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Modern machine learning pipelines leverage large amounts of public data, making it infeasible to guarantee data quality and leaving models open to poisoning and backdoor attacks. Provably bounding model behavior under such attacks remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Philip Sosnin , Mark N. Müller , Maximilian Baader , Calvin Tsay , Matthew Wicker

The parameters of support vector machines (SVMs) such as the penalty parameter and the kernel parameters have a great impact on the classification accuracy and the complexity of the SVM model. Therefore, the model selection in SVM involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Alaa Tharwat

In the world today computer networks have a very important position and most of the urban and national infrastructure as well as organizations are managed by computer networks, therefore, the security of these systems against the planned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Amir Moradibaad , Ramin Jalilian Mashhoud

Data poisoning is one of the most relevant security threats against machine learning and data-driven technologies. Since many applications rely on untrusted training data, an attacker can easily craft malicious samples and inject them into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nicolas M. Müller , Simon Roschmann , Konstantin Böttinger

This paper proposes an online environment poisoning algorithm tailored for reinforcement learning agents operating in a black-box setting, where an adversary deliberately manipulates training data to lead the agent toward a mischievous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jianhui Li , Bokang Zhang , Junfeng Wu

As pairwise ranking becomes broadly employed for elections, sports competitions, recommendations, and so on, attackers have strong motivation and incentives to manipulate the ranking list. They could inject malicious comparisons into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Jinshan Zeng , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

With the vigorous development of artificial intelligence technology, various engineering technology applications have been implemented one after another. The gradient descent method plays an important role in solving various optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Jinhuan Duan , Xianxian Li , Shiqi Gao , Jinyan Wang , Zili Zhong

Data poisoning causes misclassification of test time target examples by injecting maliciously crafted samples in the training data. Existing defenses are often effective only against a specific type of targeted attack, significantly degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yu Yang , Tian Yu Liu , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Prompt injection attack, where an attacker injects a prompt into the original one, aiming to make an Large Language Model (LLM) follow the injected prompt to perform an attacker-chosen task, represent a critical security threat. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zedian Shao , Hongbin Liu , Jaden Mu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in processing and generating human language, powered by their ability to interpret and follow instructions. However, their capabilities can be exploited through prompt injection attacks. These attacks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Xiaogeng Liu , Zhiyuan Yu , Yizhe Zhang , Ning Zhang , Chaowei Xiao

Support vector machines (SVM) can classify data sets along highly non-linear decision boundaries because of the kernel-trick. This expressiveness comes at a price: During test-time, the SVM classifier needs to compute the kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Zhixiang Xu , Jacob R. Gardner , Stephen Tyree , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Traditional adversarial attacks rely upon the perturbations generated by gradients from the network which are generally safeguarded by gradient guided search to provide an adversarial counterpart to the network. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ujjwal Upadhyay , Prerana Mukherjee

In traditional boosting algorithms, the focus on misclassified training samples emphasizes their importance based on difficulty during the learning process. While using a standard Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a weak learner in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junbo Jacob Lian

In this paper, we present new optimization models for Support Vector Machine (SVM), with the aim of separating data points in two or more classes. The classification task is handled by means of nonlinear classifiers induced by kernel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Francesca Maggioni , Andrea Spinelli

The recent success of machine learning (ML) has been fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large amounts of data in many different applications. However, the trustworthiness of the resulting models can be compromised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Kathrin Grosse , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli , Marcello Pelillo

Recommender systems play a crucial role in helping users to find their interested information in various web services such as Amazon, YouTube, and Google News. Various recommender systems, ranging from neighborhood-based,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hai Huang , Jiaming Mu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Qi Li , Bin Liu , Mingwei Xu

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is powerful classification technique based on the idea of structural risk minimization. Use of kernel function enables curse of dimensionality to be addressed. However, proper kernel function for certain problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Arindam Chaudhuri

Making learners robust to adversarial perturbation at test time (i.e., evasion attacks) or training time (i.e., poisoning attacks) has emerged as a challenging task. It is known that for some natural settings, sublinear perturbations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody

Steering vectors (SVs) have emerged as a promising approach for interpreting and controlling LLMs, but current methods typically require large contrastive datasets that are often impractical to construct and may capture spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jacob Dunefsky , Arman Cohan

In security-sensitive applications, the success of machine learning depends on a thorough vetting of their resistance to adversarial data. In one pertinent, well-motivated attack scenario, an adversary may attempt to evade a deployed system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Battista Biggio , Igino Corona , Davide Maiorca , Blaine Nelson , Nedim Srndic , Pavel Laskov , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli