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Adversarial attacks by malicious actors on machine learning systems, such as introducing poison triggers into training datasets, pose significant risks. The challenge in resolving such an attack arises in practice when only a subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Stefan Schoepf , Jack Foster , Alexandra Brintrup

The performance of a machine learning-based malware classifier depends on the large and updated training set used to induce its model. In order to maintain an up-to-date training set, there is a need to continuously collect benign and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Tzvika Shapira , David Berend , Ishai Rosenberg , Yang Liu , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown unprecedented success in object detection tasks. However, it was also discovered that DNNs are vulnerable to multiple kinds of attacks, including Backdoor Attacks. Through the attack, the attacker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yize Cheng , Wenbin Hu , Minhao Cheng

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

In this paper, we present a black-box attack against API call based machine learning malware classifiers, focusing on generating adversarial sequences combining API calls and static features (e.g., printable strings) that will be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Ishai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Lior Rokach , Yuval Elovici

The success of machine learning is fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large training datasets. The training data is used to learn new models or update existing ones, assuming that it is sufficiently representative…

This paper investigates poisoning attacks against data-driven control methods. This work is motivated by recent trends showing that, in supervised learning, slightly modifying the data in a malicious manner can drastically deteriorate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

Backdoor attacks are emerging threats to deep neural networks, which typically embed malicious behaviors into a victim model by injecting poisoned samples. Adversaries can activate the injected backdoor during inference by presenting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Bingyin Zhao , Yingjie Lao

We present Timber, the first white-box poisoning attack targeting decision trees. Timber is based on a greedy attack strategy that leverages sub-tree retraining to efficiently estimate the damage caused by poisoning a given training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Stefano Calzavara , Lorenzo Cazzaro , Massimo Vettori

Black-box adversarial attacks present a realistic threat to action recognition systems. Existing black-box attacks follow either a query-based approach where an attack is optimized by querying the target model, or a transfer-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Neural machine translation systems are known to be vulnerable to adversarial test inputs, however, as we show in this paper, these systems are also vulnerable to training attacks. Specifically, we propose a poisoning attack in which a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jun Wang , Chang Xu , Francisco Guzman , Ahmed El-Kishky , Yuqing Tang , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

This paper investigates the critical issue of data poisoning attacks on AI models, a growing concern in the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. As advanced technology systems become increasingly prevalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Halima I. Kure , Pradipta Sarkar , Ahmed B. Ndanusa , Augustine O. Nwajana

Data poisoning attacks aim to manipulate the model produced by a learning algorithm by adversarially modifying the training set. We consider differential privacy as a defensive measure against this type of attack. We show that such learners…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Yuzhe Ma , Xiaojin Zhu , Justin Hsu

A distribution inference attack aims to infer statistical properties of data used to train machine learning models. These attacks are sometimes surprisingly potent, but the factors that impact distribution inference risk are not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anshuman Suri , Yifu Lu , Yanjin Chen , David Evans

Adversarial attacks such as poisoning attacks have attracted the attention of many machine learning researchers. Traditionally, poisoning attacks attempt to inject adversarial training data in order to manipulate the trained model. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ali Raza , Shujun Li , Kim-Phuc Tran , Ludovic Koehl , Kim Duc Tran

Backdoor data poisoning attacks have recently been demonstrated in computer vision research as a potential safety risk for machine learning (ML) systems. Traditional data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to induce unreliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Loc Truong , Chace Jones , Brian Hutchinson , Andrew August , Brenda Praggastis , Robert Jasper , Nicole Nichols , Aaron Tuor

We propose a novel clustering mechanism based on an incompatibility property between subsets of data that emerges during model training. This mechanism partitions the dataset into subsets that generalize only to themselves, i.e., training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Charles Jin , Melinda Sun , Martin Rinard

Clustering algorithms are used in a large number of applications and play an important role in modern machine learning-- yet, adversarial attacks on clustering algorithms seem to be broadly overlooked unlike supervised learning. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Anshuman Chhabra , Abhishek Roy , Prasant Mohapatra

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the effects of data poisoning attacks on data-driven control methods. Poisoning attacks are well-known to the Machine Learning community, which, however, make use of assumptions, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Alessio Russo