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Data poisoning is a training-time attack that undermines the trustworthiness of learned models. In a targeted data poisoning attack, an adversary manipulates the training dataset to alter the classification of a targeted test point. Given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nakshatra Gupta , Sumanth Prabhu , Supratik Chakraborty , R Venkatesh

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

Predictions of certifiably robust classifiers remain constant in a neighborhood of a point, making them resilient to test-time attacks with a guarantee. In this work, we present a previously unrecognized threat to robust machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Akshay Mehra , Bhavya Kailkhura , Pin-Yu Chen , Jihun Hamm

Nearest neighbor-based methods are commonly used for classification tasks and as subroutines of other data-analysis methods. An attacker with the capability of inserting their own data points into the training set can manipulate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ara Vartanian , Will Rosenbaum , Scott Alfeld

Data poisoning attacks compromise the integrity of machine-learning models by introducing malicious training samples to influence the results during test time. In this work, we investigate backdoor data poisoning attack on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mahesh Subedar , Nilesh Ahuja , Ranganath Krishnan , Ibrahima J. Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

Generalization of machine learning models can be severely compromised by data poisoning, where adversarial changes are applied to the training data. This vulnerability has led to interest in certifying (i.e., proving) that such changes up…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lukas Gosch , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Stephan Günnemann

Data poisoning considers cases when an adversary manipulates the behavior of machine learning algorithms through malicious training data. Existing threat models of data poisoning center around a single metric, the number of poisoned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Wenxiao Wang , Soheil Feizi

Modern machine learning pipelines leverage large amounts of public data, making it infeasible to guarantee data quality and leaving models open to poisoning and backdoor attacks. Provably bounding model behavior under such attacks remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Philip Sosnin , Mark N. Müller , Maximilian Baader , Calvin Tsay , Matthew Wicker

Targeted clean-label data poisoning is a type of adversarial attack on machine learning systems in which an adversary injects a few correctly-labeled, minimally-perturbed samples into the training data, causing a model to misclassify a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Neehar Peri , Neal Gupta , W. Ronny Huang , Liam Fowl , Chen Zhu , Soheil Feizi , Tom Goldstein , John P. Dickerson

ML models are typically trained using large datasets of high quality. However, training datasets often contain inconsistent or incomplete data. To tackle this issue, one solution is to develop algorithms that can check whether a prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Austen Z. Fan , Paraschos Koutris

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 neural networks (DNNs) enable innovative applications of machine learning like image recognition, machine translation, or malware detection. However, deep learning is often criticized for its lack of robustness in adversarial settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel

Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

Data poisoning is one of the most relevant security threats against machine learning and data-driven technologies. Since many applications rely on untrusted training data, an attacker can easily craft malicious samples and inject them into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nicolas M. Müller , Simon Roschmann , Konstantin Böttinger

Data poisoning and backdoor attacks manipulate training data in order to cause models to fail during inference. A recent survey of industry practitioners found that data poisoning is the number one concern among threats ranging from model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Avi Schwarzschild , Micah Goldblum , Arjun Gupta , John P Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

This work introduces a verification framework that provides both sound and complete guarantees for data poisoning attacks during neural network training. We formulate adversarial data manipulation, model training, and test-time evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Philip Sosnin , Jodie Knapp , Fraser Kennedy , Josh Collyer , Calvin Tsay

Deep image classification models trained on vast amounts of web-scraped data are susceptible to data poisoning - a mechanism for backdooring models. A small number of poisoned samples seen during training can severely undermine a model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Nils Lukas , Florian Kerschbaum

We study the robustness of data-centric methods to find neural network architectures, known as neural architecture search (NAS), against data poisoning. To audit this robustness, we design a poisoning framework that enables the systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zachary Coalson , Huazheng Wang , Qingyun Wu , Sanghyun Hong

Machine learning algorithms are known to be susceptible to data poisoning attacks, where an adversary manipulates the training data to degrade performance of the resulting classifier. In this work, we present a unifying view of randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Elan Rosenfeld , Ezra Winston , Pradeep Ravikumar , J. Zico Kolter

Neural network classifiers are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, as attackers can degrade or even manipulate their predictions thorough poisoning only a few training samples. However, the robustness of heuristic defenses is hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ruoxin Chen , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Bin Sheng , Ping Li
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