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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has proven effective in mitigating hallucinations in large language models by incorporating external knowledge during inference. However, this integration introduces new security vulnerabilities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Baolei Zhang , Haoran Xin , Jiatong Li , Dongzhe Zhang , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Lihai Nie , Zheli Liu

AI-based code generators have become pivotal in assisting developers in writing software starting from natural language (NL). However, they are trained on large amounts of data, often collected from unsanitized online sources (e.g., GitHub,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Domenico Cotroneo , Cristina Improta , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

While finetuning AI agents on interaction data -- such as web browsing or tool use -- improves their capabilities, it also introduces critical security vulnerabilities within the agentic AI supply chain. We show that adversaries can…

Many methods have been developed to understand complex predictive models and high expectations are placed on post-hoc model explainability. It turns out that such explanations are not robust nor trustworthy, and they can be fooled. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hubert Baniecki , Wojciech Kretowicz , Przemyslaw Biecek

Data poisoning is an attack on machine learning models wherein the attacker adds examples to the training set to manipulate the behavior of the model at test time. This paper explores poisoning attacks on neural nets. The proposed attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ali Shafahi , W. Ronny Huang , Mahyar Najibi , Octavian Suciu , Christoph Studer , Tudor Dumitras , Tom Goldstein

As machine learning models are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, visual explanation techniques have become essential tools for supporting transparency. In this work, we reveal a new class of attacks that compromise model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Farhin Farhad Riya , Shahinul Hoque , Jinyuan Stella Sun , Olivera Kotevska

Continual learning algorithms are typically exposed to untrusted sources that contain training data inserted by adversaries and bad actors. An adversary can insert a small number of poisoned samples, such as mislabeled samples from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Huayu Li , Gregory Ditzler

Graph-based agent memory is increasingly used in LLM agents to support structured long-term recall and multi-hop reasoning, but it also creates a new poisoning surface: an attacker can inject a crafted relation into graph memory so that it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yang Luo , Zifeng Kang , Tiantian Ji , Xinran Liu , Yong Liu , Shuyu Li , Lingyun Peng

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful in learning rich network representations that aid the performance of downstream tasks. However, recent studies showed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks involving node injection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Ansh Kumar Sharma , Rahul Kukreja , Mayank Kharbanda , Tanmoy Chakraborty

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

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a widely adopted paradigm for enhancing LLMs in medical applications by incorporating expert multimodal knowledge during generation. However, the underlying retrieval databases may naturally contain,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peiru Yang , Haoran Zheng , Tong Ju , Shiting Wang , Wanchun Ni , Jiajun Liu , Shangguang Wang , Yongfeng Huang , Tao Qi

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems have become widely used for enhancing large language model capabilities, but they introduce significant security vulnerabilities through prompt injection attacks. We present a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Badrinath Ramakrishnan , Akshaya Balaji

Adversarial attacks such as poisoning attacks have attracted the attention of many machine learning researchers. Traditionally, poisoning attacks attempt to inject adversarial training data in order to manipulate the trained model. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ali Raza , Shujun Li , Kim-Phuc Tran , Ludovic Koehl , Kim Duc Tran

Data poisoning attacks, in which a malicious adversary aims to influence a model by injecting "poisoned" data into the training process, have attracted significant recent attention. In this work, we take a closer look at existing poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yiwei Lu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu

Adversarial training (AT) is a robust learning algorithm that can defend against adversarial attacks in the inference phase and mitigate the side effects of corrupted data in the training phase. As such, it has become an indispensable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Song , Bo Han , Lei Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Ensuring the reliability of machine learning-based intrusion detection systems remains a critical challenge in Internet of Things (IoT) environments, particularly as data poisoning attacks increasingly threaten the integrity of model…

We present a data poisoning attack -- Phantom Transfer -- with the property that, even if you know precisely how the poison was placed into an otherwise benign dataset, you cannot filter it out. We achieve this by modifying subliminal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andrew Draganov , Tolga H. Dur , Anandmayi Bhongade , Mary Phuong

Both fair machine learning and adversarial learning have been extensively studied. However, attacking fair machine learning models has received less attention. In this paper, we present a framework that seeks to effectively generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Minh-Hao Van , Wei Du , Xintao Wu , Aidong Lu

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive natural language processing abilities but face challenges such as hallucination and outdated knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Baolei Zhang , Yuxi Chen , Zhuqing Liu , Lihai Nie , Tong Li , Zheli Liu , Minghong Fang