arXiv:2605.25819cs.LGcs.CR2026-05

提出改进成员推理评估方法,解决低误报率下结果不可靠问题

On Reliability of Efficient Membership Inference Vulnerability Evaluation

  • 通过后处理校准多样本融合的假阳性率,提升评估可靠性
  • 发现高效似然比攻击存在有限群体偏差,导致漏洞评估偏高
  • 适合关注隐私审计与差分隐私验证的研究者使用

成员推理攻击(MIA)常用于实证评估模型对训练数据敏感信息的泄露。通常通过二分类器的假阳性率(FPR)和真阳性率(TPR)来衡量脆弱性。然而,在低FPR条件下可靠估计TPR需大量目标模型,计算开销巨大。为降低开销,常对多个个体和多个模型的MIA得分取平均。本文揭示该流程存在两大缺陷:其一,跨个体合并的MIA得分用于低FPR场景时,未在样本级保持FPR校准,导致差分隐私审计不可靠;为此提出后处理方法实现跨样本的FPR校准。其二,发现Carlini等人2022年提出的高效似然比攻击(LiRA)存在有限群体偏差,导致每个样本的脆弱性被系统性高估。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are popular methods for empirically assessing the leakage of sensitive information in the training data through models or statistics learned from the data. The MIA vulnerability is often evaluated through false positive rate (FPR) and true positive rate (TPR) of a binary classifier that tries to predict whether a particular sample was in the training data. However, in order to reliably estimate the TPR especially for low FPR values, a lot of observations are needed, which in case of MIA translates to many target models, leading to large computational cost. To avoid excessive compute requirements, the MIA scores are often averaged over multiple individuals and multiple targeted models. We demonstrate two key weaknesses in this efficient MIA evaluation pipeline. First, we show that evaluating the TPR based on MIA scores concatenated across multiple individuals, commonly used to study vulnerabilities in the very low FPR regime, is not calibrated across the per-sample FPRs. This makes it unreliable as a tool for auditing differential privacy. To solve this, we propose a post-processing method to effectively calibrate the FPR across different samples. Second, we identify a finite population bias in the commonly used efficient likelihood-ratio attack (LiRA) implementation proposed by Carlini et al. 2022, leading to a positive bias in the per-sample vulnerability.

成员推理隐私审计差分隐私评估方法

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