arXiv Machine Learning

Membership Inference Attacks for Unseen Classes

arXiv:2506. 06488v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key tool in developing safe AI models is \emph{data auditing}, i.

arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

On Reliability of Membership Inference Vulnerability Evaluation

The paper examines the reliability of membership inference attack (MIA) vulnerability evaluation. It identifies two weaknesses: finite‑sample bias from sampling shadow datasets from a fixed superset, and miscalibration when aggregating true positive rates across individuals at very low false positive rates. The authors propose simple fixes that avoid extra computational cost and suggest further improvements with additional computation.

By Joonas J\"alk\"o, Gauri Pradhan, Ossi R\"ais\"a, Antti Honkela
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Membership Inference via Pairwise Likelihood Ratios

The paper introduces Pairwise Likelihood MIA (PL‑MIA), a unified membership inference attack that combines a Gaussian likelihood‑ratio statistic with population calibration and the Cauchy combination test. PL‑MIA generates p‑values from pairwise comparisons between a query point and reference points, then aggregates these continuous signals using the Cauchy test to preserve evidence strength. Experiments show that PL‑MIA surpasses strong baselines, boosting true positive rates by over 25% in low‑false‑positive settings, thereby validating the theoretical advantages of the proposed statistical framework.

By Shengjie Niu, Zebin Yun, Yeheng Ge, Jian Huang
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
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Phantom Transfer: Data Poisoning can Survive Data-Level Defences

arXiv:2602. 04899v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a data poisoning attack -- Phantom Transfer -- with the property that, even if you know precisely how the poison was placed into an otherwise benign dataset, you cannot filter it out.

By Andrew Draganov, Tolga H. Dur, Anandmayi Bhongade, Mary Phuong