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The widespread use of publicly available datasets for training machine learning models raises significant concerns about data misuse. Availability attacks have emerged as a means for data owners to safeguard their data by designing…

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In this work, we study policy poisoning through state manipulation, also known as sensor spoofing, and focus specifically on the case of an agent forming a control policy through batch learning in a linear-quadratic (LQ) system. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Courtney M. King , Son Tung Do , Juntao Chen

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

Nearest neighbor-based methods are commonly used for classification tasks and as subroutines of other data-analysis methods. An attacker with the capability of inserting their own data points into the training set can manipulate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ara Vartanian , Will Rosenbaum , Scott Alfeld

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a problem of interpreting sensor data to human movement using an efficient machine learning (ML) approach. The HAR systems rely on data from untrusted users, making them susceptible to data poisoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Abdur R. Shahid , Ahmed Imteaj , Peter Y. Wu , Diane A. Igoche , Tauhidul Alam

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 widely known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a method that poisons a portion of the training data to make the target model perform well on normal data sets, while outputting attacker-specified or random categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yong Li , Han Gao

Semi-supervised learning methods can train high-accuracy machine learning models with a fraction of the labeled training samples required for traditional supervised learning. Such methods do not typically involve close review of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Marissa Connor , Vincent Emanuele

State-of-the-art machine learning models are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks whose purpose is to undermine the integrity of the model. However, the current literature on data poisoning attacks is mainly focused on ad hoc techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Pooya Tavallali , Vahid Behzadan , Peyman Tavallali , Mukesh Singhal

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

Adversarial attacks alter NLP model predictions by perturbing test-time inputs. However, it is much less understood whether, and how, predictions can be manipulated with small, concealed changes to the training data. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Eric Wallace , Tony Z. Zhao , Shi Feng , Sameer Singh

Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker injects fake…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Minghong Fang , Guolei Yang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jia Liu

Our research addresses the overlooked security concerns related to data poisoning in continual learning (CL). Data poisoning - the intentional manipulation of training data to affect the predictions of machine learning models - was recently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Stanisław Pawlak , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Tomasz Trzciński , Joost van de Weijer

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that enables multiple decentralized devices or edge servers to collaboratively train a shared model without exchanging raw data. During the training and sharing of model updates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ehsan Nowroozi , Imran Haider , Rahim Taheri , Mauro Conti

Federated edge learning can be essential in supporting privacy-preserving, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled activities in digital twin 6G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) environments. However, we need to also consider the potential of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Burak Kantarci , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Merouane Debbah , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Continual learning has gained substantial attention within the deep learning community, offering promising solutions to the challenging problem of sequential learning. Yet, a largely unexplored facet of this paradigm is its susceptibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Ali Abbasi , Parsa Nooralinejad , Hamed Pirsiavash , Soheil Kolouri

Deep neural network (DNN) classifiers are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. An adversary poisons some of the training data in such attacks by installing a trigger. The goal is to make the trained DNN output the attacker's desired class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

In multiple domains such as malware detection, automated driving systems, or fraud detection, classification algorithms are susceptible to being attacked by malicious agents willing to perturb the value of instance covariates to pursue…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-10 Victor Gallego , Roi Naveiro , Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua , Fabrizio Ruggeri

Solving a bilevel optimization problem is at the core of several machine learning problems such as hyperparameter tuning, data denoising, meta- and few-shot learning, and training-data poisoning. Different from simultaneous or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Akshay Mehra , Jihun Hamm