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Nowadays, collaborative filtering recommender systems have been widely deployed in many commercial companies to make profit. Neighbourhood-based collaborative filtering is common and effective. To date, despite its effectiveness, there has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Chen , Yangjun Xu , Fenfang Xie , Min Huang , Zibin Zheng

In practice, users of a Recommender System (RS) fall into a few clusters based on their preferences. In this work, we conduct a systematic study on user-cluster targeted data poisoning attacks on Matrix Factorisation (MF) based RS, where an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sulthana Shams , Douglas Leith

Recently, recommender systems have achieved promising performances and become one of the most widely used web applications. However, recommender systems are often trained on highly sensitive user data, thus potential data leakage from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Minxing Zhang , Zhaochun Ren , Zihan Wang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Pengfei Hu , Yang Zhang

Recommender systems (RS) are increasingly vulnerable to shilling attacks, where adversaries inject fake user profiles to manipulate system outputs. Traditional attack strategies often rely on simplistic heuristics, require access to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Shengkang Gu , Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Guangping Zhang , Mingzhe Han , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Li Shang , Tun Lu

In shilling attacks, an adversarial party injects a few fake user profiles into a Recommender System (RS) so that the target item can be promoted or demoted. Although much effort has been devoted to developing shilling attack methods, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Meifang Zeng , Ke Li , Bingchuan Jiang , Liujuan Cao , Hui Li

The robustness of recommender systems under node injection attacks has garnered significant attention. Recently, GraphRfi, a GNN-based recommender system, was proposed and shown to effectively mitigate the impact of injected fake users.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuni Lai , Yulin Zhu , Wenqi Fan , Xiaoge Zhang , Kai Zhou

Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time. In this work, we show that these training-time vulnerabilities extend to deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Panagiota Kiourti , Kacper Wardega , Susmit Jha , Wenchao Li

Recommender systems have become an integral part of online services to help users locate specific information in a sea of data. However, existing studies show that some recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Thanh Toan Nguyen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Matthias Weidlich , Hongzhi Yin

Online recommendation systems make use of a variety of information sources to provide users the items that users are potentially interested in. However, due to the openness of the online platform, recommendation systems are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hengtong Zhang , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Jing Gao

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have emerged as a promising solution to mitigate LLM hallucinations and enhance their performance in knowledge-intensive domains. However, these systems are vulnerable to adversarial poisoning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jinyan Su , Jin Peng Zhou , Zhengxin Zhang , Preslav Nakov , Claire Cardie

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have found extensive applications in safety-critical artificial intelligence systems, such as autonomous driving and facial recognition systems. However, recent research has revealed their susceptibility to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lingxin Jin , Xianyu Wen , Wei Jiang , Jinyu Zhan

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to Trojan (or backdoor) attacks. Reverse-engineering methods can reconstruct the trigger and thus identify affected models. Existing reverse-engineering methods only consider input space constraints,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenting Wang , Kai Mei , Hailun Ding , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems can effectively mitigate the hallucination problem of large language models (LLMs),but they also possess inherent vulnerabilities. Identifying these weaknesses before the large-scale real-world…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hongru Song , Yu-an Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan

As an essential tool in security, the intrusion detection system bears the responsibility of the defense to network attacks performed by malicious traffic. Nowadays, with the help of machine learning algorithms, intrusion detection systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Zilong Lin , Yong Shi , Zhi Xue

News Recommendation System(NRS) has become a fundamental technology to many online news services. Meanwhile, several studies show that recommendation systems(RS) are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, and the attackers have the ability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xudong Zhang , Zan Wang , Jingke Zhao , Lanjun Wang

Deep neural network based face recognition models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, many of the past attacks require the adversary to solve an input-dependent optimization problem using gradient descent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Shehzeen Hussain , Todd Huster , Chris Mesterharm , Paarth Neekhara , Kevin An , Malhar Jere , Harshvardhan Sikka , Farinaz Koushanfar

Recommendation Systems (RS) have become an essential part of many online services. Due to its pivotal role in guiding customers towards purchasing, there is a natural motivation for unscrupulous parties to spoof RS for profits. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chen Lin , Si Chen , Hui Li , Yanghua Xiao , Lianyun Li , Qian Yang

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges for detecting adversarial attacks at an early stage. We propose attack-agnostic detection on reinforcement learning-based interactive recommendation systems. We first craft adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yuanjiang Cao , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wei Emma Zhang

As the semiconductor industry has shifted to a fabless paradigm, the risk of hardware Trojans being inserted at various stages of production has also increased. Recently, there has been a growing trend toward the use of machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Rahul Vishwakarma , Amin Rezaei

Recommendation systems (RS) have become indispensable tools for web services to address information overload, thus enhancing user experiences and bolstering platforms' revenues. However, with their increasing ubiquity, security concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xiaohao Liu , Zhulin Tao , Ting Jiang , He Chang , Yunshan Ma , Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang