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Membership Inference Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Models: Is My Data In Your Machine Translation System?

11 Apr 2019TACL 2020 1arXiv:1904.05506archive 2025-07-28

Sorami Hisamoto, Matt Post, Kevin Duh

Data privacy is an important issue for "machine learning as a service" providers. We focus on the problem of membership inference attacks: given a data sample and black-box access to a model's API, determine whether the sample existed in the model's training data. Our contribution is an investigation of this problem in the context of sequence-to-sequence models, which are important in applications such as machine translation and video captioning. We define the membership inference problem for sequence generation, provide an open dataset based on state-of-the-art machine translation models, and report initial results on whether these models leak private information against several kinds of membership inference attacks.

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