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Recently, it has been shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to Trojan attacks, where an attacker can install a backdoor during training time to make the resultant model misidentify samples contaminated with a small trigger patch.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Haripriya Harikumar , Vuong Le , Santu Rana , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

Data-poisoning based backdoor attacks aim to insert backdoor into models by manipulating training datasets without controlling the training process of the target model. Existing attack methods mainly focus on designing triggers or fusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Zihao Zhu , Mingda Zhang , Shaokui Wei , Li Shen , Yanbo Fan , Baoyuan Wu

Machine unlearning has emerged as a key component in ensuring ``Right to be Forgotten'', enabling the removal of specific data points from trained models. However, even when the unlearning is performed without poisoning the forget-set…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Marco Arazzi , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers embed hidden backdoors in the DNN model by injecting a few poisoned examples into the training dataset. While extensive efforts have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Zhicai Wang , Zepu Lu , Qingyong Hu

The advent of multimodal deep learning models, such as CLIP, has unlocked new frontiers in a wide range of applications, from image-text understanding to classification tasks. However, these models are not safe for adversarial attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Md. Iqbal Hossain , Afia Sajeeda , Neeresh Kumar Perla , Ming Shao

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are growing larger, their requirements for computational resources become huge, which makes outsourcing training more popular. Training in a third-party platform, however, may introduce potential risks that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Dongxian Wu , Yisen Wang

In a backdoor attack, an adversary inserts maliciously constructed backdoor examples into a training set to make the resulting model vulnerable to manipulation. Defending against such attacks typically involves viewing these inserted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Alaa Khaddaj , Guillaume Leclerc , Aleksandar Makelov , Kristian Georgiev , Hadi Salman , Andrew Ilyas , Aleksander Madry

Classifiers such as deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial perturbations on problems with high-dimensional input space. While adversarial training improves the robustness of image classifiers against such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Thomas Brox , Jan Hendrik Metzen

Quantum adversarial machine learning is an emerging field that studies the vulnerability of quantum learning systems against adversarial perturbations and develops possible defense strategies. Quantum universal adversarial perturbations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Yun-Zhong Qiu

Backdoor attacks are rapidly emerging threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). In the backdoor attack scenario, attackers usually implant the backdoor into the target model by manipulating the training dataset or training process. Then, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nan Zhong , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

In recent years, the rise of machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity has brought new challenges, including the increasing threat of backdoor poisoning attacks on ML malware classifiers. For instance, adversaries could inject malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dung Thuy Nguyen , Ngoc N. Tran , Taylor T. Johnson , Kevin Leach

Backdoor attacks, which maliciously control a well-trained model's outputs of the instances with specific triggers, are recently shown to be serious threats to the safety of reusing deep neural networks (DNNs). In this work, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Wenkai Yang , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have made rapid progress in recent years, they are vulnerable in adversarial environments. A malicious backdoor could be embedded in a model by poisoning the training dataset, whose intention is to make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Zhijie Deng , Tianyu Pang , Zihao Xiao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep learning models are widely employed in safety-critical applications yet remain susceptible to adversarial attacks -- imperceptible perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. Conventional defense mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Eylon Mizrahi , Raz Lapid , Moshe Sipper

The introduction of robust optimisation has pushed the state-of-the-art in defending against adversarial attacks. Notably, the state-of-the-art projected gradient descent (PGD)-based training method has been shown to be universally and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ezekiel Soremekun , Sakshi Udeshi , Sudipta Chattopadhyay

The use of unvetted third-party and internet data renders pre-trained models susceptible to backdoor attacks. Detecting backdoor samples is critical to prevent backdoor activation during inference or injection during training. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zuquan Peng , Jianming Fu , Lixin Zou , Li Zheng , Yanzhen Ren , Guojun Peng

Detecting adversarial samples that are carefully crafted to fool the model is a critical step to socially-secure applications. However, existing adversarial detection methods require access to sufficient training data, which brings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Songyang Gao , Shihan Dou , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Jin Ma , Ying Shan

Universal Adversarial Perturbations are image-agnostic and model-independent noise that when added with any image can mislead the trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks into the wrong prediction. Since these Universal Adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Mehdi Sadi , B. M. S. Bahar Talukder , Kaniz Mishty , Md Tauhidur Rahman

Backdoor injection attack is an emerging threat to the security of neural networks, however, there still exist limited effective defense methods against the attack. In this paper, we propose BAERASE, a novel method that can erase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yang Liu , Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Ximeng Liu , Zhuo Ma , Li Wang , Jianfeng Ma

Backdoor attack has emerged as a novel and concerning threat to AI security. These attacks involve the training of Deep Neural Network (DNN) on datasets that contain hidden trigger patterns. Although the poisoned model behaves normally on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Huasong Zhou , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaodong Wang , Leon Bevan Bullock