Artificial Intelligence · 10.08.2026, 08:10 UTC
Where Rectified Flows Leak: Characterising Membership Signals Along the Interpolation Path
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.AI ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 10.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2606.07271v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding memorization in generative models remains challenging, with implications for copyright and privacy. Beyond verbatim reproduction, models can encode subtler traces of their training data that never surface in their outputs yet remain exploitable. We refer to these measurable asymmetries as the \emph{membership signal}, and we study this regime for Rectified Flows (or Flow Matching), which are increasingly used in deployed generative systems. We analyze the interpolation path $X_\lambda = (1-\lambda)X_0 + \lambda X_1$ that defines the Rectified Flow training. We show that a gap exists between the reconstruction of train and test data that follows a bell-shaped curve over $\lambda$, which accumulates during training, while the validation metrics remain stable. The signal has a maximum whose location we derive in closed form under Gaussian assumptions. We validate these predictions on both audio and images and show that the bell-shaped structure is universal, while the peak prediction holds when our assumptions are satisfied. As a proof of concept, we exploit this specific $\lambda$-resolved structure to perform a Membership Inference Attack, distinguishing members of the training set from non-members.