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Poisoning attacks, in which an attacker adversarially manipulates the training dataset of a machine learning (ML) model, pose a significant threat to ML security. Beta Poisoning is a recently proposed poisoning attack that disrupts model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nilufer Gulciftci , M. Emre Gursoy

Many modern machine learning classifiers are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the instances. Despite a massive amount of work focusing on making classifiers robust, the task seems quite challenging. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Saeed Mahloujifar , Dimitrios I. Diochnos , Mohammad Mahmoody

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

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

In medical practice, treatments are selected based on the expected causal effects on patient outcomes. Here, the gold standard for estimating causal effects are randomized controlled trials; however, such trials are costly and sometimes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-24 Dennis Frauen , Tobias Hatt , Valentyn Melnychuk , Stefan Feuerriegel

Machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to poisoning attacks: An adversary can inject malicious points in the training dataset to influence the learning process and degrade the algorithm's performance. Optimal poisoning attacks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Luis Muñoz-González , Bjarne Pfitzner , Matteo Russo , Javier Carnerero-Cano , Emil C. Lupu

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

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

Modern NLP models are often trained on public datasets drawn from diverse sources, rendering them vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. These attacks can manipulate the model's behavior in ways engineered by the attacker. One such tactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xuanli He , Qiongkai Xu , Jun Wang , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

We study the problem of generating data poisoning attacks against Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) models for the task of link prediction in knowledge graphs. To poison KGE models, we propose to exploit their inductive abilities which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Peru Bhardwaj , John Kelleher , Luca Costabello , Declan O'Sullivan

Model poisoning attacks greatly jeopardize the application of federated learning (FL). The effectiveness of existing defenses is susceptible to the latest model poisoning attacks, leading to a decrease in prediction accuracy. Besides, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Haonan Yan , Wenjing Zhang , Qian Chen , Xiaoguang Li , Wenhai Sun , Hui Li , Xiaodong Lin

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning diagram that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private local data. However, FL systems are vulnerable to attacks that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qilei Li , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem

We study the problem of robust learning under clean-label data-poisoning attacks, where the attacker injects (an arbitrary set of) correctly-labeled examples to the training set to fool the algorithm into making mistakes on specific test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Jian Qian , Han Shao

Property inference attacks consider an adversary who has access to the trained model and tries to extract some global statistics of the training data. In this work, we study property inference in scenarios where the adversary can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Melissa Chase , Esha Ghosh , Saeed Mahloujifar

Learned index structures achieve high performance by modeling the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of keys, but this reliance on data distributions introduces potential vulnerability to adversarial manipulation. Prior work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Allen Jue

A recent source of concern for the security of neural networks is the emergence of clean-label dataset poisoning attacks, wherein correctly labeled poison samples are injected into the training dataset. While these poison samples look…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hojjat Aghakhani , Dongyu Meng , Yu-Xiang Wang , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

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

Collecting training data from untrusted sources exposes machine learning services to poisoning adversaries, who maliciously manipulate training data to degrade the model accuracy. When trained on offline datasets, poisoning adversaries have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tianyu Pang , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Iterative Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a widely used paradigm for aligning Large Language Models on reasoning tasks. Existing approaches typically rely on Best-of-N sampling ($N\geq8$) to mine positive trajectories…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jun Rao , Zixiong Yu , Xuebo Liu , Guhan Chen , Jing Li , Hejin Wang , Jiansheng Wei , Xiaojun Meng , Min Zhang

Adversarial examples, inputs designed to induce worst-case behavior in machine learning models, have been extensively studied over the past decade. Yet, our understanding of this phenomenon stems from a rather fragmented pool of knowledge;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ryan Sheatsley , Blaine Hoak , Eric Pauley , Patrick McDaniel
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