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Online recommendation systems make use of a variety of information sources to provide users the items that users are potentially interested in. However, due to the openness of the online platform, recommendation systems are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hengtong Zhang , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Jing Gao

Knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone in modern machine learning systems, celebrated for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large, complex teacher model to a more efficient student model. Traditionally, this process is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Wu , Qian Ma , Prasenjit Mitra , Sencun Zhu

Federated learning is a popular strategy for training models on distributed, sensitive data, while preserving data privacy. Prior work identified a range of security threats on federated learning protocols that poison the data or the model.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Giorgio Severi , Matthew Jagielski , Gökberk Yar , Yuxuan Wang , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

The raise of machine learning and deep learning led to significant improvement in several domains. This change is supported by both the dramatic rise in computation power and the collection of large datasets. Such massive datasets often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hamid Jalalzai , Elie Kadoche , Rémi Leluc , Vincent Plassier

Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversaries control a percentage of the training…

This paper introduces and explores the idea of data poisoning, a light-weight peer-architecture technique to inject faults into Python programs. This method requires very small modification to the original program, which facilitates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Mohammad Amin Alipour , Alex Groce

We study data poisoning attacks in learning from human preferences. More specifically, we consider the problem of teaching/enforcing a target policy $\pi^\dagger$ by synthesizing preference data. We seek to understand the susceptibility of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Andi Nika , Jonathan Nöther , Debmalya Mandal , Parameswaran Kamalaruban , Adish Singla , Goran Radanović

The recent advancements in machine learning have led to a wave of interest in adopting online learning-based approaches for long-standing attack mitigation issues. In particular, DDoS attacks remain a significant threat to network service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Wesley Joon-Wie Tann , Ee-Chien Chang

In this paper we consider the setting where machine learning models are retrained on updated datasets in order to incorporate the most up-to-date information or reflect distribution shifts. We investigate whether one can infer information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Tian Hui , Farhad Farokhi , Olga Ohrimenko

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has marked significant achievements in language processing and reasoning capabilities. Despite their advancements, LLMs face vulnerabilities to data poisoning attacks, where the adversary inserts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Xiangyu Zhou , Yao Qiang , Saleh Zare Zade , Mohammad Amin Roshani , Prashant Khanduri , Douglas Zytko , Dongxiao Zhu

Backdoor attacks have become an emerging threat to NLP systems. By providing poisoned training data, the adversary can embed a "backdoor" into the victim model, which allows input instances satisfying certain textual patterns (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jun Yan , Vansh Gupta , Xiang Ren

Clean-label poisoning attacks inject innocuous looking (and "correctly" labeled) poison images into training data, causing a model to misclassify a targeted image after being trained on this data. We consider transferable poisoning attacks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-17 Chen Zhu , W. Ronny Huang , Ali Shafahi , Hengduo Li , Gavin Taylor , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time. In this work, we show that these training-time vulnerabilities extend to deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Panagiota Kiourti , Kacper Wardega , Susmit Jha , Wenchao Li

This paper proposes a novel, data-agnostic, model poisoning attack on Federated Learning (FL), by designing a new adversarial graph autoencoder (GAE)-based framework. The attack requires no knowledge of FL training data and achieves both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kai Li , Jingjing Zheng , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Ozgur B. Akan , H. Vincent Poor

As machine learning (ML) classifiers increasingly oversee the automated monitoring of network traffic, studying their resilience against adversarial attacks becomes critical. This paper focuses on poisoning attacks, specifically backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Giorgio Severi , Simona Boboila , Alina Oprea , John Holodnak , Kendra Kratkiewicz , Jason Matterer

Existing model poisoning attacks to federated learning assume that an attacker has access to a large fraction of compromised genuine clients. However, such assumption is not realistic in production federated learning systems that involve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning allows multiple users to collaboratively train a shared classification model while preserving data privacy. This approach, where model updates are aggregated by a central server, was shown to be vulnerable to poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Chien-Lun Chen , Leana Golubchik , Marco Paolieri

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…

While state-of-the-art diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation, concerns regarding their security persist. Earlier research highlighted DMs' vulnerability to data poisoning attacks, but these studies placed stricter requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhuoshi Pan , Yuguang Yao , Gaowen Liu , Bingquan Shen , H. Vicky Zhao , Ramana Rao Kompella , Sijia Liu

We investigate security concerns of the emergent instruction tuning paradigm, that models are trained on crowdsourced datasets with task instructions to achieve superior performance. Our studies demonstrate that an attacker can inject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jiashu Xu , Mingyu Derek Ma , Fei Wang , Chaowei Xiao , Muhao Chen