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arxiv: 2606.26257 · v1 · pith:YZDQOMH2new · submitted 2026-06-24 · 💻 cs.LG

Dataset Usage Inference without Shadow Models or Held-out Data

Wojciech {\L}apacz , Stanis{\l}aw Pawlak , Jan Dubi\'nski , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic This is my paper

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keywords dataset usage inferencemembership signalssynthetic non-membersmixture proportion estimationgenerative modelsmachine learning
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The pith

A framework estimates the fraction of a dataset used to train a model without shadow models or real held-out data.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a Dataset Usage Inference method that avoids training expensive shadow models and does not require a confirmed held-out set known to be absent from training. It generates synthetic non-member samples instead, extracts multiple membership signals from the target model, and treats the task as a mixture proportion estimation problem to recover what share of a candidate dataset entered training. Experiments on large image generative models indicate the estimates are reliable under these relaxed conditions. This matters because prior approaches become unusable for modern large models and real data ownership questions where the required data and compute are unavailable.

Core claim

The authors claim that by generating synthetic non-member samples, extracting diverse membership signals, and casting DUI as a mixture proportion estimation problem, one can accurately quantify the share of a candidate dataset used during training, as shown by reliable results on large image generative models.

What carries the argument

Mixture proportion estimation applied to membership signals extracted from synthetically generated non-member samples

Load-bearing premise

Synthetic non-member samples must generate membership signals sufficiently similar to those from real held-out data for the mixture proportion estimates to be accurate.

What would settle it

A controlled test on a model whose exact training data fraction is known in advance, where the method's output deviates substantially from the true fraction, would show the approach fails.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.26257 by Adam Dziedzic, Franziska Boenisch, Jan Dubi\'nski, Stanis{\l}aw Pawlak, Wojciech {\L}apacz.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of NU-DUI. Given a suspect set, we generate a synthetic non-member reference set with Stable Diffusion img2img and autoencode the suspect set with the same autoencoder to reduce distribution shift. We then query the target model on both sets, extract MIA features, and apply mixture proportion estimation to infer what fraction of the suspect set was used for training. per-sample membership signals … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Examples of synthetic non-members and autoencoded suspect images. For each real ImageNet sample x ∈ Xreal, we show the autoencoded reconstruction x AE = D(E(x)) that we use as the unlabeled set U, and the cross-family image-to-image paraphrase x img2img nonmember = G(x, pc; s, g) that we use as the synthetic non-member set N. Extracting MIA Features Given the unlabeled set U and the synthetic negative set … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Estimated member ratios. We show estimated member ratios across evalu￾ated models for varying ground￾truth p under three reference conditions: real non-members (ideal but unrealistic), synthetic non-members with real unla￾beled set, and synthetic non￾members with autoencoded un￾labeled set (our NU-DUI). We vary the true member ratio p ∈ (0, 1] and the suspect-set size |U| to assess robustness across realis… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Same-family vs. cross-family synthetic non-member generation. Estimated pˆ vs. true p. Same-family generation pulls pˆ off the ground truth, while cross-family generation tracks it closely. 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Density of membership scores produced by a PUL classifier. The unlabeled set U is treated as a mixture of positive and negative samples; hN and hU are the score histograms of the known synthetic negatives (N) and the unlabeled set (U), respectively. In each bin, the portion of hU that lies above hN reflects positives, i.e., the “excess mass.” Integrating this excess across all bins recovers the estimated f… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

How much of my data was used to train a machine learning model? Dataset Usage Inference (DUI) aims to answer this by estimating what fraction of a dataset contributed to a model's training. However, existing DUI methods rely on assumptions that rarely hold in practice: they require training expensive shadow models to imitate the target model, and they assume access to both known training samples and an in-distribution held-out set confirmed to be absent from training. These conditions make current approaches impractical for modern large models and real data ownership disputes. We introduce a practical DUI framework that removes these constraints. Our method requires neither shadow models nor real held-out data. Instead, it generates synthetic non-member samples, extracts diverse membership signals, and casts DUI as a mixture proportion estimation problem to estimate what share of the candidate dataset was used during training. Experiments on large image generative models show that our method reliably quantifies dataset usage, providing a practical tool for data owners to determine how much of their data was used to train a model.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper claims to introduce a practical Dataset Usage Inference (DUI) framework that estimates the fraction of a candidate dataset used to train a model without shadow models or real held-out data. It generates synthetic non-member samples, extracts diverse membership signals, and reduces DUI to a mixture proportion estimation problem. The abstract asserts that experiments on large image generative models demonstrate reliable quantification of dataset usage.

Significance. If the result holds, the method would remove major practical barriers (computational cost of shadow models and need for confirmed held-out data) that currently limit DUI to small-scale or artificial settings. This could enable data owners to audit usage in modern large models, with implications for privacy, copyright, and data ownership disputes. The paper receives credit for framing the problem as an external mixture estimation task rather than an internally fitted quantity.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that experiments 'show that our method reliably quantifies dataset usage' is unsupported by any quantitative results, error analysis, baselines, or validation metrics in the provided text. Soundness cannot be assessed from the abstract alone.
  2. Method (as described in abstract): the mixture proportion estimator recovers the true usage fraction only if the membership-signal distribution induced by the synthetic non-members is statistically close to that of genuine non-members. Any systematic shift biases the recovered mixing weight. The text supplies no construction details for the synthetic samples nor any empirical test (e.g., Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic or moment matching) that the two distributions are sufficiently aligned.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the acronym 'DUI' is introduced after the first use of the full term; ensure consistent abbreviation on first occurrence.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed review and constructive comments. We address each major point below. The abstract is a high-level summary; the full manuscript contains the supporting experiments, method details, and evaluations. Where the comments identify gaps in the current presentation, we indicate planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that experiments 'show that our method reliably quantifies dataset usage' is unsupported by any quantitative results, error analysis, baselines, or validation metrics in the provided text. Soundness cannot be assessed from the abstract alone.

    Authors: We agree that an abstract cannot substitute for the full experimental section. The manuscript body reports quantitative results on large image generative models, including error metrics, baseline comparisons, and validation against known usage fractions. To address the concern, we will revise the abstract to include a brief reference to the key quantitative findings (e.g., mean absolute error ranges) while remaining within length limits, and we will ensure the abstract explicitly points to the experimental section for full details. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [—] Method (as described in abstract): the mixture proportion estimator recovers the true usage fraction only if the membership-signal distribution induced by the synthetic non-members is statistically close to that of genuine non-members. Any systematic shift biases the recovered mixing weight. The text supplies no construction details for the synthetic samples nor any empirical test (e.g., Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic or moment matching) that the two distributions are sufficiently aligned.

    Authors: The referee correctly identifies a critical assumption. The method section details the procedure for generating synthetic non-member samples (via controlled perturbations and out-of-distribution sampling) and presents empirical comparisons of membership-signal distributions. However, we did not include formal statistical tests such as Kolmogorov-Smirnov or moment-matching statistics. We will add these explicit alignment tests in the revision, along with sensitivity analysis showing the effect of any residual distributional shift on the recovered mixing weights. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: DUI framed as reduction to external mixture proportion estimation

full rationale

The paper's core claim is that DUI can be solved by generating synthetic non-members, extracting membership signals, and solving a standard mixture proportion estimation problem. This reduction is to an external statistical primitive rather than a quantity defined inside the paper or fitted to the target result itself. No self-definitional equations, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided abstract or description. The method is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks for mixture estimation, warranting a score of 0.

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