arXiv Machine Learning

Code-Poisoning Property Inference Attacks

arXiv:2607. 15970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The flourishing code hosting platforms and coding agents enable even beginners with private data to build tailored Machine Learning (ML) models using available code quickly.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

SoK: Privacy Attacks on Machine Learning via Explainable AI

The paper surveys 25 studies that use explainable AI to compromise machine learning models, covering attacks such as model extraction, membership inference, and model inversion. It distinguishes between how explanations are obtained—through target releases, attacker-derived methods, secondary disclosure, privileged access, or global artifacts—and shows that explanations can lower extraction costs and reveal membership signals via statistics, recourse distance, and robustness. The authors compare threat models, signals, and defenses, concluding that no single explanation type is always unsafe and that protection must be tailored to the specific acquisition path and target asset.

By Abdullah Caglar Oksuz, Anisa Halimi, Erman Ayday