Manipulating Supply Chain Demand Forecasting With Targeted Poisoning Attacks

Demand forecasting (DF) plays an essential role in supply chain management, as it provides an estimate of the goods that customers are expected to purchase in the foreseeable future. While machine learning techniques are widely used for building DF models, they also become more susceptible to data poisoning attacks. In this article, we study the vulnerability of targeted poisoning attacks for linear regression DF models, where the attacker controls the behavior of forecasting models on a specific target sample without compromising the overall forecasting performance.

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