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Black-Box Membership Inference via Word-Level Probability Estimation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 8, 2026 · UTC

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) have emerged as critical tools for auditing privacy risks in large language models (LLMs), aiming to determine whether a given text was included in a model's training corpus. However, most existing MIAs require access to per-token logits or probabilities, making them inapplicable in practice to proprietary LLMs that expose only textual continuations. To address this underexplored setting, we propose Word-level Probability MIA (WPMIA), a statistically principled MIA for strict black-box privacy auditing. WPMIA estimates word-level generation probabilities via

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