulnerable to attacks, such as membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Davide Scassola , Andrea Coser , Sebastiano Saccani

Machine learning (ML) models are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which determine whether a given input is used for training the target model. While there have been many efforts to mitigate MIAs, they often suffer from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zitao Chen , Karthik Pattabiraman

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