攻击推荐系统中的检索增强生成,通过篡改商品标签操纵推荐结果。
Poison-RAG: Adversarial Data Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Recommender Systems
- 用大模型生成标签并结合嵌入向量,设计局部与全局篡改策略。
- 局部攻击可提升50%操控效果,但热门商品更易被攻击,长尾商品难操控。
- 适用于研究推荐系统安全的学者,尤其关注对抗性数据污染者。
本文提出Poison-RAG框架,针对基于检索增强生成(RAG)的推荐系统开展对抗性数据投毒攻击。通过篡改商品元数据(如标签、描述)影响推荐结果。利用大语言模型生成标签,借助OpenAI API获取嵌入向量,在黑盒环境下对平台侧实施攻击,旨在促进长尾商品、压制热门商品。提出两种策略:局部修改(基于BERT嵌入为每项个性化标签)和全局修改(全数据集统一标签)。在MovieLens数据集上的实验表明,局部策略可使操控效率提升最高达50%,而全局策略可能意外提升已有热门商品的曝光。结果显示,热门商品更易受攻击,长尾商品更难操控。约70%的商品缺乏标签,带来冷启动挑战;建议通过数据增强与合成提升RAG系统的鲁棒性。研究强调需加强元数据管理以保护推荐框架安全。代码与数据见https://github.com/atenanaz/Poison-RAG。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This study presents Poison-RAG, a framework for adversarial data poisoning attacks targeting retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based recommender systems. Poison-RAG manipulates item metadata, such as tags and descriptions, to influence recommendation outcomes. Using item metadata generated through a large language model (LLM) and embeddings derived via the OpenAI API, we explore the impact of adversarial poisoning attacks on provider-side, where attacks are designed to promote long-tail items and demote popular ones. Two attack strategies are proposed: local modifications, which personalize tags for each item using BERT embeddings, and global modifications, applying uniform tags across the dataset. Experiments conducted on the MovieLens dataset in a black-box setting reveal that local strategies improve manipulation effectiveness by up to 50\%, while global strategies risk boosting already popular items. Results indicate that popular items are more susceptible to attacks, whereas long-tail items are harder to manipulate. Approximately 70\% of items lack tags, presenting a cold-start challenge; data augmentation and synthesis are proposed as potential defense mechanisms to enhance RAG-based systems' resilience. The findings emphasize the need for robust metadata management to safeguard recommendation frameworks. Code and data are available at https://github.com/atenanaz/Poison-RAG.
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