Model-Inversion-Attack-ToolBox

Model Inversion Attack ToolBox v2.0

Yixiang Qiu*, Hongyao Yu*, Hao Fang*, Wenbo Yu, Bin Chen#, Xuan Wang, Shu-Tao Xia

Our survey paper about model inversion (Privacy Leakage on DNNs: A Survey of Model Inversion Attacks and Defenses) has been accepted by the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2026!

Welcome to MIA! This repository is a comprehensive open-source Python benchmark for model inversion attacks, which is well-organized and easy to get started. It includes uniform implementations of advanced and representative model inversion methods, formulating a unified and reliable framework for a convenient and fair comparison between different model inversion methods. Our repository is continuously updated in https://github.com/ffhibnese/Model-Inversion-Attack-ToolBox.

If you have any concerns about our toolbox, feel free to contact us at [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].

Also, you are always welcome to contribute and make this repository better!

:rocket: Introduction

Model inversion attack is an emerging powerful private data theft attack, where a malicious attacker is able to reconstruct data with the same distribution as the training dataset of the target model.

The reason why we developed this toolbox is that the research line of MI suffers from a lack of unified standards and reliable implementations of former studies. We hope our work can further help people in this area and promote the progress of their valuable research.

:bulb: Features

• Easy to get started.
• Provide all the pre-trained model files.
• Always up to date.
• Well organized and encapsulated.
• A unified and fair comparison between attack methods.

:memo: Model Inversion Attacks

Method	Paper	Publication	Scenario	Key Characteristics
DeepInversion	Dreaming to Distill: Data-Free Knowledge Transfer via DeepInversion	CVPR'2020	whitebox	student-teacher, data-free
GMI	The Secret Revealer: Generative Model-Inversion Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks	CVPR'2020	whitebox	the first GAN-based MIA, instance-level
KEDMI	Knowledge-Enriched Distributional Model Inversion Attacks	ICCV'2021	whitebox	the first MIA that recovers data distributions, pseudo-labels
VMI	Variational Model Inversion Attacks	NeurIPS'2021	whitebox	variational inference, special loss function
SecretGen	SecretGen: Privacy Recovery on Pre-trained Models via Distribution Discrimination	ECCV'2022	whitebox, blackbox	instance-level, data augmentation
BREPMI	Label-Only Model Inversion Attacks via Boundary Repulsion	CVPR'2022	blackbox	boundary repelling, label-only
Mirror	MIRROR: Model Inversion for Deep Learning Network with High Fidelity	NDSS'2022	whitebox, blackbox	both gradient-free and gradient-based, genetic algorithm
PPA	Plug & Play Attacks: Towards Robust and Flexible Model Inversion Attacks	ICML'2022	whitebox	Initial selection, pre-trained GANs, results selection
PLGMI	Pseudo Label-Guided Model Inversion Attack via Conditional Generative Adversarial Network	AAAI'2023	whitebox	pseudo-labels, data augmentation, special loss function
C2FMI	C2FMI: Corse-to-Fine Black-box Model Inversion Attack	TDSC'2023	whitebox, blackbox	gradient-free, two-stage
LOMMA	Re-Thinking Model Inversion Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks	CVPR'2023	blackbox	special loss, model augmentation
RLBMI	Reinforcement Learning-Based Black-Box Model Inversion Attacks	CVPR'2023	blackbox	reinforcement learning
LOKT	Label-Only Model Inversion Attacks via Knowledge Transfer	NeurIPS'2023	blackbox	surrogate models, label-only
IF-GMI	A Closer Look at GAN Priors: Exploiting Intermediate Features for Enhanced Model Inversion Attacks	ECCV'2024	whitebox	intermeidate feature

:memo: Model Inversion Defenses

Method	Paper	Publication	Key Characteristics
VIB / MID	Improving Robustness to Model Inversion Attacks via Mutual Information Regularization	AAAI'2021	variational method, mutual information, special loss function
BiDO	Bilateral Dependency Optimization: Defending Against Model-inversion Attacks	KDD'2022	special loss function
TL	Model Inversion Robustness: Can Transfer Learning Help?	CVPR'2024	transfer learning
LS	Be Careful What You Smooth For: Label Smoothing Can Be a Privacy Shield but Also a Catalyst for Model Inversion Attacks	ICLR'2024	label smoothing

:wrench: Environments

MIA can be built up with the following steps:

1. Clone this repository and create the virtual environment by Anaconda.

git clone https://github.com/ffhibnese/Model_Inversion_Attack_ToolBox.git
cd ./Model_Inversion_Attack_ToolBox
conda create -n MIA python=3.10
conda activate MIA

1. Install the related dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

:page_facing_up: Preprocess Datasets and Pre-trained Models

See here for details to preprocess datasets.

We have released pre-trained target models and evaluation models in the checkpoints_v2.0 of Google Drive.

Citation

If you find our work helpful for your research, please kindly cite our papers:

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:sparkles: Acknowledgement

We express great gratitude for all the researchers' contributions to the Model Inversion community.

In particular, we thank the authors of PLGMI for their high-quality codes for datasets, metrics, and three attack methods. It's their great devotion that helps us make MIA better!