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Machine Learning (ML) has automated a multitude of our day-to-day decision making domains such as education, employment and driving automation. The continued success of ML largely depends on our ability to trust the model we are using.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Sakshi Udeshi , Shanshan Peng , Gerald Woo , Lionell Loh , Louth Rawshan , Sudipta Chattopadhyay

Backdoors pose a serious threat to machine learning, as they can compromise the integrity of security-critical systems, such as self-driving cars. While different defenses have been proposed to address this threat, they all rely on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Alexander Warnecke , Julian Speith , Jan-Niklas Möller , Konrad Rieck , Christof Paar

Backdoor attacks are a significant threat to the performance and integrity of pre-trained language models. Although such models are routinely fine-tuned for downstream NLP tasks, recent work shows they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Santosh Chapagain , Shah Muhammad Hamdi , Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi

Code models, such as CodeBERT and CodeT5, offer general-purpose representations of code and play a vital role in supporting downstream automated software engineering tasks. Most recently, code models were revealed to be vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Zhou Yang , Bowen Xu , Jie M. Zhang , Hong Jin Kang , Jieke Shi , Junda He , David Lo

Recent studies have demonstrated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks during the training process. Specifically, the adversaries intend to embed hidden backdoors in DNNs so that malicious model predictions can…

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

Recent deep-learning-based compression methods have achieved superior performance compared with traditional approaches. However, deep learning models have proven to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where some specific trigger patterns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Multimodal pretrained models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, yet most existing methods rely on visual or multimodal triggers, which are impractical since visually embedded triggers rarely occur in real-world data. To overcome this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yiyang Zhang , Chaojian Yu , Ziming Hong , Yuanjie Shao , Qinmu Peng , Tongliang Liu , Xinge You

Machine unlearning, a process enabling pre-trained models to remove the influence of specific training samples, has attracted significant attention in recent years. While extensive research has focused on developing efficient unlearning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to deep learning models by allowing adversaries to implant hidden behaviors that remain dormant on clean inputs but are maliciously triggered at inference. Existing backdoor attack methods typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lijie Hu , Junchi Liao , Weimin Lyu , Shaopeng Fu , Tianhao Huang , Shu Yang , Guimin Hu , Di Wang

Backdoor attacks pose a significant security risk to graph learning models. Backdoors can be embedded into the target model by inserting backdoor triggers into the training dataset, causing the model to make incorrect predictions when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zihan Guan , Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu

The introduction of robust optimisation has pushed the state-of-the-art in defending against adversarial attacks. Notably, the state-of-the-art projected gradient descent (PGD)-based training method has been shown to be universally and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ezekiel Soremekun , Sakshi Udeshi , Sudipta Chattopadhyay

Backdoor attacks have been widely studied to hide the misclassification rules in the normal models, which are only activated when the model is aware of the specific inputs (i.e., the trigger). However, despite their success in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Liang Chen , Qibiao Peng , Jintang Li , Yang Liu , Jiawei Chen , Yong Li , Zibin Zheng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown unprecedented success in object detection tasks. However, it was also discovered that DNNs are vulnerable to multiple kinds of attacks, including Backdoor Attacks. Through the attack, the attacker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yize Cheng , Wenbin Hu , Minhao Cheng

Here, we show that current LLM unlearning methods inherently reduce models' robustness, causing them to misbehave even when a single non-adversarial forget-token is present in the retain-query. Toward understanding underlying causes, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dang Huu-Tien , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Anh Bui , Minh-Phuong Nguyen , Le-Minh Nguyen , Naoya Inoue

Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly through instruction tuning, which enables broad task generalization without additional fine-tuning. However, their reliance on large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 San Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden features (patterns) trained to a normal model, which is only activated by some specific input (called triggers), trick the model into producing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shaofeng Li , Minhui Xue , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Haojin Zhu , Xinpeng Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made tremendous progress in the past ten years and have been applied in various critical applications. However, recent studies have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xinrui Liu , Yajie Wang , Yu-an Tan , Kefan Qiu , Yuanzhang Li

In autonomous driving, behavior prediction is fundamental for safe motion planning, hence the security and robustness of prediction models against adversarial attacks are of paramount importance. We propose a novel adversarial backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz , Mohammad Sabokrou , Amir Rasouli

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various applications; however, their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses severe security risks -- especially in situations where only a limited set of clean samples is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Nay Myat Min , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

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