802Course · Practitioner

Data Poisoning

The training-time attack.

The Course

The training-time attack. Targeted and untargeted poisoning, backdoor attacks, and provenance-based defenses.

Outcomes
  • 01

    Distinguish poisoning strategies.

  • 02

    Detect poisoning in a dataset.

  • 03

    Design a training pipeline resistant to poisoning.

  • 04

    Read the literature.

Prerequisites
  • Program III — Applied ML.
Pacing

~3 hours.

A Note from the Faculty

Poisoning is the attack you cannot detect after the fact.