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Systematic techniques to improve quality of deep neural networks (DNNs) are critical given the increasing demand for practical applications including safety-critical ones. The key challenge comes from the little controllability in updating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Shogo Tokui , Susumu Tokumoto , Akihito Yoshii , Fuyuki Ishikawa , Takao Nakagawa , Kazuki Munakata , Shinji Kikuchi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known vulnerable to adversarial attacks. That is, adversarial examples, obtained by adding delicately crafted distortions onto original legal inputs, can mislead a DNN to classify them as any target labels.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Siyue Wang , Xiao Wang , Pu Zhao , Wujie Wen , David Kaeli , Peter Chin , Xue Lin

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

The success of a deep neural network (DNN) heavily relies on the details of the training scheme; e.g., training data, architectures, hyper-parameters, etc. Recent backdoor attacks suggest that an adversary can take advantage of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Nazmul Karim , Abdullah Al Arafat , Umar Khalid , Zhishan Guo , Naznin Rahnavard

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated effectiveness in various fields. However, DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which inject a unique pattern, called trigger, into the input to cause misclassification to an attack-chosen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Siyuan Cheng , Guangyu Shen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Shengwei An , Hanxi Guo , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

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

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have had a dramatic impact on a variety of problems that were long considered very difficult, e. g., image classification and automatic language translation to name just a few. The accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yannik Potdevin , Dirk Nowotka , Vijay Ganesh

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), so that the attacked models perform well on benign samples, whereas their predictions will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

Backdoor attacks have been one of the emerging security threats to deep neural networks (DNNs), leading to serious consequences. One of the mainstream backdoor defenses is model reconstruction-based. Such defenses adopt model unlearning or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yufei Zhao , Dingji Wang , Bihuan Chen , Ziqian Chen , Xin Peng

Together with impressive advances touching every aspect of our society, AI technology based on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) is bringing increasing security concerns. While attacks operating at test time have monopolised the initial attention…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Wei Guo , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) usually requires massive training data and computational resources. Users who cannot afford this may prefer to outsource training to a third party or resort to publicly available pre-trained models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Yiming Li

Deep neural network (DNN) predictions have been shown to be vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial perturbations. Specifically, image-agnostic (universal adversarial) perturbations added to any image can fool a target network into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Tejas Borkar , Felix Heide , Lina Karam

As backdoor attacks become more stealthy and robust, they reveal critical weaknesses in current defense strategies: detection methods often rely on coarse-grained feature statistics, and purification methods typically require full…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Man Hu , Yahui Ding , Yatao Yang , Liangyu Chen , Yanhao Jia , Shuai Zhao

Backdoor defenses have recently become important in resisting backdoor attacks in deep neural networks (DNNs), where attackers implant backdoors into the DNN model by injecting backdoor samples into the training dataset. Although there are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xinfu Li , Junying Zhang , Xindi Ma

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including evasion and backdoor (poisoning) attacks. On the defense side, there have been intensive efforts on improving both empirical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Maurice Weber , Xiaojun Xu , Bojan Karlaš , Ce Zhang , Bo Li

We have witnessed the continuing arms race between backdoor attacks and the corresponding defense strategies on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Most state-of-the-art defenses rely on the statistical sanitization of the "inputs" or "latent DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Hassan Ali , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere , Sanjay Jha

Backdoor (Trojan) attacks are emerging threats against deep neural networks (DNN). A DNN being attacked will predict to an attacker-desired target class whenever a test sample from any source class is embedded with a backdoor pattern; while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Xi Li , Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. In Natural Language Processing (NLP), DNNs are often backdoored during the fine-tuning process of a large-scale Pre-trained Language Model (PLM) with poisoned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhiyuan Zhang , Lingjuan Lyu , Xingjun Ma , Chenguang Wang , Xu Sun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have long been recognized as vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By providing poisoned training data in the fine-tuning process, the attacker can implant a backdoor into the victim model. This enables input samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Abdullah Arafat Miah , Yu Bi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks such as image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can cause incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Suklav Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Arijit Sur