Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 7

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Learning the Backdoor to Remove the Backdoor

The community has recently developed various training-time defenses to counter neural backdoors introduced through data poisoning. In light of the observation that a model learns poisonous samples responsible for the backdoor easier than benign samples, these approaches either use a fixed threshold of the training loss for splitting or iteratively learn a reference model as an oracle for identifying benign samples.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Empirical Evaluation of Data Poisoning Attacks in Supervised Learning

The paper evaluates two training‑time data poisoning attacks—label flipping and backdoor poisoning—on MNIST and Fashion‑MNIST using Logistic Regression, Linear SVM, and Random Forest classifiers. Label flipping degrades performance most for Logistic Regression and Linear SVM, while Random Forest remains relatively stable. Backdoor poisoning achieves near‑perfect attack success rates across all models while largely preserving clean‑test accuracy, highlighting the stealthy nature of targeted backdoors.

By Toshif Khan (Minot State University), Muhammad Abusaqer (Minot State University)
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Phantom Transfer: Data Poisoning can Survive Data-Level Defences

arXiv:2602. 04899v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 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.

By Andrew Draganov, Tolga H. Dur, Anandmayi Bhongade, Mary Phuong