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Minimizing risk with fairness constraints is one of the popular approaches to learning a fair classifier. Recent works showed that this approach yields an unfair classifier if the training set is corrupted. In this work, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Changhun Jo , Jy-yong Sohn , Kangwook Lee

Membership inference attacks are one of the simplest forms of privacy leakage for machine learning models: given a data point and model, determine whether the point was used to train the model. Existing membership inference attacks exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Florian Tramer , Nicholas Carlini , Nicolas Papernot

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world systems, making it critical to understand their vulnerabilities. While data poisoning attacks during RLHF/DPO alignment have been studied empirically, their theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Shigeki Kusaka , Keita Saito , Mikoto Kudo , Takumi Tanabe , Akifumi Wachi , Youhei Akimoto

We consider availability data poisoning attacks, where an adversary aims to degrade the overall test accuracy of a machine learning model by crafting small perturbations to its training data. Existing poisoning strategies can achieve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yiyong Liu , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Adversarial examples are delicately perturbed inputs, which aim to mislead machine learning models towards incorrect outputs. While most of the existing work focuses on generating adversarial perturbations in multi-class classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Qingquan Song , Haifeng Jin , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

In this paper, we delve into the susceptibility of federated medical image analysis systems to adversarial attacks. Our analysis uncovers a novel exploitation avenue: using gradient information from prior global model updates, adversaries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Erfan Darzi , Florian Dubost , Nanna. M. Sijtsema , P. M. A van Ooijen

Evasion attack in multi-label learning systems is an interesting, widely witnessed, yet rarely explored research topic. Characterizing the crucial factors determining the attackability of the multi-label adversarial threat is the key to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Zhuo Yang , Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang

Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Bethge

Availability attacks, which poison the training data with imperceptible perturbations, can make the data \emph{not exploitable} by machine learning algorithms so as to prevent unauthorized use of data. In this work, we investigate why these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Da Yu , Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Jian Yin , Tie-Yan Liu

As a privacy-preserving method for implementing Vertical Federated Learning, Split Learning has been extensively researched. However, numerous studies have indicated that the privacy-preserving capability of Split Learning is insufficient.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Haoze Qiu , Fei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Xiaolin Zheng

Federated Learning is an important emerging distributed training paradigm that keeps data private on clients. It is now well understood that by controlling only a small subset of FL clients, it is possible to introduce a backdoor to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Joseph Rance , Filip Svoboda

Machine learning has been applied to a broad range of applications and some of them are available online as application programming interfaces (APIs) with either free (trial) or paid subscriptions. In this paper, we study adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Jason H. Li

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

Recent advances in federated learning have demonstrated its promising capability to learn on decentralized datasets. However, a considerable amount of work has raised concerns due to the potential risks of adversaries participating in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 KiYoon Yoo , Nojun Kwak

Research in adversarial machine learning has shown how the performance of machine learning models can be seriously compromised by injecting even a small fraction of poisoning points into the training data. While the effects on model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 David Solans , Battista Biggio , Carlos Castillo

Deep learning on graph structures has shown exciting results in various applications. However, few attentions have been paid to the robustness of such models, in contrast to numerous research work for image or text adversarial attack and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hanjun Dai , Hui Li , Tian Tian , Xin Huang , Lin Wang , Jun Zhu , Le Song

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries alter model behavior on target classification labels by embedding triggers into data samples. While these attacks have received considerable attention in…

Distributed learning paradigms such as federated learning often involve transmission of model updates, or gradients, over a network, thereby avoiding transmission of private data. However, it is possible for sensitive information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Trung Dang , Om Thakkar , Swaroop Ramaswamy , Rajiv Mathews , Peter Chin , Françoise Beaufays

Data attribution has become an important component of pricing, auditing, and governance in machine learning pipelines, yet most attribution methods implicitly assume that attribution values faithfully reflect participants' contributions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xian Gao , Bo Hui , Min-Te Sun , Wei-Shinn Ku

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a new form of collaborative machine learning, where a common model can be learned while keeping all the training data on local devices. Although it is designed for enhancing the data privacy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Lixu Wang , Shichao Xu , Xiao Wang , Qi Zhu