arXiv AI By Bang An, Yibo Yang, Dandan Guo, Ebtisam Alshehri, Carlos Hinojosa, Bernard Ghanem

Defending Against Harmful Supervision Hidden in Benign Samples

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arXiv:2606. 30263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing defenses are effective when harmful content is explicitly mixed into downstream fine-tuning data, but crafted samples can instead hide harmful supervision inside benign tasks.

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arXiv AI
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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
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Hidden Threat in Synthetic Data: Covert Targeted Bias Injection through Benign Text

The paper examines how synthetic data can be used to covertly inject targeted social biases into aligned large language models. By having a misaligned teacher model generate filtered synthetic datasets in domains like creative writing and code generation, the authors fine‑tune aligned student models and demonstrate that the benign‑looking data can transmit biases while preserving general task performance. The study highlights a security risk in synthetic data‑driven LLM training pipelines and proposes log‑linearity‑based scoring as a potential safeguard.

By Minkyung Cho, Jihyo Kim, SeungWoo Song, Junghun Yuk, Minjoon Kee, Hoyun Song, KyungTae Lim