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With the increase in machine learning (ML) applications in different domains, incentives for deceiving these models have reached more than ever. As data is the core backbone of ML algorithms, attackers shifted their interest toward…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta , Mahmoud Abdelsalam

In a \emph{data poisoning attack}, an attacker modifies, deletes, and/or inserts some training examples to corrupt the learnt machine learning model. \emph{Bootstrap Aggregating (bagging)} is a well-known ensemble learning method, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Jinyuan Jia , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

This paper investigates some of the risks introduced by "LLM poisoning," the intentional or unintentional introduction of malicious or biased data during model training. We demonstrate how a seemingly improved LLM, fine-tuned on a limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Patrick Karlsen , Even Eilertsen

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

Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are a crucial tool for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where exploration is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. However, the extent to which such methods can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Elita Lobo , Harvineet Singh , Marek Petrik , Cynthia Rudin , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Recently, NLP has seen a surge in the usage of large pre-trained models. Users download weights of models pre-trained on large datasets, then fine-tune the weights on a task of their choice. This raises the question of whether downloading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Keita Kurita , Paul Michel , Graham Neubig

Deep learning models are often trained on distributed, web-scale datasets crawled from the internet. In this paper, we introduce two new dataset poisoning attacks that intentionally introduce malicious examples to a model's performance. Our…

In adversarial machine learning, new defenses against attacks on deep learning systems are routinely broken soon after their release by more powerful attacks. In this context, forensic tools can offer a valuable complement to existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Shawn Shan , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Neural networks are successfully used in a variety of applications, many of them having safety and security concerns. As a result researchers have proposed formal verification techniques for verifying neural network properties. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Youcheng Sun , Muhammad Usman , Divya Gopinath , Corina S. Păsăreanu

Recent research has highlighted the vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) against data poisoning attacks. These attacks aim to inject poisoning samples into the models' training dataset such that the trained models have inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pengfei He , Han Xu , Jie Ren , Yingqian Cui , Hui Liu , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

Model inversion attacks pose a significant privacy threat to machine learning models by reconstructing sensitive data from their outputs. While various defenses have been proposed to counteract these attacks, they often come at the cost of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Shuai Zhou , Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou

Semi-supervised machine learning models learn from a (small) set of labeled training examples, and a (large) set of unlabeled training examples. State-of-the-art models can reach within a few percentage points of fully-supervised training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Nicholas Carlini

A powerful category of (invisible) data poisoning attacks modify a subset of training examples by small adversarial perturbations to change the prediction of certain test-time data. Existing defense mechanisms are not desirable to deploy in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tian Yu Liu , Yu Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

We consider availability data poisoning attacks, where an adversary aims to degrade the overall test accuracy of a machine learning model by crafting small perturbations to its training data. Existing poisoning strategies can achieve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yiyong Liu , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Data poisoning attacks spoof a recommender system to make arbitrary, attacker-desired recommendations via injecting fake users with carefully crafted rating scores into the recommender system. We envision a cat-and-mouse game for such data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jinyuan Jia , Yupei Liu , Yuepeng Hu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Gradient attacks and data poisoning tamper with the training of machine learning algorithms to maliciously alter them and have been proven to be equivalent in convex settings. The extent of harm these attacks can produce in non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Wassim Bouaziz , El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi , Nicolas Usunier

The increased integration of clean yet stochastic energy resources and the growing number of extreme weather events are narrowing the decision-making window of power grid operators. This time constraint is fueling a plethora of research on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Nora Agah , Meiyi Li , Javad Mohammadi

Data Poisoning (DP) is an effective attack that causes trained classifiers to misclassify their inputs. DP attacks significantly degrade a classifier's accuracy by covertly injecting attack samples into the training set. Broadly applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Xi Li , David J. Miller , Zhen Xiang , George Kesidis

Many machine learning systems rely on data collected in the wild from untrusted sources, exposing the learning algorithms to data poisoning. Attackers can inject malicious data in the training dataset to subvert the learning process,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-04 Andrea Paudice , Luis Muñoz-González , Emil C. Lupu

Data-driven predictive control (DPC) is a feedback control method for systems with unknown dynamics. It repeatedly optimizes a system's future trajectories based on past input-output data. We develop a numerical method that computes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Yue Yu , Ruihan Zhao , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu