arxivcs.SDcs.AIcs.CL2026-06-27
Clustering Unsupervised Representations as Defense against Poisoning Attacks on Speech Commands Classification System
Thomas Thebaud, Sonal Joshi, Henry Li, Martin Sustek, Jesus Villalba, Sanjeev Khudanpur, et al.
Poisoning attacks entail attackers intentionally tampering with training data. In this paper, we consider a dirty-label poisoning attack scenario on a speech commands classification system. The threat model assumes that certain utterances from one of the classes (source class) ar…