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At present, backdoor attacks attract attention as they do great harm to deep learning models. The adversary poisons the training data making the model being injected with a backdoor after being trained unconsciously by victims using the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shengfang Zhai , Qingni Shen , Xiaoyi Chen , Weilong Wang , Cong Li , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for distributed training of large-scale deep neural networks in which participants' data remains on their own devices with only model updates being shared with a central server. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Vale Tolpegin , Stacey Truex , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Ling Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) on large image-caption datasets has achieved remarkable success in zero-shot classification and enabled transferability to new domains. However, CLIP is extremely more vulnerable to targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Wenhan Yang , Jingdong Gao , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

The graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework has gained remarkable achievements in graph representation learning. However, similar to graph neural networks (GNNs), GCL models are susceptible to graph structural attacks. As an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yulin Zhu , Xing Ai , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Kai Zhou

Large-scale unlabeled data has spurred recent progress in self-supervised learning methods that learn rich visual representations. State-of-the-art self-supervised methods for learning representations from images (e.g., MoCo, BYOL, MSF) use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Aniruddha Saha , Ajinkya Tejankar , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Hamed Pirsiavash

The field of generating recommendations within the framework of causal inference has seen a recent surge, with recommendations being likened to treatments. This approach enhances insights into the influence of recommendations on user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Guanglin Zhou , Chengkai Huang , Xiaocong Chen , Xiwei Xu , Chen Wang , Liming Zhu , Lina Yao

We introduce camouflaged data poisoning attacks, a new attack vector that arises in the context of machine unlearning and other settings when model retraining may be induced. An adversary first adds a few carefully crafted points to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jimmy Z. Di , Jack Douglas , Jayadev Acharya , Gautam Kamath , Ayush Sekhari

Continual Learning (CL, sometimes also termed incremental learning) is a flavor of machine learning where the usual assumption of stationary data distribution is relaxed or omitted. When naively applying, e.g., DNNs in CL problems, changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Benedikt Bagus , Alexander Gepperth , Timothée Lesort

A backdoor data poisoning attack is an adversarial attack wherein the attacker injects several watermarked, mislabeled training examples into a training set. The watermark does not impact the test-time performance of the model on typical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Naren Sarayu Manoj , Avrim Blum

Deep learning-based recommender systems have achieved remarkable success in recent years. However, these methods usually heavily rely on labeled data (i.e., user-item interactions), suffering from problems such as data sparsity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mengyuan Jing , Yanmin Zhu , Tianzi Zang , Ke Wang

Data poisoning is a threat model in which a malicious actor tampers with training data to manipulate outcomes at inference time. A variety of defenses against this threat model have been proposed, but each suffers from at least one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Gowthami Somepalli , Micah Goldblum , Michael Moeller , Tom Goldstein

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

The recent success of machine learning (ML) has been fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large amounts of data in many different applications. However, the trustworthiness of the resulting models can be compromised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Kathrin Grosse , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli , Marcello Pelillo

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

Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (CL) has been recently shown to be very effective in preventing deep networks from overfitting noisy labels. Despite its empirical success, the theoretical understanding of the effect of contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yihao Xue , Kyle Whitecross , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Data-driven predictive control (DPC) is a feedback control method for systems with unknown dynamics. It repeatedly optimizes a system's future trajectories based on past input-output data. We develop a numerical method that computes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Yue Yu , Ruihan Zhao , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

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

Recently, advances in deep learning have been observed in various fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and cybersecurity. Machine learning (ML) has demonstrated its ability as a potential tool for anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 D'Jeff Kanda Nkashama , Arian Soltani , Jean-Charles Verdier , Marc Frappier , Pierre-Martin Tardif , Froduald Kabanza

The advent of multimodal deep learning models, such as CLIP, has unlocked new frontiers in a wide range of applications, from image-text understanding to classification tasks. However, these models are not safe for adversarial attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Md. Iqbal Hossain , Afia Sajeeda , Neeresh Kumar Perla , Ming Shao