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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning approach where the data itself provides supervision, eliminating the need for external labels. The model is forced to learn about the data structure or context by solving a pretext task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Markus Marks , Manuel Knott , Neehar Kondapaneni , Elijah Cole , Thijs Defraeye , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Pietro Perona

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into software development workflows, they also become prime targets for adversarial attacks. Among these, backdoor attacks are a significant threat, allowing attackers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Quoc Hung Le , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Bowen Xu

Contrastive learning pre-trains an image encoder using a large amount of unlabeled data such that the image encoder can be used as a general-purpose feature extractor for various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose PoisonedEncoder, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Hongbin Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Deep learning has become an increasingly popular and powerful methodology for modern pattern recognition systems. However, many deep neural networks have millions or billions of parameters, making them untenable for real-world applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Manoj Alwani , Yang Wang , Vashisht Madhavan

Federated learning enables thousands of participants to construct a deep learning model without sharing their private training data with each other. For example, multiple smartphones can jointly train a next-word predictor for keyboards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Andreas Veit , Yiqing Hua , Deborah Estrin , Vitaly Shmatikov

Deep learning has enabled remarkable progress in binary code analysis. In particular, pre-trained embeddings of assembly code have become a gold standard for solving analysis tasks, such as measuring code similarity or recognizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Alwin Maier , Felix Weissberg , Konrad Rieck

This is Btech thesis report on detection and purification of adverserially attacked images. A deep learning model is trained on certain training examples for various tasks such as classification, regression etc. By training, weights are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dvij Kalaria

It is common practice to outsource the training of machine learning models to cloud providers. Clients who do so gain from the cloud's economies of scale, but implicitly assume trust: the server should not deviate from the client's training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Hengrui Jia , Sierra Wyllie , Akram Bin Sediq , Ahmed Ibrahim , Nicolas Papernot

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

Backdoor attack has emerged as a major security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). While existing defense methods have demonstrated promising results on detecting or erasing backdoors, it is still not clear whether robust training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yige Li , Xixiang Lyu , Nodens Koren , Lingjuan Lyu , Bo Li , Xingjun Ma

Bias in classifiers is a severe issue of modern deep learning methods, especially for their application in safety- and security-critical areas. Often, the bias of a classifier is a direct consequence of a bias in the training dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Christian Reimers , Paul Bodesheim , Jakob Runge , Joachim Denzler

Verifying whether the machine unlearning process has been properly executed is critical but remains underexplored. Some existing approaches propose unlearning verification methods based on backdooring techniques. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Weiqi Wang , Zhiyi Tian , Chenhan Zhang , Luoyu Chen , Shui Yu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming widespread, particularly in safety-critical areas. One prominent application is image recognition in autonomous driving, where the correct classification of objects, such as traffic signs, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Akshay Dhonthi , Marcello Eiermann , Ernst Moritz Hahn , Vahid Hashemi

In this paper, we study the problem of semi-supervised image recognition, which is to learn classifiers using both labeled and unlabeled images. We present Deep Co-Training, a deep learning based method inspired by the Co-Training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Siyuan Qiao , Wei Shen , Zhishuai Zhang , Bo Wang , Alan Yuille

When an object detector is deployed in a novel setting it often experiences a drop in performance. This paper studies how an embodied agent can automatically fine-tune a pre-existing object detector while exploring and acquiring images in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Gianluca Scarpellini , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Lorenzo Natale , Alessio Del Bue

We investigate the utility of in-domain self-supervised pre-training of vision models in the analysis of remote sensing imagery. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for remote sensing image classification due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ivica Dimitrovski , Ivan Kitanovski , Nikola Simidjievski , Dragi Kocev

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Siyuan Cheng , Yingqi Liu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Unsupervised learning poses one of the most difficult challenges in computer vision today. The task has an immense practical value with many applications in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, as large quantities of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ioana Croitoru , Simion-Vlad Bogolin , Marius Leordeanu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to a range of adversaries. A particularly pernicious class of vulnerabilities are backdoors, where model predictions diverge in the presence of subtle triggers in inputs. An attacker can implant a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Goutham Ramakrishnan , Aws Albarghouthi

Backdoor attacks have severely threatened deep neural network (DNN) models in the past several years. These attacks can occur in almost every stage of the deep learning pipeline. Although the attacked model behaves normally on benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yangming Chen