Home About Browse Data Privacy Policy Impressum Login ML-Doctor: Holistic Risk Assessment of Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models Liu, Yugeng and Wen, Rui and He, Xinlei and Salem, Ahmed and Zhang, Zhikun and Backes, Michael and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Fritz, Mario and Zhang, Yang (2022) ML-Doctor: Holistic Risk Assessment of Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models. In: USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2022.. Conference: USENIX-Security Usenix Security Symposium (In Press) Full text not available from this repository. Abstract Inference attacks against Machine Learning (ML) models allow adversaries to learn information about training data, model parameters, etc. While researchers have studied these attacks thoroughly, they have done so in isolation. We lack a comprehensive picture of the risks caused by the attacks, such as the different scenarios they can be applied to, the common factors that influence their performance, the relationship among them, or the effectiveness of defense techniques. In this paper, we fill this gap by presenting a first-of-its-kind holistic risk assessment of different inference attacks against machine learning models. We concentrate on four attacks - namely, membership inference, model inversion, attribute inference, and model stealing - and establish a threat model taxonomy. Our extensive experimental evaluation conducted over five model architectures and four datasets shows that the complexity of the training dataset plays an important role with respect to the attack's performance, while the effectiveness of model stealing and membership inference attacks are negatively correlated. We also show that defenses like DP-SGD and Knowledge Distillation can only hope to mitigate some of the inference attacks. Our analysis relies on a modular re-usable software, ML-Doctor, which enables ML model owners to assess the risks of deploying their models, and equally serves as a benchmark tool for researchers and practitioners. Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (A Paper) (Paper) Divisions: Mario Fritz (MF) Michael Backes (InfSec) Yang Zhang (YZ) Conference: USENIX-Security Usenix Security Symposium Depositing User: Tobias Lorenz Date Deposited: 05 Oct 2021 09:46 Last Modified: 05 Oct 2021 09:46 Primary Research Area: NRA1: Trustworthy Information Processing URI: https://publications.cispa.saarland/id/eprint/3485 Actions BibTeX Simple Metadata Dublin Core EndNote RDF+N-Triples EP3 XML METS JSON Refer RDF+XML OpenURL ContextObject ASCII Citation Atom Multiline CSV RDF+N3 MPEG-21 DIDL OpenURL ContextObject in Span Reference Manager HTML Citation MODS Actions (login required) View Item CISPA is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. More information and software credits.