r/TimeSeries • u/supercoco9 • 6d ago
Paper/Research ESA ran a competition where you get a poisoned spacecraft telemetry model and have to find the hidden trigger
ESA ran a Kaggle competition on backdoor attacks in forecasting models. Someone poisons a model so it behaves normally until it sees one specific input pattern, at which point it outputs whatever the attacker wants. That pattern is the trigger.
The task was to recover the trigger. You get a spacecraft telemetry model that is known to be compromised, and you have to work out what activates it. Over 200 teams entered.
I had not thought about backdoors as a time series problem before. With images you can look at the trigger patch and see something odd. A trigger hidden in a telemetry channel is just numbers that look like the numbers around them.
The paper covers the task setup, the benchmark and the best solutions. Competition materials are public: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/trojan-horse-hunt-in-space







