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Data-driven control has emerged as a powerful paradigm for synthesizing controllers directly from data, bypassing explicit model identification. However, this reliance on data introduces new and largely unexplored vulnerabilities. In this…

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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

While recent works have indicated that federated learning (FL) may be vulnerable to poisoning attacks by compromised clients, their real impact on production FL systems is not fully understood. In this work, we aim to develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage

Model inversion attacks pose a significant privacy threat to machine learning models by reconstructing sensitive data from their outputs. While various defenses have been proposed to counteract these attacks, they often come at the cost of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Shuai Zhou , Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to confuse the model into making a mistake. Such examples pose a serious threat to the applicability of machine-learning-based systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peiyu Xiong , Michael Tegegn , Jaskeerat Singh Sarin , Shubhraneel Pal , Julia Rubin

The concept of learned index structures relies on the idea that the input-output functionality of a database index can be viewed as a prediction task and, thus, be implemented using a machine learning model instead of traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos , Silei Ren , Roberto Tamassia

Test-time adaptation (TTA) updates the model weights during the inference stage using testing data to enhance generalization. However, this practice exposes TTA to adversarial risks. Existing studies have shown that when TTA is updated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yongyi Su , Yushu Li , Nanqing Liu , Kui Jia , Xulei Yang , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Xun Xu

The widespread adoption of generative models such as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT has made them increasingly attractive targets for malicious exploitation, particularly through data poisoning. Existing poisoning attacks compromising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mathias Lundteigen Mohus , Jingyue Li , Zhirong Yang

Targeted data poisoning (TDP) aims to compromise the model's prediction on a specific (test) target by perturbing a small subset of training data. Existing work on TDP has focused on an overly ideal threat model in which the same image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhizhen Chen , Zhengyu Zhao , Subrat Kishore Dutta , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen , Xiao Zhang

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

This paper establishes a mathematically precise definition of dataset poisoning attack and proves that the very act of effectively poisoning a dataset ensures that the attack can be effectively detected. On top of a mathematical guarantee…

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Machine learning is becoming ubiquitous. From finance to medicine, machine learning models are boosting decision-making processes and even outperforming humans in some tasks. This huge progress in terms of prediction quality does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Marco Anisetti , Claudio A. Ardagna , Alessandro Balestrucci , Nicola Bena , Ernesto Damiani , Chan Yeob Yeun

We use distributionally-robust optimization for machine learning to mitigate the effect of data poisoning attacks. We provide performance guarantees for the trained model on the original data (not including the poison records) by training…

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Deep learning models have achieved high performance on many tasks, and thus have been applied to many security-critical scenarios. For example, deep learning-based face recognition systems have been used to authenticate users to access many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Xinyun Chen , Chang Liu , Bo Li , Kimberly Lu , Dawn Song

As machine learning models become increasingly complex, concerns about their robustness and trustworthiness have become more pressing. A critical vulnerability of these models is data poisoning attacks, where adversaries deliberately alter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Isha Gupta , Hidde Lycklama , Emanuel Opel , Evan Rose , Anwar Hithnawi

Recently, the newly emerged multimodal models, which leverage both visual and linguistic modalities to train powerful encoders, have gained increasing attention. However, learning from a large-scale unlabeled dataset also exposes the model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ziqing Yang , Xinlei He , Zheng Li , Michael Backes , Mathias Humbert , Pascal Berrang , Yang Zhang

Deep neural networks are susceptible to poisoning attacks by purposely polluted training data with specific triggers. As existing episodes mainly focused on attack success rate with patch-based samples, defense algorithms can easily detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jinyin Chen , Longyuan Zhang , Haibin Zheng , Xueke Wang , Zhaoyan Ming

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

We study defense strategies against reward poisoning attacks in reinforcement learning. As a threat model, we consider attacks that minimally alter rewards to make the attacker's target policy uniquely optimal under the poisoned rewards,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Kiarash Banihashem , Adish Singla , Goran Radanovic