arXiv AI

Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Empirical Privacy Auditing

arXiv:2606. 10481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) can exhibit problematic memorization of individual training examples.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Optimizing Canaries for Privacy Auditing with Metagradient Descent

The paper investigates black-box privacy auditing for differentially private learning algorithms, focusing on DP‑SGD. It introduces a method that optimizes the auditor’s canary set using metagradient descent, improving empirical lower bounds on privacy parameters compared to prior canary designs. The approach is shown to be DP‑SGD agnostic and efficient, with optimized canaries for small models remaining effective for larger DP‑SGD models.

By Matteo Boglioni, Terrance Liu, Andrew Ilyas, Zhiwei Steven Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Causal Evaluation of Membership Inference Attacks

arXiv:2602. 02819v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) aim to distinguish training points (members) from unseen data (non-members), and are widely used to quantify memorization and assess privacy risks.

By Mathieu Even, Cl\'ement Berenfeld, Linus Bleistein, Tudor Cebere, Julie Josse, Aur\'elien Bellet