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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

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

Determining which data samples were used to train a model, known as Membership Inference Attack (MIA), is a well-studied and important problem with implications on data privacy. SotA methods (which are black-box attacks) rely on training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yuval Golbari , Navve Wasserman , Gal Vardi , Michal Irani

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) test whether a data point was part of a model's training set, posing serious privacy risks. Existing methods often depend on shadow models or heavy query access, which limits their practicality. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yongchao Huang , Pengfei Zhang , Shahzad Mumtaz

Learned recommender systems may inadvertently leak information about their training data, leading to privacy violations. We investigate privacy threats faced by recommender systems through the lens of membership inference. In such attacks,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zihan Wang , Na Huang , Fei Sun , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Hengliang Luo , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Membership inference attack (MIA) poses a significant privacy threat in federated learning (FL) as it allows adversaries to determine whether a client's private dataset contains a specific data sample. While defenses against membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Quan Minh Nguyen , Min-Seon Kim , Hoang M. Ngo , Trong Nghia Hoang , Hyuk-Yoon Kwon , My T. Thai

Machine learning models are prone to memorizing sensitive data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks in which an adversary aims to guess if an input sample was used to train the model. In this paper, we show that prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Liwei Song , Prateek Mittal

Quantizing machine learning models has demonstrated its effectiveness in lowering memory and inference costs while maintaining performance levels comparable to those of the original models. In this work, we investigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Eric Aubinais , Philippe Formont , Pablo Piantanida , Elisabeth Gassiat

Video large language models (VideoLLMs) are increasingly trained or instruction-tuned on large-scale video--text corpora collected from heterogeneous sources, raising an immediate privacy question: can an external auditor determine whether…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Wei Song , Yuxin Cao , Ziqi Ding , Yi Liu , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) have emerged as the standard tool for evaluating the privacy risks of AI models. However, state-of-the-art attacks require training numerous, often computationally expensive, reference models, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Euodia Dodd , Nataša Krčo , Igor Shilov , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) embed sensitive, human-generated data, prompting the need for unlearning methods. Although certified unlearning offers strong privacy guarantees, its restrictive assumptions make it unsuitable for LLMs, giving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rongzhe Wei , Mufei Li , Mohsen Ghassemi , Eleonora Kreačić , Yifan Li , Xiang Yue , Bo Li , Vamsi K. Potluru , Pan Li , Eli Chien

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive and retrieval-augmented settings, raising significant privacy concerns. While attacks such as Membership Inference (MIA), Attribute Inference (AIA), Data Extraction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Karima Makhlouf , Lamiaa Basyoni , Syed Khaderi , Gabriel Marquez , Peter Sotomango , Mahmoud Awawdah , Sami Zhioua

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

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely adopted to analyse non-Euclidean data, such as chemical networks, brain networks, and social networks, modelling complex relationships and interdependency between objects. Recently, Membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bang Wu , Xiangwen Yang , Shirui Pan , Xingliang Yuan

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

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

As the capabilities of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, the "pre-train and fine-tune" paradigm has become increasingly mainstream, leading to the development of various fine-tuning methods. However, the privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jie Hou , Chuxiong Wu , Lannan Luo , Qiang Zeng

Most existing membership inference attacks (MIAs) utilize metrics (e.g., loss) calculated on the model's final state, while recent advanced attacks leverage metrics computed at various stages, including both intermediate and final stages,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hao Li , Zheng Li , Siyuan Wu , Chengrui Hu , Yutong Ye , Min Zhang , Dengguo Feng , Yang Zhang