English
Related papers

Related papers: Understanding Variation in Subpopulation Susceptib…

200 papers

Property inference attacks allow an adversary to extract global properties of the training dataset from a machine learning model. Such attacks have privacy implications for data owners sharing their datasets to train machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Harsh Chaudhari , John Abascal , Alina Oprea , Matthew Jagielski , Florian Tramèr , Jonathan Ullman

We consider data poisoning attacks, a class of adversarial attacks on machine learning where an adversary has the power to alter a small fraction of the training data in order to make the trained classifier satisfy certain objectives. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yizhen Wang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Adversarial poisoning attacks pose huge threats to various machine learning applications. Especially, the recent accumulative poisoning attacks show that it is possible to achieve irreparable harm on models via a sequence of imperceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jianing Zhu , Xiawei Guo , Jiangchao Yao , Chao Du , Li He , Shuo Yuan , Tongliang Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Han

Deep learning models have recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning, an insidious attack where the victim model predicts clean images correctly but classifies the same images as the target class when a trigger poison pattern is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alvin Chan , Yew-Soon Ong

This paper investigates the critical issue of data poisoning attacks on AI models, a growing concern in the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. As advanced technology systems become increasingly prevalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Halima I. Kure , Pradipta Sarkar , Ahmed B. Ndanusa , Augustine O. Nwajana

Backdoor data poisoning attacks have recently been demonstrated in computer vision research as a potential safety risk for machine learning (ML) systems. Traditional data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to induce unreliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Loc Truong , Chace Jones , Brian Hutchinson , Andrew August , Brenda Praggastis , Robert Jasper , Nicole Nichols , Aaron Tuor

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

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

We study data poisoning attacks in the online setting where training items arrive sequentially, and the attacker may perturb the current item to manipulate online learning. Importantly, the attacker has no knowledge of future training items…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Xuezhou Zhang , Xiaojin Zhu , Laurent Lessard

Neural networks are widely known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a method that poisons a portion of the training data to make the target model perform well on normal data sets, while outputting attacker-specified or random categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yong Li , Han Gao

Recent studies have shown that deep learning models are very vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Many defense methods have been proposed to address this issue. However, traditional poisoning attacks are not as threatening as commonly believed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuhao He , Jinyu Tian , Xianwei Zheng , Li Dong , Yuanman Li , Jiantao Zhou

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

Continual learning algorithms are typically exposed to untrusted sources that contain training data inserted by adversaries and bad actors. An adversary can insert a small number of poisoned samples, such as mislabeled samples from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Huayu Li , Gregory Ditzler

Given the volume of data needed to train modern machine learning models, external suppliers are increasingly used. However, incorporating external data poses data poisoning risks, wherein attackers manipulate their data to degrade model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Zeng , Minzhou Pan , Himanshu Jahagirdar , Ming Jin , Lingjuan Lyu , Ruoxi Jia

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

These days, deep learning models have achieved great success in multiple fields, from autonomous driving to medical diagnosis. These models have expanded the abilities of artificial intelligence by offering great solutions to complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gopichandh Golla

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

Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversaries control a percentage of the training…

Multimodal contrastive learning methods like CLIP train on noisy and uncurated training datasets. This is cheaper than labeling datasets manually, and even improves out-of-distribution robustness. We show that this practice makes backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Nicholas Carlini , Andreas Terzis

We investigate security concerns of the emergent instruction tuning paradigm, that models are trained on crowdsourced datasets with task instructions to achieve superior performance. Our studies demonstrate that an attacker can inject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jiashu Xu , Mingyu Derek Ma , Fei Wang , Chaowei Xiao , Muhao Chen