Fair Finetuning Mitigates Distribution Inference Attacks
Machine learning models trained on sensitive data can inadvertently leak population-level information about their training distributions -- a threat known as distribution inference attack (DIA). An adversary with black-box access can infer sensitive demographic properties, such as subgroup proportions, without observing any training data directly. While defenses such as differential privacy and property unlearning have been proposed, the link between fairness constraints and distributional leaka
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Published: 1 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Privacy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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