Am I a Member? Auditing Private Machine Learning
- đ¤ Speaker: Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto đ Website
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 21 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- đ Venue: Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.
Abstract
Current privacy evaluations in machine learning (ML) rely predominantly on membership inference attacks to validate claims of differential privacy and machine unlearning. By framing ML regulation as a Principal-Agent problem, we demonstrate that regulators cannot rely on such attacks alone due to information asymmetry. This can lead to a false sense of privacy for individuals whose data is being analyzed. Consequently, we advocate for a paradigm shift from statistical auditing to algorithmic guarantees. We conclude on the role that cryptography will play for these algorithmic guarantees to be verifiable by third parties.
Series This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Security Seminar series.
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Tuesday 21 April 2026, 14:00-15:00