Sonic: Fast and Transferable Data Poisoning on Clustering Algorithms

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Hauptverfasser: Villani, Francesco, Lazzaro, Dario, Cinà, Antonio Emanuele, Dell'Amico, Matteo, Biggio, Battista, Roli, Fabio
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author Villani, Francesco
Lazzaro, Dario
Cinà, Antonio Emanuele
Dell'Amico, Matteo
Biggio, Battista
Roli, Fabio
author_facet Villani, Francesco
Lazzaro, Dario
Cinà, Antonio Emanuele
Dell'Amico, Matteo
Biggio, Battista
Roli, Fabio
contents Data poisoning attacks on clustering algorithms have received limited attention, with existing methods struggling to scale efficiently as dataset sizes and feature counts increase. These attacks typically require re-clustering the entire dataset multiple times to generate predictions and assess the attacker's objectives, significantly hindering their scalability. This paper addresses these limitations by proposing Sonic, a novel genetic data poisoning attack that leverages incremental and scalable clustering algorithms, e.g., FISHDBC, as surrogates to accelerate poisoning attacks against graph-based and density-based clustering methods, such as HDBSCAN. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of Sonic in poisoning the target clustering algorithms. We then conduct a comprehensive analysis of the factors affecting the scalability and transferability of poisoning attacks against clustering algorithms, and we conclude by examining the robustness of hyperparameters in our attack strategy Sonic.
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spellingShingle Sonic: Fast and Transferable Data Poisoning on Clustering Algorithms
Villani, Francesco
Lazzaro, Dario
Cinà, Antonio Emanuele
Dell'Amico, Matteo
Biggio, Battista
Roli, Fabio
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Data poisoning attacks on clustering algorithms have received limited attention, with existing methods struggling to scale efficiently as dataset sizes and feature counts increase. These attacks typically require re-clustering the entire dataset multiple times to generate predictions and assess the attacker's objectives, significantly hindering their scalability. This paper addresses these limitations by proposing Sonic, a novel genetic data poisoning attack that leverages incremental and scalable clustering algorithms, e.g., FISHDBC, as surrogates to accelerate poisoning attacks against graph-based and density-based clustering methods, such as HDBSCAN. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of Sonic in poisoning the target clustering algorithms. We then conduct a comprehensive analysis of the factors affecting the scalability and transferability of poisoning attacks against clustering algorithms, and we conclude by examining the robustness of hyperparameters in our attack strategy Sonic.
title Sonic: Fast and Transferable Data Poisoning on Clustering Algorithms
topic Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07558