针对未知类别样本的会员推理攻击,突破了传统方法依赖有害数据的限制。
Membership Inference Attacks for Unseen Classes
- 提出'未见类别'新设定,模拟真实审计场景中无法获取有害样本的情况
- 量化回归攻击在实践中使真正率提升11倍,显著优于主流方法
- 理论与实证结合,揭示现有方法在真实场景中的失效风险
安全AI模型开发的关键工具是数据审计,即利用统计方法判断黑箱模型训练数据中是否包含有害内容。然而,当前大多数会员推理攻击(MIAs)需访问与查询数据同分布的有害样本,这在现实审计中常因法律和伦理限制而不可行。本文将此情境抽象为新的‘未见类别’数据访问模型,证明现有SOTA MIA因缺乏目标分布完整样本而失效。我们发现,量化回归攻击在此设定下表现更优:实验表明其真正率(TPR)可达基于影子模型方法的11倍;同时提供理论模型,阐明该方法成功所需的一般化性质。本工作揭示了现有MIAs的重要缺陷,为从业者在实际应用中直接使用现有工具敲响警钟。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
A key tool in developing safe AI models is \emph{data auditing}, i.e., using statistical tools to determine whether harmful content may have been used in the training data of a black-box model. Unfortunately, most \emph{membership inference attacks} (MIAs) used to perform this type of auditing themselves assume \emph{access} to examples of harmful content from the same distribution as the query data. In real-world auditing scenarios, auditors often face legal and ethical restrictions preventing them from accessing a representative set of samples of harmful content to train MIA models effectively. We abstract and formalize this setting into a new data access model, the ``unseen class'' setting, and show that the state of the art MIAs fail due to the lack of access to the full target distribution. We show in this setting, \emph{quantile regression attacks} outperform approaches typically considered to be SoTA. We demonstrate this both empirically and theoretically, showing that quantile regression attacks achieve up to \textbf{11$\times$ the TPR} of shadow model-based approaches in practice, and providing a theoretical model that outlines the generalization properties required for this approach to succeed. Our work identifies an important failure mode in existing MIAs and provides a cautionary tale for practitioners that aim to directly use existing tools for real-world applications of AI safety.
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