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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…

Backdoor data poisoning is an emerging form of adversarial attack usually against deep neural network image classifiers. The attacker poisons the training set with a relatively small set of images from one (or several) source class(es),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

LLMs are often used by downstream users as teacher models for knowledge distillation, compressing their capabilities into memory-efficient models. However, as these teacher models may stem from untrusted parties, distillation can raise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Giovanni De Muri , Mark Vero , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

Backdoor attacks threaten Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Towards stealthiness, researchers propose clean-label backdoor attacks, which require the adversaries not to alter the labels of the poisoned training datasets. Clean-label settings…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Nan Luo , Yuanzhang Li , Yajie Wang , Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Quanxin Zhang

Due to the prosperity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, more and more backdoors are designed by adversaries to attack Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).Although the state-of-the-art method Neural Attention Distillation (NAD) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jun Xia , Ting Wang , Jiepin Ding , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

The financial industry relies on deep learning models for making important decisions. This adoption brings new danger, as deep black-box models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In computer vision, one can shape the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alina Ermilova , Elizaveta Kovtun , Dmitry Berestnev , Alexey Zaytsev

Recent studies have proven that deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Specifically, by mixing a small number of poisoned samples into the training set, the behavior of the trained model can be maliciously controlled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Pengfei Xia , Ziqiang Li , Wei Zhang , Bin Li

Replay-based continual learning (CL) methods assume that models trained on a small subset can also effectively minimize the empirical risk of the complete dataset. These methods maintain a memory buffer that stores a sampled subset of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wenyang Liao , Quanziang Wang , Yichen Wu , Renzhen Wang , Deyu Meng

Recently, deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. A backdoor is inserted into neural networks via this attack paradigm, thus compromising the integrity of the network. As soon as an attacker presents a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zonghao Ying , Bin Wu

Dataset Distillation (DD) is a promising technique to synthesize a smaller dataset that preserves essential information from the original dataset. This synthetic dataset can serve as a substitute for the original large-scale one, and help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yao Lu , Jianyang Gu , Xuguang Chen , Saeed Vahidian , Qi Xuan

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable success across numerous tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to Trojan (backdoor) attacks, raising serious concerns about their safety in real-world mission-critical applications. A common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hossein Mirzaei , Zeinab Taghavi , Sepehr Rezaee , Masoud Hadi , Moein Madadi , Mackenzie W. Mathis

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a type of adversarial attack that poisons the training data to manipulate the behavior of models trained on such data. Clean-label attacks are a more stealthy form of backdoor attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Quang H. Nguyen , Nguyen Ngoc-Hieu , The-Anh Ta , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Kok-Seng Wong , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Khoa D. Doan

Deep learning models are well known to be susceptible to backdoor attack, where the attacker only needs to provide a tampered dataset on which the triggers are injected. Models trained on the dataset will passively implant the backdoor, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zonghao Ying , Bin Wu

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has marked significant achievements in language processing and reasoning capabilities. Despite their advancements, LLMs face vulnerabilities to data poisoning attacks, where the adversary inserts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Xiangyu Zhou , Yao Qiang , Saleh Zare Zade , Mohammad Amin Roshani , Prashant Khanduri , Douglas Zytko , Dongxiao Zhu

Dataset distillation aims to distill the knowledge of a large-scale real dataset into small yet informative synthetic data such that a model trained on it performs as well as a model trained on the full dataset. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Lucy Z. Liu , Ehsan Amjadian , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In the exciting generative AI era, the diffusion model has emerged as a very powerful and widely adopted content generation and editing tool for various data modalities, making the study of their potential security risks very necessary and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yang Sui , Huy Phan , Jinqi Xiao , Tianfang Zhang , Zijie Tang , Cong Shi , Yan Wang , Yingying Chen , Bo Yuan

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 recent years, knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone of efficiently deployed machine learning, with labs and industries using knowledge distillation to train models that are inexpensive and resource-optimized. Trojan attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Leonard Tang , Tom Shlomi , Alexander Cai

Offline reinforcement learning often requires a quality dataset that we can train a policy on. However, in many situations, it is not possible to get such a dataset, nor is it easy to train a policy to perform well in the actual environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jonathan Light , Yuanzhe Liu , Ziniu Hu