Writing study: Black-box Membership Inference Attacks on the Pre-training Data of Image-generation Models

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← CVPR 2026 oral writing corpus

Tao Qi, Huili Wang, Yuanhong Huang, Wendan Wang, Lianchao Zhao, Jinrui Wang, Zichen Qin, Shangguang Wang, Yongfeng Huang · Official CVPR 2026 oral record

Observed writing choices, not acceptance rules. This study examines the inspected manuscript version. It does not establish why the paper was accepted or that its presentation choices should be copied unchanged.

Figure, table and section ledger

Editorial contribution type: Empirical analysis, diagnosis & auditing (primary).

Layout extraction, not a required paper template. Counts are distinct caption labels; a multi-panel figure counts once. Section spans are estimated from heading positions, including floats and whitespace. Method and limitations.

Canonical PDF

10 physical pages

Before references / appendix

≈ 8.14 page-equivalents

Main figures / tables

7 / 1

Attached appendix figures / tables

0 / 0

Attached appendix span

Separate file recorded below; not in this PDF total

Before references / appendix: ≈ 81.4%References / intervening material: ≈ 18.6%Estimated layout envelopes, not text/artwork area. Unresolved appendix boundaries remain within the undivided post-body material.

Extraction notes: No attached appendix boundary detected. Zero means no recognized caption, not independently verified absence.

Section-by-section lengths and source pages

The title/abstract/front matter precede the first numbered heading. A span ends at the next detected top-level heading, not at the last sentence; end-page whitespace is included. References and statements are listed separately. These are not measurements of text-only or artwork area.

Top-level heading	Starts on PDF page	Estimated span	Share of entire PDF
1. Introduction	1	≈ 1.01 pp.	10.1%
2. Related Work	2	≈ 0.48 pp.	4.8%
3. Methodology	2	≈ 2.93 pp.	29.3%
4. Experiment	5	≈ 3 pp.	30%
5. Conclusion	8	≈ 0.24 pp.	2.4%
Acknowledgments	9	≈ 0.1 pp.	1%
References	9	≈ 1.86 pp.	18.6%

All detected figure and table locations

Main text

• Figure 1 · p. 3
• Figure 2 · p. 4
• Table 1 · p. 6
• Figure 3 · p. 6
• Figure 4 · p. 7
• Figure 5 · p. 7
• Figure 6 · p. 8
• Figure 7 · p. 8

Attached appendix

No recognized caption labels.

Separate source files—excluded from canonical-PDF totals

A separate author version may repeat main text and references. Whole-file lengths and counts are not extra appendix material and are never added to the canonical PDF totals. Read the study's source scope for which sections received substantive reading versus layout inspection.

Additional source 1

Separate PDF (or ZIP containing it): whole-file layout of 3 physical pages; 2 detected figures and 2 tables. These may include overlapping main-text material.

Located appendix only: starts on physical p.1; ≈ 2.95 page-equivalents, 2 figure labels and 2 table labels. This interval is distinct from the whole file.

Detected heading	PDF page	Estimated span
6. Appendix	1	≈ 2.95 pp.

• Table 2 · p. 1
• Figure 8 · p. 2
• Figure 9 · p. 2
• Table 3 · p. 2

Argument and organization

1. Problem and contribution

   Separates weak pre-training memorization from easier fine-tuning membership experiments before introducing the cross-modal intervention.

2. Argument sequence

   States black-box access assumptions before motivation, perturbation construction, estimator and evaluation; this makes unavailable internal signals explicit.

3. Evidence and verification

   Table 1 repeats identical metric columns for balanced and imbalanced sampling and reports variability rather than collapsing all models into one gain.

Problem, claim and contribution

Separates weak pre-training memorization from easier fine-tuning membership experiments before introducing the cross-modal intervention.

Sections 1–2, pp. 1–2 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Argument and section order

States black-box access assumptions before motivation, perturbation construction, estimator and evaluation; this makes unavailable internal signals explicit.

Sections 3.1–4.1, pp. 2–6 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Figures, captions and visual explanation

Figure 2 puts visual and textual perturbation distributions side by side with shared member/non-member colors and explicit probability-density axes.

Figure 2, p. 4 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Tables, comparisons and evidence

Table 1 repeats identical metric columns for balanced and imbalanced sampling and reports variability rather than collapsing all models into one gain.

Table 1, p. 6 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Appendix and reproducibility

The supplement separates baseline access levels, diagnostic representation evidence, query-count trade-offs and literal perturbation prompts.

Supplement Sections 6.2–6.8, pp. 1–3 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Clarity and writing conventions

The run-in 'Our insight' heading separates an explanatory hypothesis from the preceding failure analysis.

Section 3.2, p. 4 · Main paper · Additional source 2

What to reuse—and what not to infer

Transferable lesson: Pair a diagnostic contrast with access-matched evaluation and state what repeated-generation budget buys.

Boundary: Near-chance embedding classification and a two-dimensional PCA plot do not establish complete absence of dataset bias; avoid repeating that stronger wording as a general guarantee.

Apply this lesson using the argument and evidence worksheet.

Inspection record and sources

Checked

2026-09-26

Reading status

Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Main text

Writing-oriented scan throughout Sections 1–5, PDF pp. 1–8; reference boundary pp. 9–10: abstract/framing, section sequence, figure/table captions, evaluation organization and conclusions; not an exhaustive technical verification.

Appendix / supplement

Writing-oriented supplement scan: Supplement Sections 6.1–6.8, pp. 1–3, including access assumptions, gray-box diagnostic support, generation budgets and actual prompts. Video/code assets were not executed or assessed.

Visually inspected PDF pages

4, 6

This is a writing-focused scan of the manuscript and the stated supplementary scope: framing, organization, visual explanation, evidence presentation and wording. It is not a line-by-line proof audit, reproduction of results or exhaustive scientific review.

• Official CVF open-access CVPR 2026 accepted-paper PDF · 10 pages
• Official CVF supplementary PDF · 3 pages