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Contrastive learning pre-trains an image encoder using a large amount of unlabeled data such that the image encoder can be used as a general-purpose feature extractor for various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose PoisonedEncoder, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Hongbin Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Linjun Yang

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep neural networks, as backdoored models would misclassify poisoned samples with specific triggers into target classes while maintaining normal performance on clean samples. Among these,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yangxu Yin , Honglong Chen , Yudong Gao , Peng Sun , Liantao Wu , Zhe Li , Weifeng Liu

While graph neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performances in many real-world tasks including graph classification and node classification, recent works have demonstrated they are also extremely vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yu Zhou , Zihao Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Jingchen Tang

Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in various tasks such as node classification and graph classification. Recent studies find that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, effective backdoor attacks on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Enyan Dai , Minhua Lin , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gain its popularity in various scenarios in recent years. However, its excellent ability of fitting complex functions also makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Specifically, a backdoor can remain hidden…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xinrui Liu , Yu-an Tan , Yajie Wang , Kefan Qiu , Yuanzhang Li

Neural machine translation systems are known to be vulnerable to adversarial test inputs, however, as we show in this paper, these systems are also vulnerable to training attacks. Specifically, we propose a poisoning attack in which a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jun Wang , Chang Xu , Francisco Guzman , Ahmed El-Kishky , Yuqing Tang , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

When machine learning training is outsourced to third parties, $backdoor$ $attacks$ become practical as the third party who trains the model may act maliciously to inject hidden behaviors into the otherwise accurate model. Until now, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini , Alexey Kurakin

Generalization of machine learning models can be severely compromised by data poisoning, where adversarial changes are applied to the training data. This vulnerability has led to interest in certifying (i.e., proving) that such changes up…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lukas Gosch , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Stephan Günnemann

Backdoors and adversarial examples are the two primary threats currently faced by deep neural networks (DNNs). Both attacks attempt to hijack the model behaviors with unintended outputs by introducing (small) perturbations to the inputs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yunjie Ge , Qian Wang , Huayang Huang , Qi Li , Cong Wang , Chao Shen , Lingchen Zhao , Peipei Jiang , Zheng Fang , Shenyi Zhang

\textbf{P}re-\textbf{T}rained \textbf{M}odel\textbf{s} have been widely applied and recently proved vulnerable under backdoor attacks: the released pre-trained weights can be maliciously poisoned with certain triggers. When the triggers are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Linyang Li , Demin Song , Xiaonan Li , Jiehang Zeng , Ruotian Ma , Xipeng Qiu

Transferable adversarial attack is always in the spotlight since deep learning models have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial samples. However, existing physical attack methods do not pay enough attention on transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yu Zhang , Zhiqiang Gong , Yichuang Zhang , YongQian Li , Kangcheng Bin , Jiahao Qi , Wei Xue , Ping Zhong

We study indiscriminate poisoning for linear learners where an adversary injects a few crafted examples into the training data with the goal of forcing the induced model to incur higher test error. Inspired by the observation that linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fnu Suya , Xiao Zhang , Yuan Tian , David Evans

Deep learning (DL) models for natural language-to-code generation have become integral to modern software development pipelines. However, their heavy reliance on large amounts of data, often collected from unsanitized online sources,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Cristina Improta

This demo paper examines the susceptibility of Federated Learning (FL) systems to targeted data poisoning attacks, presenting a novel system for visualizing and mitigating such threats. We simulate targeted data poisoning attacks via label…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xueqing Zhang , Junkai Zhang , Ka-Ho Chow , Juntao Chen , Ying Mao , Mohamed Rahouti , Xiang Li , Yuchen Liu , Wenqi Wei

Multimodal contrastive pretraining has been used to train multimodal representation models, such as CLIP, on large amounts of paired image-text data. However, previous studies have revealed that such models are vulnerable to backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hritik Bansal , Nishad Singhi , Yu Yang , Fan Yin , Aditya Grover , Kai-Wei Chang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal text generation, yet their rapid adoption raises increasing concerns about security vulnerabilities. Existing backdoor attacks against VLMs primarily rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Haoyu Shen , Weimin Lyu , Haotian Xu , Tengfei Ma

Fake news detection models are critical to countering disinformation but can be manipulated through adversarial attacks. In this position paper, we analyze how an attacker can compromise the performance of an online learning detector on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Federico Siciliano , Luca Maiano , Lorenzo Papa , Federica Baccini , Irene Amerini , Fabrizio Silvestri