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Healthcare AI systems face major vulnerabilities to data poisoning that current defenses and regulations cannot adequately address. We analyzed eight attack scenarios in four categories: architectural attacks on convolutional neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Farhad Abtahi , Fernando Seoane , Iván Pau , Mario Vega-Barbas

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

Deep neural networks are proven to be vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. Recently, a specific type of data poisoning attack known as availability attacks has led to the failure of data utilization for model learning by adding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yi Yu , Qichen Zheng , Siyuan Yang , Wenhan Yang , Jun Liu , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Kwok-Yan Lam , Alex Kot

Deep neural networks usually require large labeled datasets for training to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many tasks, such as image classification and natural language processing. Although a lot of data is created each day by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jing Lin , Ryan Luley , Kaiqi Xiong

While recent works have indicated that federated learning (FL) may be vulnerable to poisoning attacks by compromised clients, their real impact on production FL systems is not fully understood. In this work, we aim to develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage

As the number of parameters in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) scales, the thirst for training data also increases. To save costs, it has become common for users and enterprises to delegate time-consuming data collection to third parties.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ziqiang Li , Pengfei Xia , Hong Sun , Yueqi Zeng , Wei Zhang , Bin Li

Machine learning is becoming ubiquitous. From finance to medicine, machine learning models are boosting decision-making processes and even outperforming humans in some tasks. This huge progress in terms of prediction quality does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Marco Anisetti , Claudio A. Ardagna , Alessandro Balestrucci , Nicola Bena , Ernesto Damiani , Chan Yeob Yeun

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 training (AT) is a robust learning algorithm that can defend against adversarial attacks in the inference phase and mitigate the side effects of corrupted data in the training phase. As such, it has become an indispensable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Song , Bo Han , Lei Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

This paper advances the understanding of how the size of a machine learning model affects its vulnerability to poisoning, despite state-of-the-art defenses. Given isotropic random honest feature vectors and the geometric median (or clipped…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Lê-Nguyên Hoang

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

Federated learning is highly susceptible to model poisoning attacks, especially those meticulously crafted for servers. Traditional defense methods mainly focus on updating assessments or robust aggregation against manually crafted myopic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yujing Wang , Hainan Zhang , Sijia Wen , Wangjie Qiu , Binghui Guo

Model poisoning attacks on federated learning (FL) intrude in the entire system via compromising an edge model, resulting in malfunctioning of machine learning models. Such compromised models are tampered with to perform adversary-desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Jun Sakuma

Backdoor defenses have been studied to alleviate the threat of deep neural networks (DNNs) being backdoor attacked and thus maliciously altered. Since DNNs usually adopt some external training data from an untrusted third party, a robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Kuofeng Gao , Yang Bai , Jindong Gu , Yong Yang , Shu-Tao Xia

While numerous defense methods have been proposed to prohibit potential poisoning attacks from untrusted data sources, most research works only defend against specific attacks, which leaves many avenues for an adversary to exploit. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Minh-Hao Van , Alycia N. Carey , Xintao Wu

In this work, we demonstrate universal multi-party poisoning attacks that adapt and apply to any multi-party learning process with arbitrary interaction pattern between the parties. More generally, we introduce and study $(k,p)$-poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody , Ameer Mohammed

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm designed to address privacy concerns. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where Byzantine clients compromise the integrity of the global model by submitting malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ryan McGaughey , Jesus Martinez del Rincon , Ihsen Alouani

The rise of foundation models fine-tuned on human feedback from potentially untrusted users has increased the risk of adversarial data poisoning, necessitating the study of robustness of learning algorithms against such attacks. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Avinandan Bose , Laurent Lessard , Maryam Fazel , Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham

Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become increasingly prevalent in many real world applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cong Liao , Haoti Zhong , Anna Squicciarini , Sencun Zhu , David Miller

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
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