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Federated Learning (FL) has drawn the attention of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) community. FL can train various models for ITS tasks, notably camera-based Road Condition Classification (RCC), in a privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sheng Liu , Panos Papadimitratos

Recent research has successfully demonstrated new types of data poisoning attacks. To address this problem, some researchers have proposed both offline and online data poisoning detection defenses which employ machine learning algorithms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jack W. Stokes , Paul England , Kevin Kane

Machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where a fraction of the training data is manipulated to degrade the algorithms' performance. We show that current approaches, which typically assume that regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Javier Carnerero-Cano , Luis Muñoz-González , Phillippa Spencer , Emil C. Lupu

Regression models, which are widely used from engineering applications to financial forecasting, are vulnerable to targeted malicious attacks such as training data poisoning, through which adversaries can manipulate their predictions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Sandamal Weerasinghe , Sarah M. Erfani , Tansu Alpcan , Christopher Leckie , Justin Kopacz

Data poisoning attacks pose significant threats to machine learning models by introducing malicious data into the training process, thereby degrading model performance or manipulating predictions. Detecting and sifting out poisoned data is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haoqi He , Xiaokai Lin , Jiancai Chen , Yan Xiao

As pairwise ranking becomes broadly employed for elections, sports competitions, recommendations, and so on, attackers have strong motivation and incentives to manipulate the ranking list. They could inject malicious comparisons into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Jinshan Zeng , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to introduce unexpected behaviors into machine learning models at training time. For text-to-image generative models with massive training datasets, current understanding of poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shawn Shan , Wenxin Ding , Josephine Passananti , Stanley Wu , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Machine learning models trained on vast amounts of real or synthetic data often achieve outstanding predictive performance across various domains. However, this utility comes with increasing concerns about privacy, as the training data may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Binhao Ma , Tianhang Zheng , Hongsheng Hu , Di Wang , Shuo Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Federated edge learning can be essential in supporting privacy-preserving, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled activities in digital twin 6G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) environments. However, we need to also consider the potential of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Burak Kantarci , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Merouane Debbah , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

This paper investigates some of the risks introduced by "LLM poisoning," the intentional or unintentional introduction of malicious or biased data during model training. We demonstrate how a seemingly improved LLM, fine-tuned on a limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Patrick Karlsen , Even Eilertsen

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), a paradigm for managing big data in a privacy-preserved manner, is still vulnerable to poisoning attacks where malicious clients tamper with data or models. Current defense methods often assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Zien Zeng , Zi Ye , Jan von der Assen , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

There has been recent interest in leveraging federated learning (FL) for radio signal classification tasks. In FL, model parameters are periodically communicated from participating devices, training on their own local datasets, to a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Su Wang , Rajeev Sahay , Christopher G. Brinton

Learning reward models from pairwise comparisons is a fundamental component in a number of domains, including autonomous control, conversational agents, and recommendation systems, as part of a broad goal of aligning automated decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junlin Wu , Jiongxiao Wang , Chaowei Xiao , Chenguang Wang , Ning Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Deep learning models are often trained on distributed, web-scale datasets crawled from the internet. In this paper, we introduce two new dataset poisoning attacks that intentionally introduce malicious examples to a model's performance. Our…

Poisoning attacks have emerged as a significant security threat to machine learning algorithms. It has been demonstrated that adversaries who make small changes to the training set, such as adding specially crafted data points, can hurt the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Samuel Deng , Sanjam Garg , Somesh Jha , Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody , Abhradeep Thakurta

The rapidly expanding number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is generating huge quantities of data, but the data privacy and security exposure in IoT devices, especially in the automatic driving system. Federated learning (FL) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiayin Li , Wenzhong Guo , Xingshuo Han , Jianping Cai , Ximeng Liu

The unprecedented availability of training data fueled the rapid development of powerful neural networks in recent years. However, the need for such large amounts of data leads to potential threats such as poisoning attacks: adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Fabio De Gaspari , Dorjan Hitaj , Luigi V. Mancini

In targeted poisoning attacks, an attacker manipulates an agent-environment interaction to force the agent into adopting a policy of interest, called target policy. Prior work has primarily focused on attacks that modify standard MDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mohammad Mohammadi , Jonathan Nöther , Debmalya Mandal , Adish Singla , Goran Radanovic

Growing applications of large language models (LLMs) trained by a third party raise serious concerns on the security vulnerability of LLMs.It has been demonstrated that malicious actors can covertly exploit these vulnerabilities in LLMs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shuli Jiang , Swanand Ravindra Kadhe , Yi Zhou , Ling Cai , Nathalie Baracaldo

Manipulation of local training data and local updates, i.e., the poisoning attack, is the main threat arising from the collaborative nature of the federated learning (FL) paradigm. Most existing poisoning attacks aim to manipulate local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Huazi Pan , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Scott Adams , Abbas Kouzani , Suiyang Khoo