The \emph{Mixed-Membership Stochastic Blockmodel (MMSB)} is a popular framework for modeling social network relationships. It can fully exploit each individual node's participation (or membership) in a social structure. Despite its powerful representations, this model makes an assumption that the distributions of relat…
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Probabilistic fair clustering tackles uncertain group membership.
problem Fair clustering with imperfect group membership.
method Probabilistic algorithms for metric graphs and metric membership.
result Approximation ratio guarantees for fair clustering.
Membership inference determines, given a sample and trained parameters of a machine learning model, whether the sample was part of the training set. In this paper, we derive the optimal strategy for membership inference with a few assumptions on the distribution of the parameters. We show that optimal attacks only depe…
In the present paper, we studied a Dynamic Stochastic Block Model (DSBM) under the assumptions that the connection probabilities, as functions of time, are smooth and that at most nodes can switch their class memberships between two consecutive time points. We estimate the edge probability tensor by a kernel-type p…
A new hybrid fuzzy-crisp clustering algorithm addresses imbalanced cluster sizes.
problem Imbalanced influence in fuzzy c-means clustering for large vs. small clusters.
method Hybrid fuzzy-crisp algorithm combining linear and quadratic membership functions, setting exact zero membership for sufficiently distant points.
result The hybrid algorithm outperforms conventional fuzzy and crisp clustering methods on imbalanced datasets.
Machine learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to membership inference attacks, i.e., inferring whether individuals' data have been used for training models. The lack of understanding about factors contributing success of these attacks motivates the need for modelling membership information leakage using info…
BFPM improves machine learning accuracy by considering object types and memberships flexibly.
problem Inaccurate learning due to missing important parameters.
method BFPM relaxes fuzzy and possibilistic constraints, allowing arbitrary object memberships and movement analysis.
result BFPM enhances object movement analysis and provides flexible search space.
This paper introduces Bounded Fuzzy Possibilistic Method (BFPM) by addressing several issues that previous clustering/classification methods have not considered. In fuzzy clustering, object's membership values should sum to 1. Hence, any object may obtain full membership in at most one cluster. Possibilistic clustering…
Covariates-Adjusted Mixed-Membership Estimation: A Novel Network Model with Optimal Guaranteesmath.ST
Novel network model estimates mixed-membership structure with covariate information.
problem Estimating latent mixed-membership structure in networks with covariate information.
method Proposes a novel network model that incorporates both community information and node covariate similarities.
result Achieves optimal estimation accuracy for similarity matrix and mixed-membership.
Membership inference attacks seek to infer the membership of individual training instances of a privately trained model. This paper presents a membership privacy analysis and evaluation system, called MPLens, with three unique contributions. First, through MPLens, we demonstrate how membership inference attack methods …
Study membership inference under skewed priors and adaptive thresholds, improving attack accuracy.
problem Membership inference in imbalanced settings with selective thresholding.
method Developed PPV metric for skewed priors, threshold selection procedure, and a new inference attack.
result Improved inference attack accuracy in imbalanced settings.
In this paper we propose a new membership attack method called co-membership attacks against deep generative models including Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Specifically, membership attack aims to check whether a given instance x was used in the training data or not. A co-me…
New method for mixed memberships using symmetrized Laplacian inverse matrix.
problem Mixed memberships in community detection.
method Spectral clustering on symmetrized Laplacian inverse matrix.
result Mixed-SLIM methods outperform state-of-the-art methods.
The paper proposes a new model to analyze directed networks and accurately estimate community memberships.
problem Modeling and estimating community memberships in directed networks with heterogeneous degrees.
method Directed Degree Corrected Mixed Membership (DiDCMM) model and DiMSC algorithm.
result The proposed DiMSC algorithm is asymptotically consistent and provides error bounds for community membership vectors.
Paper evaluates membership inference attacks on transfer learning models.
problem Evaluating membership inference attacks on transfer learning models.
method Shadow model training strategy to derive data for membership inference classifier.
result Membership inference attacks can achieve effective performance against transfer learning models.
A new clustering method uses nonparametric smoothing to estimate cluster membership functions.
problem Clustering with flexible, nonparametric estimation.
method Nonparametric smoothing to estimate cluster membership functions without explicit modelling assumptions.
result The method automatically determines the number of clusters and level of flexibility.
DiMMSB models directed mixed membership networks, identifying distinct community structures.
problem Modeling directed mixed membership networks with distinct community structures.
method Directed Mixed Membership Stochastic Blockmodel (DiMMSB) with DiSP algorithm.
result DiSP algorithm is asymptotically consistent and outperforms competitors.
Proposes a new privacy notion for membership inference attacks on machine learning models.
problem Membership inference attacks on machine learning models.
method Introduces -Membership Inference Privacy (-MIP) and -Gaussian Membership Inference Privacy (-GMIP) to quantify and mitigate privacy risks.
result Analyzes likelihood ratio-based attacks and derives -GMIP guarantees for stochastic gradient descent (SGD) models.
The paper develops methods to infer membership probabilities and rank network nodes using the DCMM model.
problem Understanding the latent structure of network data, especially in mixed-membership models.
method Degree-Corrected Mixed Membership (DCMM) model, novel finite-sample expansion, asymptotic distributions, confidence intervals, multiplier bootstrap method.
result Valid inference on membership probabilities and node rankings, quantifying uncertainty.
Proposes a new model for mixed membership in Gaussian mixture.
problem Limited to single component membership in Gaussian mixture models.
method Mixed membership sub-Gaussian model, spectral algorithm.
result Estimation error can be made arbitrarily small with high probability.
Large capacity machine learning (ML) models are prone to membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer whether the target sample is a member of the target model's training dataset. The serious privacy concerns due to the membership inference have motivated multiple defenses against MIAs, e.g., differential pr…
New attacks can infer model training membership using only label predictions, not confidence.
problem Inferring whether a data point was used to train a machine learning model.
method Evaluate model's predicted labels under perturbations to infer membership.
result Label-only attacks perform as well as confidence-based attacks and break defenses that rely on confidence masking.
Human labeling of data can be very time-consuming and expensive, yet, in many cases it is critical for the success of the learning process. In order to minimize human labeling efforts, we propose a novel active learning solution that does not rely on existing sources of unlabeled data. It uses a small amount of labeled…
New method bounds membership inference attack success using mutual information.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to membership inference attacks.
method Extended Fano's inequality to measure mutual information between inputs and activations.
result Empirical evaluation shows strong correlation between mutual information and model susceptibility.
New algorithms save computation in agnostic learning with membership queries.
problem Efficiently learning touchstone classes with membership queries.
method Designing agnostic learning algorithms for circuits with sublinear gates.
result Agnostic learning algorithms for circuits with sublinear gates achieve significant computational savings.
Directional and pairwise measurements are often used to model inter-relationships in a social network setting. The Mixed-Membership Stochastic Blockmodel (MMSB) was a seminal work in this area, and many of its capabilities were extended since then. In this paper, we propose the \emph{Dynamic Infinite Mixed-Membership s…
Mixed membership factorization is a popular approach for analyzing data sets that have within-sample heterogeneity. In recent years, several algorithms have been developed for mixed membership matrix factorization, but they only guarantee estimates from a local optimum. Here, we derive a global optimization (GOP) algor…
A new model estimates mixed memberships for categorical data with weighted responses.
problem Limited applicability of existing GoM model to weighted categorical data.
method Proposes Weighted Grade of Membership (WGoM) model, relaxing distribution constraints.
result WGoM can describe any response matrix with finite distinct elements.
We consider the problem of estimating community memberships of nodes in a network, where every node is associated with a vector determining its degree of membership in each community. Existing provably consistent algorithms often require strong assumptions about the population, are computationally expensive, and only p…
New attacks reveal membership in label-only ML models.
problem Vulnerability of ML models to membership inference attacks.
method Developed decision-based membership inference attacks.
result Label-only exposures are vulnerable to membership leakage.
We show that the Membership Problem for finitely generated subgroups of 3-manifold groups is solvable.
Log-Loss scores expose membership privacy breaches.
problem Privacy leakage from statistical aggregates like Log-Loss scores.
method Proved that Log-Loss scores enable full accuracy membership inference in a single query.
result Complete membership privacy breach is possible with Log-Loss scores.
New model for detecting communities in weighted bipartite networks.
problem No model for community detection in overlapping bipartite weighted networks.
method Introduces BiMMDF model allowing any distribution with block structure.
result Efficient algorithm with theoretical guarantee of consistent estimation.
New methods estimate mixed memberships in multi-layer networks.
problem Complex community structure in multi-layer networks.
method Spectral methods using eigen-decomposition of aggregate matrices.
result Theoretical guarantees and empirical validation for mixed membership estimation.
New algorithm learns halfspaces with membership queries, achieving near optimal label complexity.
problem Learning halfspaces with membership queries.
method Proposed a new algorithm for learning halfspaces with membership queries, proving near optimal label complexity.
result Achieves near optimal label complexity for learning halfspaces.
Some Targets Are Harder to Identify than Others: Quantifying the Target-dependent Membership Leakagecs.LG
This paper quantifies how hard it is to identify specific data points in machine learning models.
problem Quantifying the difficulty of identifying specific data points in machine learning models.
method Characterizing optimal attacks and privacy defences, deriving impacts of noise and misspecification, and proposing a new covariance attack.
result The Mahalanobis distance explains the hardness of fixed-target membership inference attacks.
Mixed-SCORE+ improves community detection in weak signal networks.
problem Detecting communities in weak signal networks.
method Proposes Mixed-SCORE+ combining properties of Mixed-SCORE and SCORE+.
result Significantly improves detection error rates on Polblogs and weak signal networks.
In this article we discuss some of the consequences of the mixed membership perspective on time series analysis. In its most abstract form, a mixed membership model aims to associate an individual entity with some set of attributes based on a collection of observed data. Although much of the literature on mixed members…
A new MARL framework for community-based cooperation with transfer and active exploration.
problem Flexible coordination patterns in multi-agent systems with community structures.
method Community-based multi-agent reinforcement learning with transfer and active exploration.
result Provably convergent actor-critic algorithms for structured information sharing and transfer learning.
New algorithm reduces adaptive regret without projections.
problem Computational expense of projections in online convex optimization.
method Lazy gradient-based algorithm with set-membership computations.
result Near-optimal adaptive regret bounds for general convex functions.
New method uses model's generalization gap to predict membership inference attacks.
problem Predicting membership inference attacks on machine learning models.
method Uses the model's generalization gap as a metric to estimate the vulnerability to membership inference attacks.
result Demonstrates that the model's generalization gap provides an upper bound on MIA security.
A new model for detecting overlapping communities in weighted networks.
problem Community detection in overlapping weighted networks with mixed membership and edge weights.
method Mixed membership distribution-free (MMDF) model with an efficient spectral algorithm and fuzzy weighted modularity.
result The MMDF model can estimate community memberships and evaluate community quality for weighted networks.
Robust Trimmed k-meansstat.ML
Robust Trimmed k-means improves clustering with outliers and mixed data.
problem Real-world data often contains outliers and mixed membership clusters, complicating traditional clustering methods.
method Proposes Robust Trimmed k-means (RTKM) that robustifies k-means for both single- and multi-membership data.
result RTKM outperforms other methods on multi-membership data with outliers and single membership data with outliers.
Parameters or Privacy: A Provable Tradeoff Between Overparameterization and Membership Inferencestat.ML
Overparameterized models are more vulnerable to membership inference attacks.
problem Vulnerability of overparameterized models to membership inference attacks.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of overparameterized linear and ridge-regularized linear regression models in the Gaussian data setting.
result Increased number of parameters and model complexity increase vulnerability to membership inference attacks.
Study shows membership inference requires many more samples than training data.
problem Membership inference attacks require more reference samples than training data.
method Investigated the sample complexity for membership inference in Gaussian mean estimation.
result Ω(n + n^2 ρ^2) samples are necessary for successful membership inference attacks.
Paper proposes a new tensor model for mixed memberships and provides error bounds.
problem Estimating mixed memberships in higher-order multiway data.
method Tensor mixed-membership blockmodel, higher-order orthogonal iteration algorithm (HOOI), simplex corner-finding algorithm.
result Consistency of estimation procedure with error bounds under specific conditions.
We quantitatively investigate how machine learning models leak information about the individual data records on which they were trained. We focus on the basic membership inference attack: given a data record and black-box access to a model, determine if the record was in the model's training dataset. To perform members…
Defending Diffusion Models Against Membership Inference Attacks via Higher-Order Langevin Dynamicscs.LG
Paper defends diffusion models from membership inference attacks using Langevin dynamics.
problem Defending diffusion models against membership inference attacks.
method Uses critically-damped higher-order Langevin dynamics with auxiliary variables.
result Demonstrates improved resistance to membership inference attacks through theoretical investigation and validation.