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Recently, recommender systems have achieved promising performances and become one of the most widely used web applications. However, recommender systems are often trained on highly sensitive user data, thus potential data leakage from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Minxing Zhang , Zhaochun Ren , Zihan Wang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Pengfei Hu , Yang Zhang

Aggregate location data is often used to support smart services and applications, e.g., generating live traffic maps or predicting visits to businesses. In this paper, we present the first study on the feasibility of membership inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Carmela Troncoso , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have rapidly gained prominence for their strong performance in solving complex tasks. Many modern black-box LRMs expose the intermediate reasoning traces through APIs to improve transparency (e.g., Gemini-2.5…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ruihan Hu , Yu-Ming Shang , Wei Luo , Ye Tao , Xi Zhang

Data privacy is an important issue for "machine learning as a service" providers. We focus on the problem of membership inference attacks: given a data sample and black-box access to a model's API, determine whether the sample existed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Sorami Hisamoto , Matt Post , Kevin Duh

We present two information leakage attacks that outperform previous work on membership inference against generative models. The first attack allows membership inference without assumptions on the type of the generative model. Contrary to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Benjamin Hilprecht , Martin Härterich , Daniel Bernau

Machine learning (ML) models have been widely applied to various applications, including image classification, text generation, audio recognition, and graph data analysis. However, recent studies have shown that ML models are vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Hongsheng Hu , Zoran Salcic , Lichao Sun , Gillian Dobbie , Philip S. Yu , Xuyun Zhang

Natural language processing models have experienced a significant upsurge in recent years, with numerous applications being built upon them. Many of these applications require fine-tuning generic base models on customized, proprietary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Guy Amit , Abigail Goldsteen , Ariel Farkash

Text-to-image generation models have recently attracted unprecedented attention as they unlatch imaginative applications in all areas of life. However, developing such models requires huge amounts of data that might contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant advancements in a wide range of natural language processing and vision-language tasks. Access to large web-scale datasets has been a key factor in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jie Ren , Kangrui Chen , Chen Chen , Vikash Sehwag , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang , Lingjuan Lyu

Membership inference (MI) attacks affect user privacy by inferring whether given data samples have been used to train a target learning model, e.g., a deep neural network. There are two types of MI attacks in the literature, i.e., these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Bo Hui , Yuchen Yang , Haolin Yuan , Philippe Burlina , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yinzhi Cao

Machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference attack, which can be used to determine whether a given sample appears in the training data. Most existing methods assume the attacker has full access to the features of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xurun Wang , Guangrui Liu , Xinjie Li , Haoyu He , Lin Yao , Zhongyun Hua , Weizhe Zhang

Member inference (MI) attacks aim to determine if a specific data sample was used to train a machine learning model. Thus, MI is a major privacy threat to models trained on private sensitive data, such as medical records. In MI attacks one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Gilad Cohen , Raja Giryes

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

We study the membership inference (MI) attack against classifiers, where the attacker's goal is to determine whether a data instance was used for training the classifier. Through systematic cataloging of existing MI attacks and extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Jiacheng Li , Ninghui Li , Bruno Ribeiro

Today's success of state of the art methods for semantic segmentation is driven by large datasets. Data is considered an important asset that needs to be protected, as the collection and annotation of such datasets comes at significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yang He , Shadi Rahimian , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Membership inference (MI) determines if a sample was part of a victim model training set. Recent development of MI attacks focus on record-level membership inference which limits their application in many real-world scenarios. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Guoyao Li , Shahbaz Rezaei , Xin Liu

The wide adoption and application of Masked language models~(MLMs) on sensitive data (from legal to medical) necessitates a thorough quantitative investigation into their privacy vulnerabilities -- to what extent do MLMs leak information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Kartik Goyal , Archit Uniyal , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Reza Shokri

Neural networks are susceptible to data inference attacks such as the membership inference attack, the adversarial model inversion attack and the attribute inference attack, where the attacker could infer useful information such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ziqi Yang , Lijin Wang , Da Yang , Jie Wan , Ziming Zhao , Ee-Chien Chang , Fan Zhang , Kui Ren

Membership Inference Attacks have emerged as a dominant method for empirically measuring privacy leakage from machine learning models. Here, privacy is measured by the {\em{advantage}} or gap between a score or a function computed on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ruihan Wu , Pengrun Huang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Recently, diffusion models have become popular tools for image synthesis because of their high-quality outputs. However, like other large-scale models, they may leak private information about their training data. Here, we demonstrate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shuai Tang , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Sergul Aydore , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth