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Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) have came to rely on vast amounts of training data, providing an opportunity for malicious attackers to exploit and contaminate the data to carry out backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Ziqiang Li , Hong Sun , Pengfei Xia , Heng Li , Beihao Xia , Yi Wu , Bin Li

In this paper we investigate the frequency sensitivity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) when presented with clean samples versus poisoned samples. Our analysis shows significant disparities in frequency sensitivity between these two types of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Bernard Ghanem

While machine learning (ML) models are being increasingly trusted to make decisions in different and varying areas, the safety of systems using such models has become an increasing concern. In particular, ML models are often trained on data…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to both backdoor attacks as well as adversarial attacks. In the literature, these two types of attacks are commonly treated as distinct problems and solved separately, since they belong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Bingxu Mu , Zhenxing Niu , Le Wang , Xue Wang , Rong Jin , Gang Hua

Textual backdoor attacks are a kind of practical threat to NLP systems. By injecting a backdoor in the training phase, the adversary could control model predictions via predefined triggers. As various attack and defense models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Ganqu Cui , Lifan Yuan , Bingxiang He , Yangyi Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Backdoor attacks in reinforcement learning (RL) have previously employed intense attack strategies to ensure attack success. However, these methods suffer from high attack costs and increased detectability. In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jing Cui , Yufei Han , Yuzhe Ma , Jianbin Jiao , Junge Zhang

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to the integrity of text classification models used in natural language processing. While several dirty-label attacks that achieve high attack success rates (ASR) have been proposed, clean-label…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Onur Alp Kirci , M. Emre Gursoy

Backdoor attacks have become a critical threat to deep neural networks (DNNs), drawing many research interests. However, most of the studied attacks employ a single type of trigger. Consequently, proposed backdoor defenders often rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Duc Anh Vu , Anh Tuan Tran , Cong Tran , Cuong Pham

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

In recent years, the security issues of artificial intelligence have become increasingly prominent due to the rapid development of deep learning research and applications. Backdoor attack is an attack targeting the vulnerability of deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Peixin Zhang , Jun Sun , Mingtian Tan , Xinyu Wang

Currently, sample-specific backdoor attacks (SSBAs) are the most advanced and malicious methods since they can easily circumvent most of the current backdoor defenses. In this paper, we reveal that SSBAs are not sufficiently stealthy due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mingyan Zhu , Yiming Li , Junfeng Guo , Tao Wei , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhan Qin

Recent studies revealed that deep learning is susceptible to backdoor poisoning attacks. An adversary can embed a hidden backdoor into a model to manipulate its predictions by only modifying a few training data, without controlling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiangyu Qi , Tinghao Xie , Yiming Li , Saeed Mahloujifar , Prateek Mittal

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a designed trigger is injected into the dataset, causing erroneous predictions when activated. In this paper, we propose a novel defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenjie Huo , Katinka Wolter

Safety-critical applications such as healthcare and autonomous vehicles use deep neural networks (DNN) to make predictions and infer decisions. DNNs are susceptible to evasion attacks, where an adversary crafts a malicious data instance to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mohammed Elnawawy , Gargi Mitra , Shahrear Iqbal , Karthik Pattabiraman

With the widespread use of deep learning system in many applications, the adversary has strong incentive to explore vulnerabilities of deep neural networks and manipulate them. Backdoor attacks against deep neural networks have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Jiazhu Dai , Chuanshuai Chen

Adversarial attacks insert small, imperceptible perturbations to input samples that cause large, undesired changes to the output of deep learning models. Despite extensive research on generating adversarial attacks and building defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

Human language encompasses a wide range of intricate and diverse implicit features, which attackers can exploit to launch adversarial or backdoor attacks, compromising DNN models for NLP tasks. Existing model-oriented defenses often require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yi Jiang , Oubo Ma , Yong Yang , Tong Zhang , Shouling Ji

Backdoor attacks undermine the integrity of machine learning models by allowing attackers to manipulate predictions using poisoned training data. Such attacks lead to targeted misclassification when specific triggers are present, while the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Shaokui Wei , Jiayin Liu , Hongyuan Zha

Backdoor attacks pose a significant security risk to graph learning models. Backdoors can be embedded into the target model by inserting backdoor triggers into the training dataset, causing the model to make incorrect predictions when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zihan Guan , Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu

To promote secure and private artificial intelligence (SPAI), we review studies on the model security and data privacy of DNNs. Model security allows system to behave as intended without being affected by malicious external influences that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Ho Bae , Jaehee Jang , Dahuin Jung , Hyemi Jang , Heonseok Ha , Hyungyu Lee , Sungroh Yoon