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Hauptverfasser: Cheng, Ruoxi, Ding, Yizhong, Zhao, Jian, Zhang, Hongyi, Ma, Haoxuan, Zhang, Tianle, Huang, Yiyan, Li, Xuelong
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Cheng, Ruoxi
Ding, Yizhong
Zhao, Jian
Zhang, Hongyi
Ma, Haoxuan
Zhang, Tianle
Huang, Yiyan
Li, Xuelong
author_facet Cheng, Ruoxi
Ding, Yizhong
Zhao, Jian
Zhang, Hongyi
Ma, Haoxuan
Zhang, Tianle
Huang, Yiyan
Li, Xuelong
contents Contrastive pretraining models such as CLIP and CLAP, serve as the ubiquitous perceptual backbones for modern multimodal large models, yet their reliance on web-scale data raises growing concerns about memorizing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Auditing such models via membership inference is challenging in practice: shadow-model MIAs are computationally prohibitive for large multimodal backbones, and existing multimodal auditing methods typically require querying the target with paired biometric inputs, thereby directly exposing sensitive biometric information to the target model. To bypass this critical limitation, we demonstrate a highly desirable capability for privacy auditing: multimodal memorization within these foundational encoders can be accurately inferred using exclusively the text modality. We propose Unimodal Membership Inference Detector (UMID), a text-only auditing framework that performs text-guided cross-modal latent inversion and extracts two complementary signals, similarity (alignment to the queried text) and variability (consistency across randomized inversions). UMID compares these statistics to a lightweight non-member reference constructed from synthetic gibberish and makes decisions via an ensemble of unsupervised anomaly detectors. Comprehensive experiments across diverse CLIP and CLAP architectures demonstrate that UMID significantly improves the effectiveness and efficiency over prior MIAs, delivering strong detection performance with sub-second auditing cost using solely text queries, completely circumventing the need for biometric inputs and complying with strict privacy constraints.
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spellingShingle Membership Inference for Contrastive Pre-training Models with Text-only PII Queries
Cheng, Ruoxi
Ding, Yizhong
Zhao, Jian
Zhang, Hongyi
Ma, Haoxuan
Zhang, Tianle
Huang, Yiyan
Li, Xuelong
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Contrastive pretraining models such as CLIP and CLAP, serve as the ubiquitous perceptual backbones for modern multimodal large models, yet their reliance on web-scale data raises growing concerns about memorizing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Auditing such models via membership inference is challenging in practice: shadow-model MIAs are computationally prohibitive for large multimodal backbones, and existing multimodal auditing methods typically require querying the target with paired biometric inputs, thereby directly exposing sensitive biometric information to the target model. To bypass this critical limitation, we demonstrate a highly desirable capability for privacy auditing: multimodal memorization within these foundational encoders can be accurately inferred using exclusively the text modality. We propose Unimodal Membership Inference Detector (UMID), a text-only auditing framework that performs text-guided cross-modal latent inversion and extracts two complementary signals, similarity (alignment to the queried text) and variability (consistency across randomized inversions). UMID compares these statistics to a lightweight non-member reference constructed from synthetic gibberish and makes decisions via an ensemble of unsupervised anomaly detectors. Comprehensive experiments across diverse CLIP and CLAP architectures demonstrate that UMID significantly improves the effectiveness and efficiency over prior MIAs, delivering strong detection performance with sub-second auditing cost using solely text queries, completely circumventing the need for biometric inputs and complying with strict privacy constraints.
title Membership Inference for Contrastive Pre-training Models with Text-only PII Queries
topic Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14222