title: mithridatium authors: - given-names: Pelumi family-names: Oluwategbe email: pelumi.oluwategbe@slu.edu affiliation: Saint Louis University - given-names: William family-names: Phoenix email: will.phoenix@slu.edu affiliation: Saint Louis University - given-names: Gustavo family-names: Lucca email: gustavo.lucca@slu.edu affiliation: Saint Louis University - given-names: Payton family-names: Guffey email: payton.guffey@slu.edu affiliation: Saint Louis University cff-version: 1.2.0 message: If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata from this file. type: software abstract: Mithridatium is a research-driven project aimed at detecting backdoors and data poisoning in downloaded pretrained models or pipelines (e.g., from Hugging Face). Our goal is to provide a modular, command-line tool that helps researchers and engineers trust the models they use. keywords: - data privacy - machine-learning - python - security license: MIT-Modern-Variant repository-code: https://github.com/oss-slu/mithridatium