defense arXiv Apr 24, 2026 · 27d ago
Yuan Xiao, Jiaming Wang, Yuchen Chen et al. · Nanjing University · University of New South Wales +3 more
Dataset poisoning defense that injects compilable, functionality-preserving code fragments to degrade CodeLLM training with only 10% contamination
Data Poisoning Attack Training Data Poisoning nlp
The widespread availability of large-scale code datasets has accelerated the development of code large language models (CodeLLMs), raising concerns about unauthorized dataset usage. Dataset poisoning offers a proactive defense by reducing the utility of such unauthorized training. However, existing poisoning methods often require full dataset poisoning and introduce transformations that break code compilability. In this paper, we introduce FunPoison, a functionality-preserving poisoning approach that injects short, compilable weak-use fragments into executed code paths. FunPoison leverages reusable statement-level templates with automatic repair and conservative safety checking to ensure side-effect freedom, while a type-aware synthesis module suppresses static analysis warnings and enhances stealth. Extensive experiments show that FunPoison achieves effective poisoning by contaminating only 10% of the dataset, while maintaining 100% compilability and functional correctness, and remains robust against various advanced code sanitization techniques.
llm transformer Nanjing University · University of New South Wales · Singapore Management University +2 more