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We study indiscriminate poisoning for linear learners where an adversary injects a few crafted examples into the training data with the goal of forcing the induced model to incur higher test error. Inspired by the observation that linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fnu Suya , Xiao Zhang , Yuan Tian , David Evans

This paper's main goal is to provide an attacker's point of view on data poisoning assaults that use label-flipping during the training phase of systems that use electroencephalogram (EEG) signals to evaluate human emotion. To attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Zhibo Zhang , Ahmed Y. Al Hammadi , Ernesto Damiani , Chan Yeob Yeun

Backdoor attacks have been shown to impose severe threats to real security-critical scenarios. Although previous works can achieve high attack success rates, they either require access to victim models which may significantly reduce their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jingke Zhao , Zan Wang , Yongwei Wang , Lanjun Wang

Pathology diagnosis based on EEG signals and decoding brain activity holds immense importance in understanding neurological disorders. With the advancement of artificial intelligence methods and machine learning techniques, the potential…

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

Regression models are widely used in industrial processes, engineering, and in natural and physical sciences, yet their robustness to poisoning has received less attention. When it has, studies often assume unrealistic threat models and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Javier Carnerero-Cano , Luis Muñoz-González , Phillippa Spencer , Emil C. Lupu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are of great interest in vulnerability detection and repair. The effectiveness of these models hinges on the quality of the datasets used for both training and evaluation. Our investigation reveals that a number…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Anurag Swarnim Yadav , Joseph N. Wilson

Contrastive learning pre-trains an image encoder using a large amount of unlabeled data such that the image encoder can be used as a general-purpose feature extractor for various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose PoisonedEncoder, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Hongbin Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained increasing popularity and versatility in recent decades, finding applications in diverse domains. These remarkable achievements are greatly attributed to the support of extensive datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Xin Zhang , Yuqi Song , Wyatt McCurdy , Xiaofeng Wang , Fei Zuo

We introduce a new class of attacks on machine learning models. We show that an adversary who can poison a training dataset can cause models trained on this dataset to leak significant private details of training points belonging to other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Florian Tramèr , Reza Shokri , Ayrton San Joaquin , Hoang Le , Matthew Jagielski , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini

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

Adversarial training (AT) is a robust learning algorithm that can defend against adversarial attacks in the inference phase and mitigate the side effects of corrupted data in the training phase. As such, it has become an indispensable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Song , Bo Han , Lei Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Transfer learning (TL) has been widely used in electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for reducing calibration efforts. However, backdoor attacks could be introduced through TL. In such attacks, an attacker embeds…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-16 X. Jiang , L. Meng , S. Li , D. Wu

Currently, sample-specific backdoor attacks (SSBAs) are the most advanced and malicious methods since they can easily circumvent most of the current backdoor defenses. In this paper, we reveal that SSBAs are not sufficiently stealthy due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mingyan Zhu , Yiming Li , Junfeng Guo , Tao Wei , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhan Qin

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Specifically, by injecting a small number of maliciously constructed inputs into the training set, an adversary is able to plant a backdoor into the trained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-10 Alexander Turner , Dimitris Tsipras , Aleksander Madry

We design blackbox transfer-based targeted adversarial attacks for an environment where the attacker's source model and the target blackbox model may have disjoint label spaces and training datasets. This scenario significantly differs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Nathan Inkawhich , Kevin J Liang , Jingyang Zhang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

In the domain of backdoor attacks, accurate labeling of injected data is essential for evading rudimentary detection mechanisms. This imperative has catalyzed the development of clean-label attacks, which are notably more elusive as they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Binhao Ma , Jiahui Wang , Dejun Wang , Bo Meng

Few-shot learning amounts to learning representations and acquiring knowledge such that novel tasks may be solved with both supervision and data being limited. Improved performance is possible by transductive inference, where the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki , Yannis Avrithis

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a designed trigger is injected into the dataset, causing erroneous predictions when activated. In this paper, we propose a novel defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenjie Huo , Katinka Wolter

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in practice. Arguably, the rapid development of DNNs is largely benefited from high-quality (open-sourced) datasets, based on which researchers and developers can easily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Yiming Li , Yang Bai , Yong Jiang , Yong Yang , Shu-Tao Xia , Bo Li