PANORAMIA: Privacy Auditing of Machine Learning Models without Retraining
Mishaal Kazmi, Hadrien Lautraite, Alireza Akbari, Qiaoyue Tang, Mauricio Soroco, Tao Wang, Sébastien Gambs, Mathias Lécuyer
Abstract
We present PANORAMIA, a privacy leakage measurement framework for machine learning models that relies on membership inference attacks using generated data as non-members. By relying on generated non-member data, PANORAMIA eliminates the common dependency of privacy measurement tools on in-distribution non-member data. As a result, PANORAMIA does not modify the model, training data, or training process, and only requires access to a subset of the training data. We evaluate PANORAMIA on ML models for image and tabular data classification, as well as on large-scale language models.
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