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We present a data poisoning attack -- Phantom Transfer -- with the property that, even if you know precisely how the poison was placed into an otherwise benign dataset, you cannot filter it out. We achieve this by modifying subliminal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andrew Draganov , Tolga H. Dur , Anandmayi Bhongade , Mary Phuong

Model poisoning attacks are critical security threats to Federated Learning (FL). Existing model poisoning attacks suffer from two key limitations: 1) they achieve suboptimal effectiveness when defenses are deployed, and/or 2) they require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yueqi Xie , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

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

The recent popularity of machine learning calls for a deeper understanding of AI security. Amongst the numerous AI threats published so far, poisoning attacks currently attract considerable attention. In a poisoning attack the opponent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Yao Cheng , Cheng-Kang Chu , Hsiao-Ying Lin , Marius Lombard-Platet , David Naccache

Both fair machine learning and adversarial learning have been extensively studied. However, attacking fair machine learning models has received less attention. In this paper, we present a framework that seeks to effectively generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Minh-Hao Van , Wei Du , Xintao Wu , Aidong Lu

Learning reward models from pairwise comparisons is a fundamental component in a number of domains, including autonomous control, conversational agents, and recommendation systems, as part of a broad goal of aligning automated decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junlin Wu , Jiongxiao Wang , Chaowei Xiao , Chenguang Wang , Ning Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Security issues are crucial in a number of machine learning applications, especially in scenarios dealing with human activity rather than natural phenomena (e.g., information ranking, spam detection, malware detection, etc.). It is to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-03-02 Marius Kloft , Pavel Laskov

We study a security threat to reinforcement learning where an attacker poisons the learning environment to force the agent into executing a target policy chosen by the attacker. As a victim, we consider RL agents whose objective is to find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Amin Rakhsha , Goran Radanovic , Rati Devidze , Xiaojin Zhu , Adish Singla

Large language models are pre-trained on uncurated text datasets consisting of trillions of tokens scraped from the Web. Prior work has shown that: (1) web-scraped pre-training datasets can be practically poisoned by malicious actors; and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yiming Zhang , Javier Rando , Ivan Evtimov , Jianfeng Chi , Eric Michael Smith , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr , Daphne Ippolito

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

A powerful category of (invisible) data poisoning attacks modify a subset of training examples by small adversarial perturbations to change the prediction of certain test-time data. Existing defense mechanisms are not desirable to deploy in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tian Yu Liu , Yu Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Recent studies on backdoor attacks in model training have shown that polluting a small portion of training data is sufficient to produce incorrect manipulated predictions on poisoned test-time data while maintaining high clean accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Soumyadeep Pal , Ren Wang , Yuguang Yao , Sijia Liu

Data poisoning for reinforcement learning has historically focused on general performance degradation, and targeted attacks have been successful via perturbations that involve control of the victim's policy and rewards. We introduce an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Harrison Foley , Liam Fowl , Tom Goldstein , Gavin Taylor

Data Poisoning (DP) is an effective attack that causes trained classifiers to misclassify their inputs. DP attacks significantly degrade a classifier's accuracy by covertly injecting attack samples into the training set. Broadly applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Xi Li , David J. Miller , Zhen Xiang , George Kesidis

In recent years, a variety of effective neural network-based methods for anomaly and cyber attack detection in industrial control systems (ICSs) have been demonstrated in the literature. Given their successful implementation and widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Moshe Kravchik , Asaf Shabtai

With the growing adoption of AI and machine learning systems in real-world applications, ensuring their fairness has become increasingly critical. The majority of the work in algorithmic fairness focus on assessing and improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Eunice Chan , Hanghang Tong

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is essential for the development of medical large language models (LLMs), yet prior poisoning studies have mainly focused on the detectable backdoor attacks. We propose a novel poisoning attack targeting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jingyuan Xie , Wenjie Wang , Ji Wu , Jiandong Gao

This paper proposes and investigates a new approach for detecting and preventing several different types of poisoning attacks from affecting a centralized Federated Learning model via average accuracy deviation detection (AADD). By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Viktor Valadi , Madeleine Englund , Mark Spanier , Austin O'brien

Learned indexes are a class of index data structures that enable fast search by approximating the cumulative distribution function (CDF) using machine learning models (Kraska et al., SIGMOD'18). However, recent studies have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Atsuki Sato , Martin Aumüller , Yusuke Matsui

Poisoning attacks pose significant challenges to the robustness of diffusion models (DMs). In this paper, we systematically analyze when and where poisoning attacks textual inversion (TI), a widely used personalization technique for DMs. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jeremy Styborski , Mingzhi Lyu , Jiayou Lu , Nupur Kapur , Adams Kong