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The widespread adoption of deep learning across various industries has introduced substantial challenges, particularly in terms of model explainability and security. The inherent complexity of deep learning models, while contributing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

Recently, deep learning-based Image-to-Image (I2I) networks have become the predominant choice for I2I tasks such as image super-resolution and denoising. Despite their remarkable performance, the backdoor vulnerability of I2I networks has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Wenbo Jiang , Hongwei Li , Jiaming He , Rui Zhang , Guowen Xu , Tianwei Zhang , Rongxing Lu

Backdoor attacks have become a major security threat for deploying machine learning models in security-critical applications. Existing research endeavors have proposed many defenses against backdoor attacks. Despite demonstrating certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Hengzhi Pei , Jinyuan Jia , Wenbo Guo , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat for training neural networks as they surreptitiously introduce hidden functionalities into a model. Such backdoors remain silent during inference on clean inputs, evading detection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lukas Struppek , Martin B. Hentschel , Clifton Poth , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Text-to-Image (T2I) models, represented by DALL$\cdot$E and Midjourney, have gained huge popularity for creating realistic images. The quality of these images relies on the carefully engineered prompts, which have become valuable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Shiqian Zhao , Chong Wang , Yiming Li , Yihao Huang , Wenjie Qu , Siew-Kei Lam , Yi Xie , Kangjie Chen , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang

Diffusion models have been widely deployed in AIGC services; however, their reliance on opaque training data and procedures exposes a broad attack surface for backdoor injection. In practical auditing scenarios, due to the protection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Bingzheng Wang , Xiaoyan Gu , Hongbo Xu , Hongcheng Li , Zimo Yu , Jiang Zhou , Weiping Wang

Textual backdoor attack, as a novel attack model, has been shown to be effective in adding a backdoor to the model during training. Defending against such backdoor attacks has become urgent and important. In this paper, we propose AttDef,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jiazhao Li , Zhuofeng Wu , Wei Ping , Chaowei Xiao , V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran

The growing demand for customized visual content has led to the rise of personalized text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models. Despite their remarkable potential, they pose significant privacy risk when misused for malicious purposes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xide Xu , Muhammad Atif Butt , Sandesh Kamath , Bogdan Raducanu

Text-to-image synthesis has made significant progress, benefiting from the strong generative capabilities of diffusion models. However, these models struggle to achieve precise text-to-image alignment within cross-attention maps during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shipeng Cao , Biao Qian , Haipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

Diffusion models are state-of-the-art deep learning empowered generative models that are trained based on the principle of learning forward and reverse diffusion processes via progressive noise-addition and denoising. To gain a better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Sheng-Yen Chou , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

Deep Learning backdoor attacks have a threat model similar to traditional cyber attacks. Attack forensics, a critical counter-measure for traditional cyber attacks, is hence of importance for defending model backdoor attacks. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Siyuan Cheng , Guanhong Tao , Yingqi Liu , Shengwei An , Xiangzhe Xu , Shiwei Feng , Guangyu Shen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Qiuling Xu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative frameworks, excelling in producing high-quality multi-modal samples. However, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks, where backdoored models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Vu Tuan Truong , Long Bao Le

Recent researches show that deep learning model is susceptible to backdoor attacks. Many defenses against backdoor attacks have been proposed. However, existing defense works require high computational overhead or backdoor attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingfu Xue , Yinghao Wu , Zhiyu Wu , Yushu Zhang , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Diffusion models (DM) have become state-of-the-art generative models because of their capability to generate high-quality images from noises without adversarial training. However, they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks as reported by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shengwei An , Sheng-Yen Chou , Kaiyuan Zhang , Qiuling Xu , Guanhong Tao , Guangyu Shen , Siyuan Cheng , Shiqing Ma , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Xiangyu Zhang

Studying backdoor attacks is valuable for model copyright protection and enhancing defenses. While existing backdoor attacks have successfully infected multimodal contrastive learning models such as CLIP, they can be easily countered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Siyuan Liang , Mingli Zhu , Aishan Liu , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaochun Cao , Ee-Chien Chang

Diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models enable high-quality image generation but also pose significant risks of misuse, particularly in producing not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content. While prior detection methods have focused on filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Fan Yang , Yihao Huang , Jiayi Zhu , Ling Shi , Geguang Pu , Jin Song Dong , Kailong Wang

As text-to-image (T2I) models advance and gain widespread adoption, their associated safety concerns are becoming increasingly critical. Malicious users exploit these models to generate Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images using harmful or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yiming Wang , Jiahao Chen , Qingming Li , Tong Zhang , Rui Zeng , Xing Yang , Shouling Ji

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have raised security concerns due to their potential to generate inappropriate or harmful images. In this paper, we propose UPAM, a novel framework that investigates the robustness of T2I models from the attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Duo Peng , Qiuhong Ke , Jun Liu

Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly developed through open-source reuse and repeated downstream fine-tuning, where reused checkpoints are difficult to verify and thus more susceptible to hidden backdoor behaviors. In such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kai Wang , Jiale Zhang , Chengcheng Zhu , Chuang Ma , Songze Li

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has advanced rapidly in recent years, but they also raise safety concerns due to the potential production of harmful content. In the practical deployments, T2I services typically adopt full-chain defenses that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiangtao Liu , Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang , Cong Tian , Yaochu Jin