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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are energy-efficient neural networks because of their spiking nature. However, as the spike firing rate of SNNs increases, the energy consumption does as well, and thus, the advantage of SNNs diminishes. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Kazuma Suetake , Takuya Ushimaru , Ryuji Saiin , Yoshihide Sawada

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are quickly gaining traction as a viable alternative to Deep Neural Networks (DNN). In comparison to DNNs, SNNs are more computationally powerful and provide superior energy efficiency. SNNs, while exciting at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Karthikeyan Nagarajan , Junde Li , Sina Sayyah Ensan , Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Sachhidh Kannan , Swaroop Ghosh

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

Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 William Xu , Chenyu Zhang , Yihan Wang , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Zuoqiu Liu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu , Yiwei Lu

Property inference attacks consider an adversary who has access to the trained model and tries to extract some global statistics of the training data. In this work, we study property inference in scenarios where the adversary can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Melissa Chase , Esha Ghosh , Saeed Mahloujifar

Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to introduce unexpected behaviors into machine learning models at training time. For text-to-image generative models with massive training datasets, current understanding of poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shawn Shan , Wenxin Ding , Josephine Passananti , Stanley Wu , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Making learners robust to adversarial perturbation at test time (i.e., evasion attacks) or training time (i.e., poisoning attacks) has emerged as a challenging task. It is known that for some natural settings, sublinear perturbations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody

We study backdoor poisoning attacks against image classification networks, whereby an attacker inserts a trigger into a subset of the training data, in such a way that at test time, this trigger causes the classifier to predict some target…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Muhammad Usman , Youcheng Sun , Divya Gopinath , Corina S. Pasareanu

Recent studies have shown that deep learning models are very vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Many defense methods have been proposed to address this issue. However, traditional poisoning attacks are not as threatening as commonly believed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuhao He , Jinyu Tian , Xianwei Zheng , Li Dong , Yuanman Li , Jiantao Zhou

Machine learning has become an important component for many systems and applications including computer vision, spam filtering, malware and network intrusion detection, among others. Despite the capabilities of machine learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Andrea Paudice , Luis Muñoz-González , Andras Gyorgy , Emil C. Lupu

Deep neural networks are susceptible to poisoning attacks by purposely polluted training data with specific triggers. As existing episodes mainly focused on attack success rate with patch-based samples, defense algorithms can easily detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jinyin Chen , Longyuan Zhang , Haibin Zheng , Xueke Wang , Zhaoyan Ming

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

A number of online services nowadays rely upon machine learning to extract valuable information from data collected in the wild. This exposes learning algorithms to the threat of data poisoning, i.e., a coordinate attack in which a fraction…

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

We consider availability data poisoning attacks, where an adversary aims to degrade the overall test accuracy of a machine learning model by crafting small perturbations to its training data. Existing poisoning strategies can achieve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yiyong Liu , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Recent research has highlighted the vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) against data poisoning attacks. These attacks aim to inject poisoning samples into the models' training dataset such that the trained models have inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pengfei He , Han Xu , Jie Ren , Yingqian Cui , Hui Liu , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

Machine learning models have achieved great success in supervised learning tasks for end-to-end training, which requires a large amount of labeled data that is not always feasible. Recently, many practitioners have shifted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yiwei Lu , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu

It is well-known that deep learning models are vulnerable to small input perturbations. Such perturbed instances are called adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are commonly crafted to fool a model either at training time (poisoning)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ege Erdogan , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

Data Poisoning attacks modify training data to maliciously control a model trained on such data. In this work, we focus on targeted poisoning attacks which cause a reclassification of an unmodified test image and as such breach model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , W. Ronny Huang , Wojciech Czaja , Gavin Taylor , Michael Moeller , Tom Goldstein

We show that by controlling parts of a physical environment in which a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) is being fine-tuned online, an adversary can launch subtle data poisoning attacks that degrade the performance of the system. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Naman Patel , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Siddharth Garg , Farshad Khorrami