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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

Membership Inference Attack (MIA) aims to determine whether a specific data sample was included in the training dataset of a target model. Traditional MIA approaches rely on shadow models to mimic target model behavior, but their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Li Cuihong , Huang Xiaowen , Yin Chuanhuan , Sang Jitao

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

An efficient scheme is introduced that extends the generalized membership inference attack to every point in a model's training data set. Our approach leverages data partitioning to create variable sized training sets for the reference…

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) serve as a fundamental auditing tool for evaluating training data leakage in machine learning models. However, existing methodologies predominantly rely on static, handcrafted heuristics that lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ruhao Liu , Weiqi Huang , Qi Li , Xinchao Wang

State-of-the-art membership inference attacks (MIAs) typically require training many reference models, making it difficult to scale these attacks to large pre-trained language models (LLMs). As a result, prior research has either relied on…

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) on pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) aim at determining if a data point was part of the model's training set. Prior MIAs that are built for classification models fail at LLMs, due to ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hongyan Chang , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Kleomenis Katevas , Hamed Haddadi , Reza Shokri

The vulnerability of machine learning models to Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) has garnered considerable attention in recent years. These attacks determine whether a data sample belongs to the model's training set or not. Recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yu He , Boheng Li , Yao Wang , Mengda Yang , Juan Wang , Hongxin Hu , Xingyu Zhao

Previous studies have developed fairness methods for biased models that exhibit discriminatory behaviors towards specific subgroups. While these models have shown promise in achieving fair predictions, recent research has identified their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Huan Tian , Guangsheng Zhang , Bo Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Ming Ding , Wanlei Zhou

Since machine learning model is often trained on a limited data set, the model is trained multiple times on the same data sample, which causes the model to memorize most of the training set data. Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Depeng Chen , Xiao Liu , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a data sample was included in a machine learning (ML) model's training set and have become the de facto standard for measuring privacy leakages in ML. We propose an evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Najeeb Jebreel , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

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

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a significant threat to the privacy of machine learning models and are widely used as tools for privacy assessment, auditing, and machine unlearning. While prior MIA research has primarily focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zhiqi Wang , Chengyu Zhang , Yuetian Chen , Nathalie Baracaldo , Swanand Kadhe , Lei Yu

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

With the rapid advancements of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models, various practical applications have emerged, bringing significant convenience to society. However, model developers may misuse the unauthorized data to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Qiao Li , Xiaomeng Fu , Xi Wang , Jin Liu , Xingyu Gao , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han

A Membership Inference Attack (MIA) assesses how much a trained machine learning model reveals about its training data by determining whether specific query instances were included in the dataset. We classify existing MIAs into adaptive or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuntao Du , Jiacheng Li , Yuetian Chen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Zhizhen Yuan , Hanshen Xiao , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

Optimization algorithms that seek flatter minima, such as Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), are credited with improved generalization and robustness to noise. We ask whether such gains impact membership privacy. Surprisingly, we find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Young In Kim , Andrea Agiollo , Pratiksha Agrawal , Johannes O. Royset , Rajiv Khanna

A large body of research has shown that machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference (MI) attacks that violate the privacy of the participants in the training data. Most MI research focuses on the case of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Matthew Jagielski , Stanley Wu , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman , Roxana Geambasu

The primary promise of decentralized learning is to allow users to engage in the training of machine learning models in a collaborative manner while keeping their data on their premises and without relying on any central entity. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ousmane Touat , Jezekael Brunon , Yacine Belal , Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar

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