Assessing Per-Sample Membership Inference Vulnerability without Retraining
Recent work in the privacy literature shows that sample-targeted membership inference attacks (MIAs) significantly outperform untargeted approaches by a wide margin. Motivated by this observation, we address the following question: can the privacy vulnerability of individual training points be assessed without training shadow models? We show that per-sample exposure to MIA is governed not only by a point's loss, but also by a data-dependent geometric measure. In the linear setting, we derive a closed-form decomposition of individual black-box MIA vulnerability into a population leverage score and a residual loss term, making explicit how sample-dependent geometry translates into privacy exposure. Since the final layer of most modern architectures is linear, we extend this framework to deep networks and propose a surrogate score operating on last-layer representations that requires only a single trained model and no shadow models. Empirical evaluations across diverse datasets and architectures show that our score outperforms loss and gradient-norm baselines at identifying the highest-risk points under state-of-the-art attacks, providing a computationally efficient and theoretically grounded tool for per-sample privacy risk assessment.
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