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The adversarial machine learning literature is largely partitioned into evasion attacks on testing data and poisoning attacks on training data. In this work, we show that adversarial examples, originally intended for attacking pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Liam Fowl , Micah Goldblum , Ping-yeh Chiang , Jonas Geiping , Wojtek Czaja , Tom Goldstein

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

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

Preference learning is a central component for aligning current LLMs, but this process can be vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. To address this concern, we introduce PoisonBench, a benchmark for evaluating large language models'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tingchen Fu , Mrinank Sharma , Philip Torr , Shay B. Cohen , David Krueger , Fazl Barez

As the complexities of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems increase, preserving their resilience becomes more challenging. For instance, maintaining power grid resilience is becoming increasingly complicated due to the growing number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Nora Agah , Javad Mohammadi , Alex Aved , David Ferris , Erika Ardiles Cruz , Philip Morrone

Web-scraped datasets are vulnerable to data poisoning, which can be used for backdooring deep image classifiers during training. Since training on large datasets is expensive, a model is trained once and re-used many times. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Benjamin Schneider , Nils Lukas , Florian Kerschbaum

Recommender system is an essential component of web services to engage users. Popular recommender systems model user preferences and item properties using a large amount of crowdsourced user-item interaction data, e.g., rating scores; then…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jia Liu

This study investigates behavior-targeted attacks on reinforcement learning and their countermeasures. Behavior-targeted attacks aim to manipulate the victim's behavior as desired by the adversary through adversarial interventions in state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shojiro Yamabe , Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma

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

Most recent studies have shown several vulnerabilities to attacks with the potential to jeopardize the integrity of the model, opening in a few recent years a new window of opportunity in terms of cyber-security. The main interest of this…

Data poisoning considers an adversary that distorts the training set of machine learning algorithms for malicious purposes. In this work, we bring to light one conjecture regarding the fundamentals of data poisoning, which we call the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Wenxiao Wang , Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

Poisoning attacks, in which an attacker adversarially manipulates the training dataset of a machine learning (ML) model, pose a significant threat to ML security. Beta Poisoning is a recently proposed poisoning attack that disrupts model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nilufer Gulciftci , M. Emre Gursoy

Machine learning is data hungry; the more data a model has access to in training, the more likely it is to perform well at inference time. Distinct parties may want to combine their local data to gain the benefits of a model trained on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Jamie Hayes , Olga Ohrimenko

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

Collecting training data from untrusted sources exposes machine learning services to poisoning adversaries, who maliciously manipulate training data to degrade the model accuracy. When trained on offline datasets, poisoning adversaries have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tianyu Pang , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

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

Data poisoning attacks are a potential threat to machine learning (ML) models, aiming to manipulate training datasets to disrupt their performance. Existing defenses are mostly designed to mitigate specific poisoning attacks or are aligned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anum Paracha , Junaid Arshad , Mohamed Ben Farah , Khalid Ismail

Federated learning combines local updates from clients to produce a global model, which is susceptible to poisoning attacks. Most previous defense strategies relied on vectors derived from projections of local updates on a Euclidean space;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Sungwon Han , Hyeonho Song , Sungwon Park , Meeyoung Cha

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

Backdoor data poisoning is an emerging form of adversarial attack usually against deep neural network image classifiers. The attacker poisons the training set with a relatively small set of images from one (or several) source class(es),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis