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Analyzing time-series data that contains personal information, particularly in the medical field, presents serious privacy concerns. Sensitive health data from patients is often used to train machine learning models for diagnostics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Noam Koren , Abigail Goldsteen , Guy Amit , Ariel Farkash

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against Diffusion Models (DMs) raise pressing privacy concerns by revealing whether a sample was part of the training set. While existing methods typically rely on measuring reconstruction error across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mingxing Rao , Bowen Qu , Daniel Moyer

The high cost of model training makes it increasingly desirable to develop techniques for unlearning. These techniques seek to remove the influence of a training example without having to retrain the model from scratch. Intuitively, once a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jamie Hayes , Ilia Shumailov , Eleni Triantafillou , Amr Khalifa , Nicolas Papernot

In the rapidly evolving field of machine learning, adversarial attacks present a significant challenge to model robustness and security. Decision-based attacks, which only require feedback on the decision of a model rather than detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ping Guo , Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Qingchuan Zhao , Qingfu Zhang

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to specific tasks introduces concerns about computational efficiency, prompting an exploration of efficient methods such as In-Context Learning (ICL). However, the vulnerability of ICL to privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Rui Wen , Zheng Li , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Machine learning (ML) has become a core component of many real-world applications and training data is a key factor that drives current progress. This huge success has led Internet companies to deploy machine learning as a service (MLaaS).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Ahmed Salem , Yang Zhang , Mathias Humbert , Pascal Berrang , Mario Fritz , Michael Backes

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

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have emerged as a valuable framework for evaluating privacy leakage by machine learning models. Score-based MIAs are distinguished, in particular, by their ability to exploit the confidence scores that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Gauri Pradhan , Joonas Jälkö , Marlon Tobaben , Antti Honkela

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

Machine learning models can inadvertently expose confidential properties of their training data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIA). While numerous evaluation methods exist, many require computationally expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Richard J. Preen , Jim Smith

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in generating high-quality tabular synthetic data. In practice, two primary approaches have emerged for adapting LLMs to tabular data generation: (i) fine-tuning…

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

Data is the foundation of most science. Unfortunately, sharing data can be obstructed by the risk of violating data privacy, impeding research in fields like healthcare. Synthetic data is a potential solution. It aims to generate data that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Boris van Breugel , Hao Sun , Zhaozhi Qian , Mihaela van der Schaar

All prior membership inference attacks for fine-tuned language models use hand-crafted heuristics (e.g., loss thresholding, Min-K\%, reference calibration), each bounded by the designer's intuition. We introduce the first transferable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 David Ilić , Kostadin Cvejoski , David Stanojević , Evgeny Grigorenko

Transfer learning has been widely studied and gained increasing popularity to improve the accuracy of machine learning models by transferring some knowledge acquired in different training. However, no prior work has pointed out that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Seira Hidano , Takao Murakami , Yusuke Kawamoto

Growing concerns over data privacy and security highlight the importance of machine unlearning--removing specific data influences from trained models without full retraining. Techniques like Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Cheng-Long Wang , Qi Li , Zihang Xiang , Yinzhi Cao , Di Wang

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

Recommender systems have been successfully applied in many applications. Nonetheless, recent studies demonstrate that recommender systems are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), leading to the leakage of users' membership…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaoxiao Chi , Xuyun Zhang , Yan Wang , Lianyong Qi , Amin Beheshti , Xiaolong Xu , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Shuo Wang , Hongsheng Hu

The data used to train deep neural network (DNN) models in applications such as healthcare and finance typically contain sensitive information. A DNN model may suffer from overfitting. Overfitted models have been shown to be susceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Arezoo Rajabi , Dinuka Sahabandu , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Radha Poovendran

A membership inference attack (MIA) against a machine-learning model enables an attacker to determine whether a given data record was part of the model's training data or not. In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of the phenomenon of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Bogdan Kulynych , Mohammad Yaghini , Giovanni Cherubin , Michael Veale , Carmela Troncoso