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Machine learning based data-driven technologies have shown impressive performances in a variety of application domains. Most enterprises use data from multiple sources to provide quality applications. The reliability of the external data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Rosni K Vasu , Sanjay Seetharaman , Shubham Malaviya , Manish Shukla , Sachin Lodha

Deep learning models have recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning, an insidious attack where the victim model predicts clean images correctly but classifies the same images as the target class when a trigger poison pattern is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alvin Chan , Yew-Soon Ong

Biometric systems, such as face recognition systems powered by deep neural networks (DNNs), rely on large and highly sensitive datasets. Backdoor attacks can subvert these systems by manipulating the training process. By inserting a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Farah Wahida , M. A. P. Chamikara , Yashothara Shanmugarasa , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Thilina Ranbaduge , Ibrahim Khalil

Recommender systems have become an integral part of online services to help users locate specific information in a sea of data. However, existing studies show that some recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Thanh Toan Nguyen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Matthias Weidlich , Hongzhi Yin

Speaker Verification (SV) is widely deployed in mobile systems to authenticate legitimate users by using their voice traits. In this work, we propose a backdoor attack MASTERKEY, to compromise the SV models. Different from previous attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Hanqing Guo , Xun Chen , Junfeng Guo , Li Xiao , Qiben Yan

Predictions of certifiably robust classifiers remain constant in a neighborhood of a point, making them resilient to test-time attacks with a guarantee. In this work, we present a previously unrecognized threat to robust machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Akshay Mehra , Bhavya Kailkhura , Pin-Yu Chen , Jihun Hamm

Data poisoning is a training-time attack that undermines the trustworthiness of learned models. In a targeted data poisoning attack, an adversary manipulates the training dataset to alter the classification of a targeted test point. Given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nakshatra Gupta , Sumanth Prabhu , Supratik Chakraborty , R Venkatesh

We consider data poisoning attacks, a class of adversarial attacks on machine learning where an adversary has the power to alter a small fraction of the training data in order to make the trained classifier satisfy certain objectives. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yizhen Wang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

The financial industry relies on deep learning models for making important decisions. This adoption brings new danger, as deep black-box models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In computer vision, one can shape the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alina Ermilova , Elizaveta Kovtun , Dmitry Berestnev , Alexey Zaytsev

Data poisoning attacks and backdoor attacks aim to corrupt a machine learning classifier via modifying, adding, and/or removing some carefully selected training examples, such that the corrupted classifier makes incorrect predictions as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Jinyuan Jia , Yupei Liu , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Data poisoning attacks compromise the integrity of machine-learning models by introducing malicious training samples to influence the results during test time. In this work, we investigate backdoor data poisoning attack on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mahesh Subedar , Nilesh Ahuja , Ranganath Krishnan , Ibrahima J. Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

Various attack methods against recommender systems have been proposed in the past years, and the security issues of recommender systems have drawn considerable attention. Traditional attacks attempt to make target items recommended to as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dazhong Rong , Qinming He , Jianhai Chen

Under a commonly-studied backdoor poisoning attack against classification models, an attacker adds a small trigger to a subset of the training data, such that the presence of this trigger at test time causes the classifier to always predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mingjie Sun , Siddhant Agarwal , J. Zico Kolter

AI-based code generators have become pivotal in assisting developers in writing software starting from natural language (NL). However, they are trained on large amounts of data, often collected from unsanitized online sources (e.g., GitHub,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Domenico Cotroneo , Cristina Improta , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

We introduce camouflaged data poisoning attacks, a new attack vector that arises in the context of machine unlearning and other settings when model retraining may be induced. An adversary first adds a few carefully crafted points to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jimmy Z. Di , Jack Douglas , Jayadev Acharya , Gautam Kamath , Ayush Sekhari

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

Research in adversarial machine learning (AML) has shown that statistical models are vulnerable to maliciously altered data. However, despite advances in Bayesian machine learning models, most AML research remains concentrated on classical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Matthieu Carreau , Roi Naveiro , William N. Caballero

One of the most concerning threats for modern AI systems is data poisoning, where the attacker injects maliciously crafted training data to corrupt the system's behavior at test time. Availability poisoning is a particularly worrisome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Sebastiano Vascon , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli , Marcello Pelillo

Federated recommendation is a prominent use case within federated learning, yet it remains susceptible to various attacks, from user to server-side vulnerabilities. Poisoning attacks are particularly notable among user-side attacks, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ming Yin , Yichang Xu , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

While machine learning (ML) models are being increasingly trusted to make decisions in different and varying areas, the safety of systems using such models has become an increasing concern. In particular, ML models are often trained on data…