arXiv Machine Learning

LoMime: Query-Efficient Membership Inference using Model Extraction in Label-Only Settings

arXiv:2602. 18934v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Membership inference attacks (MIAs) threaten the privacy of machine learning models by revealing whether a specific data point was used during training.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

When T2I Synthetic Data Backfires: Amplified Privacy Risks in Real-Synthetic Mix Training

arXiv:2607. 13541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To overcome data scarcity and privacy constraints in data collection, it has become standard practice across academia and industry to augment real training data with text-to-image (T2I)-generated synthetic data, a paradigm we term Real-Synthetic Mix-Training (RSMT).

By Na Li, Boyu Kuang, Hongsheng Hu, Liquan Chen, Hyoungshick Kim, Yansong Gao, Anmin Fu
arXiv AI
4d ago

Calibrating One-Round Membership Inference with Neighbors

The paper addresses the challenge of calibrating membership inference attacks in a one‑round setting where only a single trained model is available. It proposes using neighboring data points of the target to approximate the calibration that reference models normally provide, and demonstrates that querying these neighbors—especially against early training checkpoints—enhances the membership signal. Experiments on three image classification datasets and training setups show that this neighbor‑based approach yields strong attack performance without extra training cost.

By Francesco Rita, Jie Zhang, Florian Tram\`er