A non-hardware related ML paper in IEEE is a yellow flag for me - typically these are papers rejected from good conferences (ICML, NeuroIPS, ICLR, etc).
It's published in FOCS, which is one of the leading conferences in Theoretical CS. It checks out, since two of the authors that I know (Shafi Goldwasser and Vinod Vaikuntanathan) are both cryptography profs at Berkeley and MIT respectively, and this paper is taking a cryptographic approach to the poisoning issue (showing that it's computationally infeasible to determine if a model is poisoned, as far as I can tell.)
(A Turing award winner and a Godel prize winner professors at Berkeley and MIT)