arXiv:2604.19936v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: With the emergence of new evaluation metrics and attack methodologies for Membership Inference Attacks (MIA), it becomes essential to reevaluate previously accepted assumptions. In this paper, we revisit the longstanding debate regarding the correlation between MIA success rates and model generalization using an empirical approach. We focused on employing augmentation techniques and early stopping to enhance model generalization and examined their impact on MIA success rates. We found that utilizing advanced generalization techniques can significantly decrease attack performance, potentially by up to 100 times. Moreover, combining these methods not only improves model generalization but also reduces attack effectiveness by introducing randomness during training. Additionally, our study confirmed the direct impact of generalization on MIA performance through an analysis of over 1K models in a controlled environment.
Cognitive Alignment At No Cost: Inducing Human Attention Biases For Interpretable Vision Transformers
arXiv:2604.20027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For state-of-the-art image understanding, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the standard architecture but their processing diverges substantially from human attentional