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Data-driven techniques are used in cyber-physical systems (CPS) for controlling autonomous vehicles, handling demand responses for energy management, and modeling human physiology for medical devices. These data-driven techniques extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Sangdon Park , James Weimer , Insup Lee

This paper establishes a mathematically precise definition of dataset poisoning attack and proves that the very act of effectively poisoning a dataset ensures that the attack can be effectively detected. On top of a mathematical guarantee…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jonathan Gallagher , Yasaman Esfandiari , Callen MacPhee , Michael Warren

As the complexities of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems increase, preserving their resilience becomes more challenging. For instance, maintaining power grid resilience is becoming increasingly complicated due to the growing number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Nora Agah , Javad Mohammadi , Alex Aved , David Ferris , Erika Ardiles Cruz , Philip Morrone

Robustness to malicious attacks is of paramount importance for distributed learning. Existing works usually consider the classical Byzantine attacks model, which assumes that some workers can send arbitrarily malicious messages to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jie Peng , Weiyu Li , Stefan Vlaski , Qing Ling

Most recent studies have shown several vulnerabilities to attacks with the potential to jeopardize the integrity of the model, opening in a few recent years a new window of opportunity in terms of cyber-security. The main interest of this…

Data poisoning attacks and backdoor attacks aim to corrupt a machine learning classifier via modifying, adding, and/or removing some carefully selected training examples, such that the corrupted classifier makes incorrect predictions as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Jinyuan Jia , Yupei Liu , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

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

We study indiscriminate poisoning for linear learners where an adversary injects a few crafted examples into the training data with the goal of forcing the induced model to incur higher test error. Inspired by the observation that linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fnu Suya , Xiao Zhang , Yuan Tian , David Evans

Poisoning attacks can disproportionately influence model behaviour by making small changes to the training corpus. While defences against specific poisoning attacks do exist, they in general do not provide any guarantees, leaving them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shijie Liu , Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where a fraction of the training data is manipulated to degrade the algorithms' performance. We show that current approaches, which typically assume that regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Javier Carnerero-Cano , Luis Muñoz-González , Phillippa Spencer , Emil C. Lupu

While state-of-the-art diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation, concerns regarding their security persist. Earlier research highlighted DMs' vulnerability to data poisoning attacks, but these studies placed stricter requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhuoshi Pan , Yuguang Yao , Gaowen Liu , Bingquan Shen , H. Vicky Zhao , Ramana Rao Kompella , Sijia Liu

AI-based code generators have become pivotal in assisting developers in writing software starting from natural language (NL). However, they are trained on large amounts of data, often collected from unsanitized online sources (e.g., GitHub,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Domenico Cotroneo , Cristina Improta , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

Data poisoning attacks pose significant threats to machine learning models by introducing malicious data into the training process, thereby degrading model performance or manipulating predictions. Detecting and sifting out poisoned data is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haoqi He , Xiaokai Lin , Jiancai Chen , Yan Xiao

We revisit the efficacy of several practical methods for approximate machine unlearning developed for large-scale deep learning. In addition to complying with data deletion requests, one often-cited potential application for unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Martin Pawelczyk , Jimmy Z. Di , Yiwei Lu , Gautam Kamath , Ayush Sekhari , Seth Neel

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

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

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where a fraction of the training data is manipulated to deliberately degrade the algorithms' performance. Optimal attacks can be formulated as bilevel optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Javier Carnerero-Cano , Luis Muñoz-González , Phillippa Spencer , Emil C. Lupu

The prevalence of data scraping from social media as a means to obtain datasets has led to growing concerns regarding unauthorized use of data. Data poisoning attacks have been proposed as a bulwark against scraping, as they make data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Pedro Sandoval-Segura , Vasu Singla , Jonas Geiping , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein , David W. Jacobs

The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a translation between readable domain names and IP addresses. The DNS is a key infrastructure component of the Internet and a prime target for a variety of attacks. One of the most significant threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Harel Berger , Amit Z. Dvir , Moti Geva

To study the resilience of distributed learning, the "Byzantine" literature considers a strong threat model where workers can report arbitrary gradients to the parameter server. Whereas this model helped obtain several fundamental results,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Sadegh Farhadkhani , Rachid Guerraoui , Lê-Nguyên Hoang , Oscar Villemaud