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Projects, learnings, and the occasional everyday note.

• Jul 28, 2026
  Recovering confidence from labels alone 3/6

  Part 2 got us a baseline. Now we ask the model about wobbled copies of a point, and use how reliably it still gets them right as a stand-in for confidence. It beats the baseline, though the obvious way of counting the answers does worse than not augmenting at all.

  Project #ml-security #privacy #membership-inference #machine-learning #learning-log

• Jul 21, 2026
  The gap attack, and some ML fundamentals 2/6

  To build the gap attack I first had to learn how to train a neural network, so this post is mostly the ML setup (CNNs, tensors, loss, gradient descent), with the working attack at the end.

  Project #ml-security #privacy #membership-inference #machine-learning #learning-log

• Jul 13, 2026
  What is a membership inference attack? 1/6

  The first in a series cataloguing my journey reproducing papers I want to properly understand. Starting with the core idea and vocabulary of membership inference attacks.

  Project #ml-security #privacy #membership-inference #learning-log

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