English
Related papers

Related papers: Subpopulation Data Poisoning Attacks

200 papers

Machine learning algorithms are known to be susceptible to data poisoning attacks, where an adversary manipulates the training data to degrade performance of the resulting classifier. In this work, we present a unifying view of randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Elan Rosenfeld , Ezra Winston , Pradeep Ravikumar , J. Zico Kolter

To promote secure and private artificial intelligence (SPAI), we review studies on the model security and data privacy of DNNs. Model security allows system to behave as intended without being affected by malicious external influences that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Ho Bae , Jaehee Jang , Dahuin Jung , Hyemi Jang , Heonseok Ha , Hyungyu Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Poisoning attacks are a primary threat to machine learning models, aiming to compromise their performance and reliability by manipulating training datasets. This paper introduces a novel attack - Outlier-Oriented Poisoning (OOP) attack,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Anum Paracha , Junaid Arshad , Mohamed Ben Farah , Khalid Ismail

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models have vulnerabilities related to security concerns, with attackers usually employing complex hacking techniques to expose their structures. Data poisoning-enabled perturbation attacks are complex adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammed Hassanin , Ibrahim Radwan , Nour Moustafa , Murat Tahtali , Neeraj Kumar

Availability attacks, which poison the training data with imperceptible perturbations, can make the data \emph{not exploitable} by machine learning algorithms so as to prevent unauthorized use of data. In this work, we investigate why these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Da Yu , Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Jian Yin , Tie-Yan Liu

Federated learning is particularly susceptible to model poisoning and backdoor attacks because individual users have direct control over the training data and model updates. At the same time, the attack power of an individual user is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuxin Wen , Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

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

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

Data-poisoning backdoor attacks are serious security threats to machine learning models, where an adversary can manipulate the training dataset to inject backdoors into models. In this paper, we focus on in-training backdoor defense, aiming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shaokui Wei , Hongyuan Zha , Baoyuan Wu

The growing dependence on machine learning in real-world applications emphasizes the importance of understanding and ensuring its safety. Backdoor attacks pose a significant security risk due to their stealthy nature and potentially serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ganghua Wang , Xun Xian , Jayanth Srinivasa , Ashish Kundu , Xuan Bi , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

Federated learning (FL) provides autonomy and privacy by design to participating peers, who cooperatively build a machine learning (ML) model while keeping their private data in their devices. However, that same autonomy opens the door for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

With the success of deep learning algorithms in various domains, studying adversarial attacks to secure deep models in real world applications has become an important research topic. Backdoor attacks are a form of adversarial attacks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Aniruddha Saha , Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

We revisit the efficacy of several practical methods for approximate machine unlearning developed for large-scale deep learning. In addition to complying with data deletion requests, one often-cited potential application for unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Martin Pawelczyk , Jimmy Z. Di , Yiwei Lu , Gautam Kamath , Ayush Sekhari , Seth Neel

Backdoor attack has emerged as a major security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). While existing defense methods have demonstrated promising results on detecting or erasing backdoors, it is still not clear whether robust training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yige Li , Xixiang Lyu , Nodens Koren , Lingjuan Lyu , Bo Li , Xingjun Ma

Growing applications of large language models (LLMs) trained by a third party raise serious concerns on the security vulnerability of LLMs.It has been demonstrated that malicious actors can covertly exploit these vulnerabilities in LLMs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shuli Jiang , Swanand Ravindra Kadhe , Yi Zhou , Ling Cai , Nathalie Baracaldo

Poisoning attacks have emerged as a significant security threat to machine learning algorithms. It has been demonstrated that adversaries who make small changes to the training set, such as adding specially crafted data points, can hurt the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Samuel Deng , Sanjam Garg , Somesh Jha , Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody , Abhradeep Thakurta

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) was shown to be vulnerable to patch-based data poisoning backdoor attacks. It was shown that an adversary can poison a small part of the unlabeled data so that when a victim trains an SSL model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ajinkya Tejankar , Maziar Sanjabi , Qifan Wang , Sinong Wang , Hamed Firooz , Hamed Pirsiavash , Liang Tan

There has been recent interest in leveraging federated learning (FL) for radio signal classification tasks. In FL, model parameters are periodically communicated from participating devices, training on their own local datasets, to a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Su Wang , Rajeev Sahay , Christopher G. Brinton

As one kind of distributed machine learning technique, federated learning enables multiple clients to build a model across decentralized data collaboratively without explicitly aggregating the data. Due to its ability to break data silos,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Junchuan Lianga , Rong Wang , Chaosheng Feng , Chin-Chen Chang

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