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Adversarial attacks significantly threaten the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite the multiple defensive methods employed, they are nevertheless vulnerable to poison attacks, where attackers meddle with the initial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Bakary Badjie , José Cecílio , António Casimiro

Recent studies have demonstrated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks during the training process. Specifically, the adversaries intend to embed hidden backdoors in DNNs so that malicious model predictions can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Sheng Yang , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing concerning threats to their reliable deployment. Recent research reveals that backdoors can be erased from infected DNNs by pruning a specific group of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Nan Li , Haiyang Yu , Ping Yi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have progressed rapidly during the past decade and have been deployed in various real-world applications. Meanwhile, DNN models have been shown to be vulnerable to security and privacy attacks. One such attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Xiaoyi Chen , Ahmed Salem , Dingfan Chen , Michael Backes , Shiqing Ma , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu , Yang Zhang

With the flourishing development of intelligent warehousing systems, the technology of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) has experienced rapid growth. Within intelligent warehousing environments, AGV is required to safely and rapidly plan an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Huilin Yin , Shengkai Su , Yinjia Lin , Pengju Zhen , Karin Festl , Daniel Watzenig

Recent studies show that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks against GNNs use fixed-pattern triggers and lack reasonable trigger constraints, overlooking individual graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xuewen Dong , Jiachen Li , Shujun Li , Zhichao You , Qiang Qu , Yaroslav Kholodov , Yulong Shen

Backdoor attacks impose a new threat in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where a backdoor is inserted into the neural network by poisoning the training dataset, misclassifying inputs that contain the adversary trigger. The major challenge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yue Wang , Wenqing Li , Esha Sarkar , Muhammad Shafique , Michail Maniatakos , Saif Eddin Jabari

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is essential for compressing large models, yet relying on pre-trained "teacher" models downloaded from third-party repositories introduces serious security risks--most notably backdoor attacks. Existing KD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shanmin Wang , Dongdong Zhao

It has been shown that natural language processing (NLP) models are vulnerable to a kind of security threat called the Backdoor Attack, which utilizes a `backdoor trigger' paradigm to mislead the models. The most threatening backdoor attack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Lingfeng Shen , Haiyun Jiang , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi

Backdoor attacks pose a persistent security risk to deep neural networks (DNNs) due to their stealth and durability. While recent research has explored leveraging model unlearning mechanisms to enhance backdoor concealment, existing attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Baogang Song , Dongdong Zhao , Jianwen Xiang , Qiben Xu , Zizhuo Yu

AlphaGo's astonishing performance has ignited an explosive interest in developing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for numerous real-world applications, such as intelligent robotics. However, the often prohibitive complexity of DRL stands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Zhongzhi Yu , Yongan Zhang , Yingyan Celine Lin

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Neural Architecture Search (NAS), one of the driving tools of deep neural networks, demonstrates superior performance in prediction accuracy in various machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Utkarsh Nath , Yancheng Wang , Yingzhen Yang

Though deep neural networks have achieved the state of the art performance in visual classification, recent studies have shown that they are all vulnerable to the attack of adversarial examples. In this paper, we develop improved techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Dou Goodman , Xingjian Li , Ji Liu , Dejing Dou , Tao Wei

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a vital technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained devices by transferring knowledge from large teacher models to lightweight student models. While teacher models from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yukun Chen , Boheng Li , Yu Yuan , Leyi Qi , Yiming Li , Tianwei Zhang , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack despite their tremendous success in many AI fields. Adversarial attack is a method that causes the intended misclassfication by adding imperceptible perturbations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Huy Phan , Yi Xie , Siyu Liao , Jie Chen , Bo Yuan

The advent of scalable deep models and large datasets has improved the performance of Neural Machine Translation. Knowledge Distillation (KD) enhances efficiency by transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a more compact student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Heegon Jin , Seonil Son , Jemin Park , Youngseok Kim , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee

Deep neural networks have been widely used in many critical applications, such as autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. However, their security is threatened by backdoor attacks, which are achieved by adding artificial patterns to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Dong Huang , Qingwen Bu

Knowledge distillation is effective for producing small, high-performance neural networks for classification, but these small networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper studies how adversarial robustness transfers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Micah Goldblum , Liam Fowl , Soheil Feizi , Tom Goldstein

This paper investigates the threat of backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent policies and proposes a novel method for their detection at runtime. Our study focuses on elusive in-distribution backdoor triggers. Such triggers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sanyam Vyas , Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs). A large amount of efforts have been spent to launch and heat the arms race between the attackers and defenders. Recently, advanced gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Qinkai Zheng , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Gerard Memmi