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Membership inference

What does “Membership inference” mean?

Membership inference: An attack that tries to determine whether a particular example was in a model's training data.

Membership inference visual guide: An attack that tries to determine whether a particular example was in a model's training data.
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What is an example of “Membership inference”?

A researcher tests whether unusually confident outputs reveal training-set membership.

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