EM-MIAs: Enhancing Membership Inference Attacks in Large Language Models through Ensemble Modeling

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Main Authors: Song, Zichen, Huang, Sitan, Kang, Zhongfeng
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author Song, Zichen
Huang, Sitan
Kang, Zhongfeng
author_facet Song, Zichen
Huang, Sitan
Kang, Zhongfeng
contents With the widespread application of large language models (LLM), concerns about the privacy leakage of model training data have increasingly become a focus. Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have emerged as a critical tool for evaluating the privacy risks associated with these models. Although existing attack methods, such as LOSS, Reference-based, min-k, and zlib, perform well in certain scenarios, their effectiveness on large pre-trained language models often approaches random guessing, particularly in the context of large-scale datasets and single-epoch training. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel ensemble attack method that integrates several existing MIAs techniques (LOSS, Reference-based, min-k, zlib) into an XGBoost-based model to enhance overall attack performance (EM-MIAs). Experimental results demonstrate that the ensemble model significantly improves both AUC-ROC and accuracy compared to individual attack methods across various large language models and datasets. This indicates that by combining the strengths of different methods, we can more effectively identify members of the model's training data, thereby providing a more robust tool for evaluating the privacy risks of LLM. This study offers new directions for further research in the field of LLM privacy protection and underscores the necessity of developing more powerful privacy auditing methods.
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spellingShingle EM-MIAs: Enhancing Membership Inference Attacks in Large Language Models through Ensemble Modeling
Song, Zichen
Huang, Sitan
Kang, Zhongfeng
Robotics
Cryptography and Security
With the widespread application of large language models (LLM), concerns about the privacy leakage of model training data have increasingly become a focus. Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have emerged as a critical tool for evaluating the privacy risks associated with these models. Although existing attack methods, such as LOSS, Reference-based, min-k, and zlib, perform well in certain scenarios, their effectiveness on large pre-trained language models often approaches random guessing, particularly in the context of large-scale datasets and single-epoch training. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel ensemble attack method that integrates several existing MIAs techniques (LOSS, Reference-based, min-k, zlib) into an XGBoost-based model to enhance overall attack performance (EM-MIAs). Experimental results demonstrate that the ensemble model significantly improves both AUC-ROC and accuracy compared to individual attack methods across various large language models and datasets. This indicates that by combining the strengths of different methods, we can more effectively identify members of the model's training data, thereby providing a more robust tool for evaluating the privacy risks of LLM. This study offers new directions for further research in the field of LLM privacy protection and underscores the necessity of developing more powerful privacy auditing methods.
title EM-MIAs: Enhancing Membership Inference Attacks in Large Language Models through Ensemble Modeling
topic Robotics
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17249