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Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are widely used to empirically assess privacy risks in machine learning models, both providing model-level vulnerability metrics and identifying the most vulnerable training samples. State-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Joseph Pollock , Igor Shilov , Euodia Dodd , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Foundation-style ECG encoders pretrained with self-supervised learning are increasingly reused across tasks, institutions, and deployment contexts, often through model-as-a-service interfaces that expose scalar scores or latent…

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

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

Recent work in the privacy literature shows that sample-targeted membership inference attacks (MIAs) significantly outperform untargeted approaches by a wide margin. Motivated by this observation, we address the following question: can the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Valentin Dorseuil , Jamal Atif , Olivier Cappé

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

This paper presents how to leak private information from a wireless signal classifier by launching an over-the-air membership inference attack (MIA). As machine learning (ML) algorithms are used to process wireless signals to make decisions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Yi Shi , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a specific example was used to train a given language model. While prior work has explored prompt-based attacks such as ReCALL, these methods rely heavily on the assumption that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Gyuwan Kim , Yang Li , Evangelia Spiliopoulou , Jie Ma , William Yang Wang

While location data is extremely valuable for various applications, disclosing it prompts serious threats to individuals' privacy. To limit such concerns, organizations often provide analysts with aggregate time-series that indicate, e.g.,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Carmela Troncoso , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the promise to revolutionize computing broadly, but their complexity and extensive training data also expose significant privacy vulnerabilities. One of the simplest privacy risks associated with LLMs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Rongting Zhang , Martin Bertran , Aaron Roth

The proliferation of powerful Text-to-Video (T2V) models, trained on massive web-scale datasets, raises urgent concerns about copyright and privacy violations. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) provide a principled tool for auditing such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Li Wang , Wenyu Chen , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Shanqing Guo

The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generation models has raised serious concerns regarding potential copyright and privacy infringements involving human-created data. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) have emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tao Qi , Huili Wang , Yuanhong Huang , Wendan Wang , Lianchao Zhao , Jinrui Wang , Zichen Qin , Shangguang Wang , Yongfeng Huang

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Supervised Finetuning (SFT) have become the predominant paradigms for equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with external knowledge for diverse, knowledge-intensive tasks. However, while such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haowei Fu , Bo Ni , Han Xu , Kunpeng Liu , Dan Lin , Tyler Derr

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a specific data point was included in the training set of a target model. Although there are have been numerous methods developed for detecting data contamination in large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Anton Emelyanov , Sergei Kudriashov , Alena Fenogenova

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

Membership inference (MI) attacks highlight a privacy weakness in present stochastic training methods for neural networks. It is not well understood, however, why they arise. Are they a natural consequence of imperfect generalization only?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Teodora Baluta , Shiqi Shen , S. Hitarth , Shruti Tople , Prateek Saxena

While in-processing fairness approaches show promise in mitigating biased predictions, their potential impact on privacy leakage remains under-explored. We aim to address this gap by assessing the privacy risks of fairness-enhanced binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Huan Tian , Guangsheng Zhang , Bo Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Ming Ding , Wanlei Zhou

We demonstrate how a target model's generalization gap leads directly to an effective deterministic black box membership inference attack (MIA). This provides an upper bound on how secure a model can be to MIA based on a simple metric.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Jason W. Bentley , Daniel Gibney , Gary Hoppenworth , Sumit Kumar Jha