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Backdoor attacks pose a significant security vulnerability for deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling them to operate normally on clean inputs but manipulate predictions when specific trigger patterns occur. Currently, post-training backdoor…

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The use of pretrained models from general computer vision tasks is widespread in remote sensing, significantly reducing training costs and improving performance. However, this practice also introduces vulnerabilities to downstream tasks,…

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Due to the prosperity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, more and more backdoors are designed by adversaries to attack Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).Although the state-of-the-art method Neural Attention Distillation (NAD) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jun Xia , Ting Wang , Jiepin Ding , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yangzi Guo , Yiyuan She , Adrian Barbu

In the era of increasing concerns over cybersecurity threats, defending against backdoor attacks is paramount in ensuring the integrity and reliability of machine learning models. However, many existing approaches require substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is a popular and effective strategy to defend against adversarial attacks. Recent works (Benz et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2021; Tian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Boqi Li , Weiwei Liu

As machine learning (ML) systems are being increasingly employed in the real world to handle sensitive tasks and make decisions in various fields, the security and privacy of those models have also become increasingly critical. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Marwan Omar

Recent work has shown deep neural networks (DNNs) to be highly susceptible to well-designed, small perturbations at the input layer, or so-called adversarial examples. Taking images as an example, such distortions are often imperceptible,…

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The increasing use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical systems has raised concerns about their potential for exhibiting ill-behaviors. While DNN verification and testing provide post hoc conclusions regarding unexpected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhen Liang , Taoran Wu , Changyuan Zhao , Wanwei Liu , Bai Xue , Wenjing Yang , Ji Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial attacks that place carefully crafted perturbations on normal examples to fool DNNs. To better understand such attacks, a characterization of the features carried by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rui Zheng , Yuhao Zhou , Zhiheng Xi , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved excellent performance on several tasks and have been widely applied in both academia and industry. However, DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial machine learning attacks, in which noise is added to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Huy H. Nguyen , Minoru Kuribayashi , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

Backdoor attacks pose a critical threat to machine learning models, causing them to behave normally on clean data but misclassify poisoned data into a poisoned class. Existing defenses often attempt to identify and remove backdoor neurons…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kazuki Iwahana , Yusuke Yamasaki , Akira Ito , Takayuki Miura , Toshiki Shibahara

Audio-based machine learning systems frequently use public or third-party data, which might be inaccurate. This exposes deep neural network (DNN) models trained on such data to potential data poisoning attacks. In this type of assault,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Orson Mengara

As deep neural networks (DNNs) become widely used, pruned and quantised models are becoming ubiquitous on edge devices; such compressed DNNs are popular for lowering computational requirements. Meanwhile, recent studies show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Ross Anderson

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial noise. Preprocessing based defenses could largely remove adversarial noise by processing inputs. However, they are typically affected by the error amplification effect, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Dawei Zhou , Nannan Wang , Chunlei Peng , Xinbo Gao , Xiaoyu Wang , Jun Yu , Tongliang Liu

Backdoor attacks pose an increasingly severe security threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) during their development stage. In response, backdoor sample purification has emerged as a promising defense mechanism, aiming to eliminate backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Biao Yi , Sishuo Chen , Yiming Li , Tong Li , Baolei Zhang , Zheli Liu

Deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly being used to perform algorithm-selection in combinatorial optimisation domains, particularly as they accommodate input representations which avoid designing and calculating features. Mounting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Emma Hart , Quentin Renau , Kevin Sim , Mohamad Alissa

Natural language processing (NLP) models are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which poses a newly arisen threat to NLP models. Prior online backdoor defense methods for NLP models only focus on the anomalies at either the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Sishuo Chen , Wenkai Yang , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xiaohan Bi , Xu Sun