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Clinical trials are indispensable in developing new treatments, but they face obstacles in patient recruitment and retention, hindering the enrollment of necessary participants. To tackle these challenges, deep learning frameworks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Chia-Yuan Chang , Jiayi Yuan , Sirui Ding , Qiaoyu Tan , Kai Zhang , Xiaoqian Jiang , Xia Hu , Na Zou

Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers are known to be vulnerable to Trojan or backdoor attacks, where the classifier is manipulated such that it misclassifies any input containing an attacker-determined Trojan trigger. Backdoors compromise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ahmadreza Azizi , Ibrahim Asadullah Tahmid , Asim Waheed , Neal Mangaokar , Jiameng Pu , Mobin Javed , Chandan K. Reddy , Bimal Viswanath

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in automated disease classification significantly reduces healthcare costs and improves the accessibility of services. However, this transformation has given rise to concerns about the fairness of AI,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Leila Gheisi , Henry Chu , Raju Gottumukkala , Yan Luo , Xingquan Zhu , Mengyu Wang , Min Shi

Neural networks can conceal malicious Trojan backdoors that allow a trigger to covertly change the model behavior. Detecting signs of these backdoors, particularly without access to any triggered data, is the subject of ongoing research and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Todd Huster , Peter Lin , Razvan Stefanescu , Emmanuel Ekwedike , Ritu Chadha

Adversarial attacks refer to a set of methods that perturb the input to a classification model in order to fool the classifier. In this paper we apply different gradient based adversarial attack algorithms on five deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Vinod Subramanian , Emmanouil Benetos , Ning Xu , SKoT McDonald , Mark Sandler

In this paper, we introduce the TrojAI software framework, an open source set of Python tools capable of generating triggered (poisoned) datasets and associated deep learning (DL) models with trojans at scale. We utilize the developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Kiran Karra , Chace Ashcraft , Neil Fendley

Fairness and accountability are two essential pillars for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. However, the existing AI model may be biased in its decision marking. To tackle this issue, we propose an adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xiaoxiao Li , Ziteng Cui , Yifan Wu , Lin Gu , Tatsuya Harada

Deep Learning (DL) has become a key technology that assists radio frequency (RF) signal classification applications, such as modulation classification. However, the DL models are vulnerable to adversarial machine learning threats, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Younes Salmi , Hanna Bogucka

Medical decision systems increasingly rely on data from multiple sources to ensure reliable and unbiased diagnosis. However, existing multimodal learning models fail to achieve this goal because they often ignore two critical challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Md Zubair , Hao Zheng , Nussdorf Jonathan , Grayson W. Armstrong , Lucy Q. Shen , Gabriela Wilson , Yu Tian , Xingquan Zhu , Min Shi

Fair classification has become an important topic in machine learning research. While most bias mitigation strategies focus on neural networks, we noticed a lack of work on fair classifiers based on decision trees even though they have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Vincent Grari , Boris Ruf , Sylvain Lamprier , Marcin Detyniecki

Deep neural networks are being widely deployed for many critical tasks due to their high classification accuracy. In many cases, pre-trained models are sourced from vendors who may have disrupted the training pipeline to insert Trojan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Xiaoyu Zhang , Ajmal Mian , Rohit Gupta , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

Backdoor (trojan) attacks embed hidden, controllable behaviors into machine-learning models so that models behave normally on benign inputs but produce attacker-chosen outputs when a trigger is present. This survey reviews the rapidly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Zhang , Shang Gao

Time Series Classification (TSC) is highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing significant security threats. Existing methods primarily focus on data poisoning during the training phase, designing sophisticated triggers to improve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chang Dong , Zechao Sun , Guangdong Bai , Shuying Piao , Weitong Chen , Wei Emma Zhang

We target the problem of detecting Trojans or backdoors in DNNs. Such models behave normally with typical inputs but produce specific incorrect predictions for inputs poisoned with a Trojan trigger. Our approach is based on a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Karan Sikka , Indranil Sur , Susmit Jha , Anirban Roy , Ajay Divakaran

The lack of bias management in Recommender Systems leads to minority groups receiving unfair recommendations. Moreover, the trade-off between equity and precision makes it difficult to obtain recommendations that meet both criteria. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jesús Bobadilla , Raúl Lara-Cabrera , Ángel González-Prieto , Fernando Ortega

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to Trojan (or backdoor) attacks. Reverse-engineering methods can reconstruct the trigger and thus identify affected models. Existing reverse-engineering methods only consider input space constraints,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenting Wang , Kai Mei , Hailun Ding , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Model fairness is an essential element for Trustworthy AI. While many techniques for model fairness have been proposed, most of them assume that the training and deployment data distributions are identical, which is often not true in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuji Roh , Kangwook Lee , Steven Euijong Whang , Changho Suh

Large Language Models (LLMs) are progressively being utilized as machine learning services and interface tools for various applications. However, the security implications of LLMs, particularly in relation to adversarial and Trojan attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Ting Hua , Yilin Shen , Yepeng Liu , Ladislau Boloni , Qian Lou

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly those based on deep learning models, have increasingly achieved expert-level performance in medical applications. However, there is growing concern that such AI systems may reflect and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiuying Chen , Tairan Wang , Juexiao Zhou , Zirui Song , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become integral to computing infrastructure, safety alignment serves as the primary security control preventing the generation of harmful payloads. However, this defense remains brittle. Existing jailbreak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long , Kwok Yan Lam