Defending Diffusion Models Against Membership Inference Attacks via Higher-Order Langevin Dynamics

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Autori principali: Sterling, Benjamin, El-Laham, Yousef, Bugallo, Mónica F.
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author Sterling, Benjamin
El-Laham, Yousef
Bugallo, Mónica F.
author_facet Sterling, Benjamin
El-Laham, Yousef
Bugallo, Mónica F.
contents Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence applications have raised new data security concerns. This paper focuses on defending diffusion models against membership inference attacks. This type of attack occurs when the attacker can determine if a certain data point was used to train the model. Although diffusion models are intrinsically more resistant to membership inference attacks than other generative models, they are still susceptible. The defense proposed here utilizes critically-damped higher-order Langevin dynamics, which introduces several auxiliary variables and a joint diffusion process along these variables. The idea is that the presence of auxiliary variables mixes external randomness that helps to corrupt sensitive input data earlier on in the diffusion process. This concept is theoretically investigated and validated on a toy dataset and a speech dataset using the Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUROC) curves and the FID metric.
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spellingShingle Defending Diffusion Models Against Membership Inference Attacks via Higher-Order Langevin Dynamics
Sterling, Benjamin
El-Laham, Yousef
Bugallo, Mónica F.
Machine Learning
Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence applications have raised new data security concerns. This paper focuses on defending diffusion models against membership inference attacks. This type of attack occurs when the attacker can determine if a certain data point was used to train the model. Although diffusion models are intrinsically more resistant to membership inference attacks than other generative models, they are still susceptible. The defense proposed here utilizes critically-damped higher-order Langevin dynamics, which introduces several auxiliary variables and a joint diffusion process along these variables. The idea is that the presence of auxiliary variables mixes external randomness that helps to corrupt sensitive input data earlier on in the diffusion process. This concept is theoretically investigated and validated on a toy dataset and a speech dataset using the Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUROC) curves and the FID metric.
title Defending Diffusion Models Against Membership Inference Attacks via Higher-Order Langevin Dynamics
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14225