arXiv Machine Learning By Yaohong Yang, Gauri Pradhan, Qi Chen, Samuel Kaski, Antti Honkela

Shift-aware score transport for privacy auditing without retraining

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The paper introduces a shift‑aware score transport method for privacy auditing that does not require retraining the target model. It estimates the in‑distribution non‑member score distribution from out‑of‑distribution data, transports this relationship to the target covariate distribution, and applies a conservative correction to account for potential extrapolation errors. Experiments on multiple datasets with distribution shifts show that the method provides more stable privacy estimates while maintaining tighter lower bounds than existing baselines.

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