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As in-the-wild data are increasingly involved in the training stage, machine learning applications become more susceptible to data poisoning attacks. Such attacks typically lead to test-time accuracy degradation or controlled misprediction.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Yun Shen , Cong Wang , Yang Zhang

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

Recent research shows deep neural networks are vulnerable to different types of attacks, such as adversarial attack, data poisoning attack and backdoor attack. Among them, backdoor attack is the most cunning one and can occur in almost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jie Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Qidong Huang , Jing Liao , Weiming Zhang , Huamin Feng , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

The recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized the generation of realistic and complex images. However, these models also introduce potential safety hazards, such as producing harmful content and infringing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yimeng Zhang , Jinghan Jia , Xin Chen , Aochuan Chen , Yihua Zhang , Jiancheng Liu , Ke Ding , Sijia Liu

We introduce ShortcutGen, a new data poisoning attack that generates sample-dependent, error-minimizing perturbations by learning a generator. The key novelty of ShortcutGen is the use of a randomly-initialized discriminator, which provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Dirren van Vlijmen , Alex Kolmus , Zhuoran Liu , Zhengyu Zhao , Martha Larson

As modern neural machine translation (NMT) systems have been widely deployed, their security vulnerabilities require close scrutiny. Most recently, NMT systems have been found vulnerable to targeted attacks which cause them to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Chang Xu , Jun Wang , Yuqing Tang , Francisco Guzman , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

Research of adversarial attacks is important for AI security because it shows the vulnerability of deep learning models and helps to build more robust models. Adversarial attacks on images are most widely studied, which include noise-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaopei Zhu , Peiyang Xu , Guanning Zeng , Yingpeng Dong , Xiaolin Hu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, such as backdoor attacks in which a malicious adversary compromises a model during training such that specific behaviour can be triggered at test time by attaching a specific word…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 You Guo , Jun Wang , Trevor Cohn

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for distributed training of large-scale deep neural networks in which participants' data remains on their own devices with only model updates being shared with a central server. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Vale Tolpegin , Stacey Truex , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Ling Liu

With the success of deep learning algorithms in various domains, studying adversarial attacks to secure deep models in real world applications has become an important research topic. Backdoor attacks are a form of adversarial attacks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Aniruddha Saha , Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

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

Machine learning models are brittle, and small changes in the training data can result in different predictions. We study the problem of proving that a prediction is robust to data poisoning, where an attacker can inject a number of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Samuel Drews , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

Large-scale image retrieval using deep hashing has become increasingly popular due to the exponential growth of image data and the remarkable feature extraction capabilities of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, deep hashing methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Shuai Li , Jie Zhang , Yuang Qi , Kejiang Chen , Tianwei Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Recently, NLP has seen a surge in the usage of large pre-trained models. Users download weights of models pre-trained on large datasets, then fine-tune the weights on a task of their choice. This raises the question of whether downloading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Keita Kurita , Paul Michel , Graham Neubig

With the broad application of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor attacks have gradually attracted attention. Backdoor attacks are insidious, and poisoned models perform well on benign samples and are only triggered when given specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Chang Yue , Peizhuo Lv , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen

Backdoor attacks pose a new threat to NLP models. A standard strategy to construct poisoned data in backdoor attacks is to insert triggers (e.g., rare words) into selected sentences and alter the original label to a target label. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Leilei Gan , Jiwei Li , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Shangwei Guo , Chun Fan

A security threat to deep neural networks (DNN) is backdoor contamination, in which an adversary poisons the training data of a target model to inject a Trojan so that images carrying a specific trigger will always be classified into a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Di Tang , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Kehuan Zhang

This demo paper examines the susceptibility of Federated Learning (FL) systems to targeted data poisoning attacks, presenting a novel system for visualizing and mitigating such threats. We simulate targeted data poisoning attacks via label…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xueqing Zhang , Junkai Zhang , Ka-Ho Chow , Juntao Chen , Ying Mao , Mohamed Rahouti , Xiang Li , Yuchen Liu , Wenqi Wei

This paper examines the robustness of deployed few-shot meta-learning systems when they are fed an imperceptibly perturbed few-shot dataset. We attack amortized meta-learners, which allows us to craft colluding sets of inputs that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Elre T. Oldewage , John Bronskill , Richard E. Turner

In recent years, data poisoning attacks have been increasingly designed to appear harmless and even beneficial, often with the intention of verifying dataset ownership or safeguarding private data from unauthorized use. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yifan Zhu , Lijia Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao