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Data poisoning is a threat model in which a malicious actor tampers with training data to manipulate outcomes at inference time. A variety of defenses against this threat model have been proposed, but each suffers from at least one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Gowthami Somepalli , Micah Goldblum , Michael Moeller , Tom Goldstein

Data poisoning is an adversarial scenario where an attacker feeds a specially crafted sequence of samples to an online model in order to subvert learning. We introduce Lethean Attack, a novel data poisoning technique that induces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Eyal Perry

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

Data poisoning attacks aim to manipulate the model produced by a learning algorithm by adversarially modifying the training set. We consider differential privacy as a defensive measure against this type of attack. We show that such learners…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Yuzhe Ma , Xiaojin Zhu , Justin Hsu

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

This work introduces a verification framework that provides both sound and complete guarantees for data poisoning attacks during neural network training. We formulate adversarial data manipulation, model training, and test-time evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Philip Sosnin , Jodie Knapp , Fraser Kennedy , Josh Collyer , Calvin Tsay

A number of online services nowadays rely upon machine learning to extract valuable information from data collected in the wild. This exposes learning algorithms to the threat of data poisoning, i.e., a coordinate attack in which a fraction…

This demo paper examines the susceptibility of Federated Learning (FL) systems to targeted data poisoning attacks, presenting a novel system for visualizing and mitigating such threats. We simulate targeted data poisoning attacks via label…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xueqing Zhang , Junkai Zhang , Ka-Ho Chow , Juntao Chen , Ying Mao , Mohamed Rahouti , Xiang Li , Yuchen Liu , Wenqi Wei

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

Machine learning models are brittle, and small changes in the training data can result in different predictions. We study the problem of proving that a prediction is robust to data poisoning, where an attacker can inject a number of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Samuel Drews , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

The lifecycle of large language models (LLMs) is far more complex than that of traditional machine learning models, involving multiple training stages, diverse data sources, and varied inference methods. While prior research on data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Pengfei He , Yue Xing , Han Xu , Zhen Xiang , Jiliang Tang

Instruction tuning is an effective technique to align large language models (LLMs) with human intents. In this work, we investigate how an adversary can exploit instruction tuning by injecting specific instruction-following examples into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Manli Shu , Jiongxiao Wang , Chen Zhu , Jonas Geiping , Chaowei Xiao , Tom Goldstein

Machine learning models trained on data from the outside world can be corrupted by data poisoning attacks that inject malicious points into the models' training sets. A common defense against these attacks is data sanitization: first filter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-06 Pang Wei Koh , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

Large language models (LLMs) are often fine-tuned on uncurated text datasets that adversaries can poison. Existing poisoning attacks primarily rely on fixed trigger phrases that defenses such as outlier detection, clean-data regularization,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zedian Shao , Charles Fleming , Teodora Baluta

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

Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to introduce unexpected behaviors into machine learning models at training time. For text-to-image generative models with massive training datasets, current understanding of poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shawn Shan , Wenxin Ding , Josephine Passananti , Stanley Wu , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Data poisoning considers cases when an adversary manipulates the behavior of machine learning algorithms through malicious training data. Existing threat models of data poisoning center around a single metric, the number of poisoned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Wenxiao Wang , Soheil Feizi

As in-the-wild data are increasingly involved in the training stage, machine learning applications become more susceptible to data poisoning attacks. Such attacks typically lead to test-time accuracy degradation or controlled misprediction.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Yun Shen , Cong Wang , Yang Zhang

Machine learning models have achieved great success in supervised learning tasks for end-to-end training, which requires a large amount of labeled data that is not always feasible. Recently, many practitioners have shifted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yiwei Lu , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu

We present a data poisoning attack -- Phantom Transfer -- with the property that, even if you know precisely how the poison was placed into an otherwise benign dataset, you cannot filter it out. We achieve this by modifying subliminal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andrew Draganov , Tolga H. Dur , Anandmayi Bhongade , Mary Phuong