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Most of the data manipulation attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) during the training stage introduce a perceptible noise that can be catered by preprocessing during inference or can be identified during the validation phase. Therefore,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Faiq Khalid , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Semeen Rehman , Rehan Ahmed , Muhammad Shafique

Backdoor attacks have been widely studied to hide the misclassification rules in the normal models, which are only activated when the model is aware of the specific inputs (i.e., the trigger). However, despite their success in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Liang Chen , Qibiao Peng , Jintang Li , Yang Liu , Jiawei Chen , Yong Li , Zibin Zheng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to a class of attacks called "backdoor attacks", which create an association between a backdoor trigger and a target label the attacker is interested in exploiting. A backdoored DNN performs well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Shuming Liu , Mohammed Alkhrashi , Fahad AlBalawi , Bernard Ghanem

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries can maliciously trigger model misclassifications by implanting a hidden backdoor during model training. This paper proposes a simple yet effective input-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Linshan Hou , Ruili Feng , Zhongyun Hua , Wei Luo , Leo Yu Zhang , Yiming Li

Deep neural network (DNN) classifiers are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. An adversary poisons some of the training data in such attacks by installing a trigger. The goal is to make the trained DNN output the attacker's desired class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Backdoor attacks have been shown to impose severe threats to real security-critical scenarios. Although previous works can achieve high attack success rates, they either require access to victim models which may significantly reduce their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jingke Zhao , Zan Wang , Yongwei Wang , Lanjun Wang

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

Diffusion models (DMs) are advanced deep learning models that achieved state-of-the-art capability on a wide range of generative tasks. However, recent studies have shown their vulnerability regarding backdoor attacks, in which backdoored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Vu Tuan Truong , Long Bao Le

Transfer learning provides an effective solution for feasibly and fast customize accurate \textit{Student} models, by transferring the learned knowledge of pre-trained \textit{Teacher} models over large datasets via fine-tuning. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler , Shangyu Chen , Tianle Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where malicious functionality is embedded to allow attackers to trigger incorrect classifications. Old-school backdoor attacks use strong trigger features that can easily be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Huming Qiu , Junjie Sun , Mi Zhang , Xudong Pan , Min Yang

Within the realm of computer vision, self-supervised learning (SSL) pertains to training pre-trained image encoders utilizing a substantial quantity of unlabeled images. Pre-trained image encoders can serve as feature extractors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Qiannan Wang , Changchun Yin , Zhe Liu , Liming Fang , Run Wang , Chenhao Lin

Clean-image backdoor attacks, which use only label manipulation in training datasets to compromise deep neural networks, pose a significant threat to security-critical applications. A critical flaw in existing methods is that the poison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Binyan Xu , Fan Yang , Di Tang , Xilin Dai , Kehuan Zhang

Although Deep Neural Network (DNN) has led to unprecedented progress in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, research shows that deep models are extremely vulnerable to backdoor attacks. The existing backdoor attacks mainly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xiaoyi Chen , Yinpeng Dong , Zeyu Sun , Shengfang Zhai , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu

Pervasive backdoors are triggered by dynamic and pervasive input perturbations. They can be intentionally injected by attackers or naturally exist in normally trained models. They have a different nature from the traditional static and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guanhong Tao , Yingqi Liu , Siyuan Cheng , Shengwei An , Zhuo Zhang , Qiuling Xu , Guangyu Shen , Xiangyu Zhang

Image anomaly detection (IAD) is essential in applications such as industrial inspection, medical imaging, and security. Despite the progress achieved with deep learning models like Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection (DeepSAD), these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 He Cheng , Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan

Transforming off-the-shelf deep neural network (DNN) models into dynamic multi-exit architectures can achieve inference and transmission efficiency by fragmenting and distributing a large DNN model in edge computing scenarios (e.g., edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tian Dong , Ziyuan Zhang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Hewu Li , Terry Wang

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

Intuitively, a backdoor attack against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is to inject hidden malicious behaviors into DNNs such that the backdoor model behaves legitimately for benign inputs, yet invokes a predefined malicious behavior when its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shaofeng Li , Shiqing Ma , Minhui Xue , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao

We investigate a new method for injecting backdoors into machine learning models, based on compromising the loss-value computation in the model-training code. We use it to demonstrate new classes of backdoors strictly more powerful than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Among the existing backdoor defense methods, trigger reverse engineering based approaches, which reconstruct the backdoor triggers via optimizations, are the most versatile and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Beichen Li , Yuanfang Guo , Heqi Peng , Yangxi Li , Yunhong Wang