[License Audit] membership-inference-attacks package in examples/PIPL not found on PyPI — undocumented dependency #858

/kind bug
/kind documentation

Summary

During a license scan across example requirements.txt files, membership-inference-attacks listed in examples/PIPL/edge-cloud_collaborative_learning_bench/requirements.txt was not found on PyPI.

Details

• Package name: membership-inference-attacks
• File: examples/PIPL/edge-cloud_collaborative_learning_bench/requirements.txt
• PyPI status: 404 — no package by this name exists

Possible causes

• Typo in the package name
• Package was renamed or yanked from PyPI
• Meant to be installed from a private index or GitHub source
• Should be installed manually and is not a pip-installable package

Impact

Any new contributor following the documented setup will hit pip install failure with no clear error message about why the package doesn't exist.

Proposed Resolution

• Identify the correct package name or installation source
• Update requirements.txt with the correct reference (e.g. GitHub URL if not on PyPI)
• Document the installation step in the example README

Method

Verified via pip install membership-inference-attacks returning ERROR: Could not find a version and confirmed absence on pypi.org.