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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

The success of deep learning has enabled advances in multimodal tasks that require non-trivial fusion of multiple input domains. Although multimodal models have shown potential in many problems, their increased complexity makes them more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Matthew Walmer , Karan Sikka , Indranil Sur , Abhinav Shrivastava , Susmit Jha

As the curation of data for machine learning becomes increasingly automated, dataset tampering is a mounting threat. Backdoor attackers tamper with training data to embed a vulnerability in models that are trained on that data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hossein Souri , Liam Fowl , Rama Chellappa , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Recent studies have revealed a security threat to natural language processing (NLP) models, called the Backdoor Attack. Victim models can maintain competitive performance on clean samples while behaving abnormally on samples with a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wenkai Yang , Lei Li , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun , Bin He

Non-Intrusive speech quality assessment (NISQA) has gained significant attention for predicting speech's mean opinion score (MOS) without requiring the reference speech. Researchers have gradually started to apply NISQA to various practical…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ying Ren , Kailai Shen , Zhe Ye , Diqun Yan

Backdoors are hidden behaviors that are only triggered once an AI system has been deployed. Bad actors looking to create successful backdoors must design them to avoid activation during training and evaluation. Since data used in these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Sara Price , Arjun Panickssery , Sam Bowman , Asa Cooper Stickland

Backdoor attack intends to inject hidden backdoor into the deep neural networks (DNNs), such that the prediction of infected models will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by the attacker-defined trigger. Currently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yiming Li , Tongqing Zhai , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

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 studies revealed that deep neural networks (DNNs) are exposed to backdoor threats when training with third-party resources (such as training samples or backbones). The backdoored model has promising performance in predicting benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chengxiao Luo , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Recent studies have revealed that \textit{Backdoor Attacks} can threaten the safety of natural language processing (NLP) models. Investigating the strategies of backdoor attacks will help to understand the model's vulnerability. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Weimin Lyu , Songzhu Zheng , Lu Pang , Haibin Ling , Chao Chen

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

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

Federated learning allows multiple participants to collaboratively train a central model without sharing their private data. However, this distributed nature also exposes new attack surfaces. In particular, backdoor attacks allow attackers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang , Cong Tian , Yaochu Jin

Backdoor attacks for neural code models have gained considerable attention due to the advancement of code intelligence. However, most existing works insert triggers into task-specific data for code-related downstream tasks, thereby limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yanzhou Li , Shangqing Liu , Kangjie Chen , Xiaofei Xie , Tianwei Zhang , Yang Liu

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

Backdoor attacks mislead machine-learning models to output an attacker-specified class when presented a specific trigger at test time. These attacks require poisoning the training data to compromise the learning algorithm, e.g., by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Kathrin Grosse , Taesung Lee , Battista Biggio , Youngja Park , Michael Backes , Ian Molloy

Skill-based agent systems tackle complex tasks by composing reusable skills, improving modularity and scalability while introducing a largely unexamined security attack surface. We propose SkillTrojan, a backdoor attack that targets skill…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yunhao Feng , Yifan Ding , Yingshui Tan , Boren Zheng , Yanming Guo , Xiaolong Li , Kun Zhai , Yishan Li , Wenke Huang

Backdoor data poisoning attacks have recently been demonstrated in computer vision research as a potential safety risk for machine learning (ML) systems. Traditional data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to induce unreliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Loc Truong , Chace Jones , Brian Hutchinson , Andrew August , Brenda Praggastis , Robert Jasper , Nicole Nichols , Aaron Tuor

Machine learning (ML) models that use deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Such attacks involve the insertion of a (hidden) trigger by an adversary. As a consequence, any input that contains the trigger will cause the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Arezoo Rajabi , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Radha Poovendran

Outsourced deep neural networks have been demonstrated to suffer from patch-based trojan attacks, in which an adversary poisons the training sets to inject a backdoor in the obtained model so that regular inputs can be still labeled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ying He , Zhili Shen , Chang Xia , Jingyu Hua , Wei Tong , Sheng Zhong