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It has been widely observed that deep neural networks (DNN) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks where attackers could manipulate the model behavior maliciously by tampering with a small set of training samples. Although a line of defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Rui Min , Zeyu Qin , Li Shen , Minhao Cheng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various fields. However, the large number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) in DNNs poses challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained applications, e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mengnan Jiang , Jingcun Wang , Amro Eldebiky , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ing-Chao Lin , Grace Li Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown great promise in various domains. However, vulnerabilities associated with DNN training, such as backdoor attacks, are a significant concern. These attacks involve the subtle insertion of triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Bart Pleiter , Behrad Tajalli , Stefanos Koffas , Gorka Abad , Jing Xu , Martha Larson , Stjepan Picek

Machine learning (ML) has made tremendous progress during the past decade and is being adopted in various critical real-world applications. However, recent research has shown that ML models are vulnerable to multiple security and privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Ahmed Salem , Rui Wen , Michael Backes , Shiqing Ma , Yang Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have found extensive applications in safety-critical artificial intelligence systems, such as autonomous driving and facial recognition systems. However, recent research has revealed their susceptibility to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lingxin Jin , Xianyu Wen , Wei Jiang , Jinyu Zhan

This paper presents a survey of methods for pruning deep neural networks. It begins by categorising over 150 studies based on the underlying approach used and then focuses on three categories: methods that use magnitude based pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Sunil Vadera , Salem Ameen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning models capable of processing graph-structured data, and they have demonstrated significant performance in a variety of real-world applications. Recent studies have found that GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jiazhu Dai , Haoyu Sun

Deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications, especially in natural language processing (NLP). Users often choose training outsourcing or adopt third-party data and models due to data and computation resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xuan Sheng , Zhaoyang Han , Piji Li , Xiangmao Chang

A security threat to deep neural networks (DNN) is backdoor contamination, in which an adversary poisons the training data of a target model to inject a Trojan so that images carrying a specific trigger will always be classified into a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Di Tang , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Kehuan Zhang

It is well known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are implemented by adding crafted perturbations onto benign examples. Min-max robust optimization based adversarial training can provide a notion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Shaokai Ye , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Jan-Henrik Lambrechts , Huan Zhang , Aojun Zhou , Kaisheng Ma , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks (Trojans), where an attacker poisons the training set with backdoor triggers so that the neural network learns to classify test-time triggers to the attacker's designated target class.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Hang Wang , Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used by engineers to solve difficult problems that require predictive modeling from data. However, these models are often massive, with millions or billions of parameters, and require substantial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Federico Formica , Andrea Rota , Aurora Francesca Zanenga , Andrea Bombarda , Mark Lawford , Lionel C. Briand , Claudio Menghi

Motivated by the transformative impact of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various domains, researchers and anti-virus vendors have proposed DNNs for malware detection from raw bytes that do not require manual feature engineering. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Keane Lucas , Mahmood Sharif , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter , Saurabh Shintre

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown great success in many computer vision applications. However, they are also known to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. When conducting backdoor attacks, most of the existing approaches assume that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Haoliang Li , Yufei Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Shiqi Wang , Renjie Wan , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to have a fundamental sensitivity to adversarial attacks, perturbations of the input that are imperceptible to humans yet powerful enough to change the visual decision of a model. Adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Drew Linsley , Pinyuan Feng , Thibaut Boissin , Alekh Karkada Ashok , Thomas Fel , Stephanie Olaiya , Thomas Serre

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hichem Sahbi

One major goal of the AI security community is to securely and reliably produce and deploy deep learning models for real-world applications. To this end, data poisoning based backdoor attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) in the production…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Xiangyu Qi , Tinghao Xie , Ruizhe Pan , Jifeng Zhu , Yong Yang , Kai Bu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where an attacker manipulates a small portion of the training data to implant hidden backdoors into the model. The compromised model behaves normally on clean samples but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ting Qiao , Yingjia Wang , Xing Liu , Sixing Wu , Jianbin Li , Yiming Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to a class of attacks called "backdoor attacks", which create an association between a backdoor trigger and a target label the attacker is interested in exploiting. A backdoored DNN performs well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Shuming Liu , Mohammed Alkhrashi , Fahad AlBalawi , Bernard Ghanem

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, such as backdoor attacks in which a malicious adversary compromises a model during training such that specific behaviour can be triggered at test time by attaching a specific word…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 You Guo , Jun Wang , Trevor Cohn