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The backdoor or Trojan attack is a severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Researchers find that DNNs trained on benign data and settings can also learn backdoor behaviors, which is known as the natural backdoor. Existing works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenting Wang , Hailun Ding , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

In recent years, deep learning has shown performance breakthroughs in many applications, such as image detection, image segmentation, pose estimation, and speech recognition. However, this comes with a major concern: deep networks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Felix Kreuk , Assi Barak , Shir Aviv-Reuven , Moran Baruch , Benny Pinkas , Joseph Keshet

A variety of defenses have been proposed against Trojans planted in (backdoor attacks on) deep neural network (DNN) classifiers. Backdoor-agnostic methods seek to reliably detect and/or to mitigate backdoors irrespective of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Guangmingmei Yang , Xi Li , Hang Wang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Backdoors pose a serious threat to machine learning, as they can compromise the integrity of security-critical systems, such as self-driving cars. While different defenses have been proposed to address this threat, they all rely on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Alexander Warnecke , Julian Speith , Jan-Niklas Möller , Konrad Rieck , Christof Paar

The adversarial machine learning literature is largely partitioned into evasion attacks on testing data and poisoning attacks on training data. In this work, we show that adversarial examples, originally intended for attacking pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Liam Fowl , Micah Goldblum , Ping-yeh Chiang , Jonas Geiping , Wojtek Czaja , Tom Goldstein

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in various applications including video action recognition, yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks (Trojans). The backdoor-compromised model will mis-classify to the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xi Li , Songhe Wang , Ruiquan Huang , Mahanth Gowda , George Kesidis

Adversarial training was introduced as a way to improve the robustness of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. This training method improves robustness against adversarial attacks, but increases the models vulnerability to privacy…

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, formed by applying small but malicious perturbations to the original inputs. Moreover, the perturbations can \textit{transfer across models}:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Lei Wu , Zhanxing Zhu , Cheng Tai , Weinan E

A backdoor data poisoning attack is an adversarial attack wherein the attacker injects several watermarked, mislabeled training examples into a training set. The watermark does not impact the test-time performance of the model on typical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Naren Sarayu Manoj , Avrim Blum

Recent works have demonstrated the vulnerability of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms against training-time, backdoor poisoning attacks. The objectives of these attacks are twofold: induce pre-determined, adversarial behavior in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ethan Rathbun , Alina Oprea , Christopher Amato

Machine learning systems are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers manipulate model behavior through data tampering or architectural modifications. Traditional backdoor attacks involve injecting malicious samples with specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuan Ma , Jiankang Wei , Yilun Lyu , Kehao Chen , Jingtong Huang

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs designed to fool machine learning models. Adversarial training injects such examples into training data to increase robustness. To scale this technique to large datasets, perturbations are crafted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-28 Florian Tramèr , Alexey Kurakin , Nicolas Papernot , Ian Goodfellow , Dan Boneh , Patrick McDaniel

Recently, a series of pioneer studies have shown the potency of pre-trained models in sequential recommendation, illuminating the path of building an omniscient unified pre-trained recommendation model for different downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yiqing Wu , Ruobing Xie , Zhao Zhang , Yongchun Zhu , FuZhen Zhuang , Jie Zhou , Yongjun Xu , Qing He

Federated Learning (FL) enables numerous participants to train deep learning models collaboratively without exposing their personal, potentially sensitive data, making it a promising solution for data privacy in collaborative training. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Manaar Alam , Esha Sarkar , Michail Maniatakos

Adversarial examples are maliciously modified inputs created to fool deep neural networks (DNN). The discovery of such inputs presents a major issue to the expansion of DNN-based solutions. Many researchers have already contributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Alessandro Cennamo , Ido Freeman , Anton Kummert

With the broad application of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor attacks have gradually attracted attention. Backdoor attacks are insidious, and poisoned models perform well on benign samples and are only triggered when given specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Chang Yue , Peizhuo Lv , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks (Trojans), where an attacker poisons the training set with backdoor triggers so that the neural network learns to classify test-time triggers to the attacker's designated target class.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Hang Wang , Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Deep neural networks are at the forefront of machine learning research. However, despite achieving impressive performance on complex tasks, they can be very sensitive: Small perturbations of inputs can be sufficient to induce incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Trojan attacks on deep neural networks are both dangerous and surreptitious. Over the past few years, Trojan attacks have advanced from using only a single input-agnostic trigger and targeting only one class to using multiple,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Kien Do , Haripriya Harikumar , Hung Le , Dung Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Santu Rana , Dang Nguyen , Willy Susilo , Svetha Venkatesh

Making learners robust to adversarial perturbation at test time (i.e., evasion attacks) or training time (i.e., poisoning attacks) has emerged as a challenging task. It is known that for some natural settings, sublinear perturbations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody