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Machine learning systems deployed in distributed or federated environments are highly susceptible to adversarial manipulations, particularly availability attacks -adding imperceptible perturbations to training data, thereby rendering the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Abdessamad El-Kabid , El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are malicious inputs crafted to fool pre-trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box attacking transferability, which allows that adversarial examples crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 ZhaoXin Huan , Yulong Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Lin Shang , Chilin Fu , Jun Zhou

Adversarial attacks are malicious inputs that derail machine-learning models. We propose a scheme to attack autoencoders, as well as a quantitative evaluation framework that correlates well with the qualitative assessment of the attacks. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 George Gondim-Ribeiro , Pedro Tabacof , Eduardo Valle

The existence of adversarial attacks (or adversarial examples) brings huge concern about the machine learning (ML) model's safety issues. For many safety-critical ML tasks, such as financial forecasting, fraudulent detection, and anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Han Xu , Menghai Pan , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoting Li , Mahashweta Das , Hao Yang

Meta-learning enables a model to learn from very limited data to undertake a new task. In this paper, we study the general meta-learning with adversarial samples. We present a meta-learning algorithm, ADML (ADversarial Meta-Learner), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Chengxiang Yin , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang

Model distillation has become essential for creating smaller, deployable language models that retain larger system capabilities. However, widespread deployment raises concerns about resilience to adversarial manipulation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Harsh Chaudhari , Jamie Hayes , Matthew Jagielski , Ilia Shumailov , Milad Nasr , Alina Oprea

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

In recent years, research on adversarial attacks has become a hot spot. Although current literature on the transfer-based adversarial attack has achieved promising results for improving the transferability to unseen black-box models, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Yunpei Jia , Chuanqi Tan , Tao Xue , Shiguang Shan

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries alter model behavior on target classification labels by embedding triggers into data samples. While these attacks have received considerable attention in…

Despite the great success of deep neural networks, the adversarial attack can cheat some well-trained classifiers by small permutations. In this paper, we propose another type of adversarial attack that can cheat classifiers by significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Sanli Tang , Xiaolin Huang , Mingjian Chen , Chengjin Sun , Jie Yang

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

The vulnerability of artificial neural networks to adversarial perturbations in the black-box setting is widely studied in the literature. The majority of attack methods to construct these perturbations suffer from an impractically large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kirill Lukyanov , Andrew Perminov , Denis Turdakov , Mikhail Pautov

Contrastive learning has become a leading self- supervised approach to representation learning across domains, including vision, multimodal settings, graphs, and federated learning. However, recent studies have shown that contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Simi D Kuniyilh , Rita Machacy

Federated learning (FL) provides autonomy and privacy by design to participating peers, who cooperatively build a machine learning (ML) model while keeping their private data in their devices. However, that same autonomy opens the door for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Iterative adversarial training has shown promising results against strong white-box attacks. However, adversarial training is very expensive, and every time a model needs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hebi Li , Qi Xiao , Shixin Tian , Jin Tian

The delicate equilibrium between user privacy and the ability to unleash the potential of distributed data is an important concern. Federated learning, which enables the training of collaborative models without sharing of data, has emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Taejin Kim , Jiarui Li , Shubhranshu Singh , Nikhil Madaan , Carlee Joe-Wong

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

Federated learning is a technique that allows multiple entities to collaboratively train models using their data without compromising data privacy. However, despite its advantages, federated learning can be susceptible to false data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Or Shalom , Amir Leshem , Waheed U. Bajwa

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

Machine learning is susceptible to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker controls a small fraction of the training data and chooses that data with the goal of inducing some behavior unintended by the model developer in the trained model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Evan Rose , Fnu Suya , David Evans