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Deep learning models are widely deployed in many applications, such as object detection in various security fields. However, these models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Most backdoor attacks were intensively studied on classified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yaguan Qian , Boyuan Ji , Shuke He , Shenhui Huang , Xiang Ling , Bin Wang , Wei Wang

Backdoor attacks (BA) are an emerging threat to deep neural network classifiers. A classifier being attacked will predict to the attacker's target class when a test sample from a source class is embedded with the backdoor pattern (BP).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , Siheng Chen , Xi Li , George Kesidis

Recent research shows deep neural networks are vulnerable to different types of attacks, such as adversarial attack, data poisoning attack and backdoor attack. Among them, backdoor attack is the most cunning one and can occur in almost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jie Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Qidong Huang , Jing Liao , Weiming Zhang , Huamin Feng , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

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

Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become increasingly prevalent in many real world applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cong Liao , Haoti Zhong , Anna Squicciarini , Sencun Zhu , David Miller

Backdoor attacks pose a critical threat to the security of deep neural networks, yet existing efforts on universal backdoors often rely on visually salient patterns, making them easier to detect and less practical at scale. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hsin Lin , Yan-Lun Chen , Ren-Hung Hwang , Chia-Mu Yu

Backdoor attacks are an insidious security threat against machine learning models. Adversaries can manipulate the predictions of compromised models by inserting triggers into the training phase. Various backdoor attacks have been devised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xuanli He , Jun Wang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

Federated learning is a promising approach for training machine learning models while preserving data privacy. However, its distributed nature makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks, particularly in NLP tasks, where related research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Minyeong Choe , Cheolhee Park , Changho Seo , Hyunil Kim

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary manipulates a small portion of training data such that the victim model predicts normally on the benign samples but classifies the triggered samples as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yinghua Gao , Yiming Li , Xueluan Gong , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia , Qian Wang

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat for training neural networks as they surreptitiously introduce hidden functionalities into a model. Such backdoors remain silent during inference on clean inputs, evading detection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lukas Struppek , Martin B. Hentschel , Clifton Poth , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Backdoor attacks can cause reinforcement learning (RL) policies to behave normally under clean inputs while executing malicious behaviors when triggers are present. Existing RL backdoor attacks are primarily studied in simulation and often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tairan Huang , Qingqing Ye , Yulin Jin , Jiawei Lian , Yaxin Xiao , Yi Wang , Haibo Hu

Multi-target backdoor attacks pose significant security threats to deep neural networks, as they can preset multiple target classes through a single backdoor injection. This allows attackers to control the model to misclassify poisoned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yangxu Yin , Honglong Chen , Yudong Gao , Peng Sun , Zhishuai Li , Weifeng Liu

Recent works have demonstrated that deep learning models are vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks, where these attacks instill spurious correlations to external trigger patterns or objects (e.g., stickers, sunglasses, etc.). We find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tong Wu , Tianhao Wang , Vikash Sehwag , Saeed Mahloujifar , Prateek Mittal

The financial industry relies on deep learning models for making important decisions. This adoption brings new danger, as deep black-box models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In computer vision, one can shape the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alina Ermilova , Elizaveta Kovtun , Dmitry Berestnev , Alexey Zaytsev

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. The backdoor adversaries intend to maliciously control the predictions of attacked DNNs by injecting hidden backdoors that can be activated by adversary-specified trigger…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Tong Xu , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

Recent studies show that diffusion models (DMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks impose unconcealed triggers (e.g., a gray box and eyeglasses) that contain evident patterns, rendering remarkable attack effects…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yuning Han , Bingyin Zhao , Rui Chu , Feng Luo , Biplab Sikdar , Yingjie Lao

Data-poisoning backdoor attacks are serious security threats to machine learning models, where an adversary can manipulate the training dataset to inject backdoors into models. In this paper, we focus on in-training backdoor defense, aiming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shaokui Wei , Hongyuan Zha , Baoyuan Wu

Machine Learning using neural networks has received prominent attention recently because of its success in solving a wide variety of computational tasks, in particular in the field of computer vision. However, several works have drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 C. A. Martínez-Mejía , J. Solano , J. Breier , D. Bucko , X. Hou

Recently, transformer architecture has demonstrated its significance in both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) tasks. Though other network models are known to be vulnerable to the backdoor attack, which embeds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Peizhuo Lv , Hualong Ma , Jiachen Zhou , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen , Shengzhi Zhang , Yunfei Yang