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Back-door attack poses a severe threat to deep learning systems. It injects hidden malicious behaviors to a model such that any input stamped with a special pattern can trigger such behaviors. Detecting back-door is hence of pressing need.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Guangyu Shen , Yingqi Liu , Guanhong Tao , Shengwei An , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

While pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit impressive representational capabilities for multimodal data, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks. To alleviate the threat, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiawei Kong , Hao Fang , Sihang Guo , Chenxi Qing , Kuofeng Gao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

The increasing complexity of AI models, especially in deep learning, has raised concerns about transparency and accountability, particularly in high-stakes applications like medical diagnostics, where opaque models can undermine trust.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Songning Lai , Yu Huang , Jiayu Yang , Gaoxiang Huang , Wenshuo Chen , Yutao Yue

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to neural networks, enabling adversaries to manipulate model outputs on specific inputs, often with devastating consequences, especially in critical applications. While backdoor attacks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhen Guo , Abhinav Kumar , Reza Tourani

Code Language Models (CLMs), particularly those leveraging deep learning, have achieved significant success in code intelligence domain. However, the issue of security, particularly backdoor attacks, is often overlooked in this process. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Xiang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Terry Yue Zhuo , David Lo , Taolue Chen

According to recent studies, the vulnerability of state-of-the-art Neural Networks to adversarial input samples has increased drastically. A neural network is an intermediate path or technique by which a computer learns to perform tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Anirudh Yadav , Ashutosh Upadhyay , S. Sharanya

Jailbreak backdoor attacks on LLMs have garnered attention for their effectiveness and stealth. However, existing methods rely on the crafting of poisoned datasets and the time-consuming process of fine-tuning. In this work, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhuowei Chen , Qiannan Zhang , Shichao Pei

Backdoor attacks manipulate model predictions by inserting innocuous triggers into training and test data. We focus on more realistic and more challenging clean-label attacks where the adversarial training examples are correctly labeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wencong You , Zayd Hammoudeh , Daniel Lowd

The growing dependence on machine learning in real-world applications emphasizes the importance of understanding and ensuring its safety. Backdoor attacks pose a significant security risk due to their stealthy nature and potentially serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ganghua Wang , Xun Xian , Jayanth Srinivasa , Ashish Kundu , Xuan Bi , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

Backdoor attacks on deep learning represent a recent threat that has gained significant attention in the research community. Backdoor defenses are mainly based on backdoor inversion, which has been shown to be generic, model-agnostic, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Xiaoyun Xu , Zhuoran Liu , Stefanos Koffas , Shujian Yu , Stjepan Picek

For nearly a decade the academic community has investigated backdoors in neural networks, primarily focusing on classification tasks where adversaries manipulate the model prediction. While demonstrably malicious, the immediate real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nicolas Küchler , Ivan Petrov , Conrad Grobler , Ilia Shumailov

With the thriving of deep learning and the widespread practice of using pre-trained networks, backdoor attacks have become an increasing security threat drawing many research interests in recent years. A third-party model can be poisoned in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Anh Nguyen , Anh Tran

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

In this paper we show that cryptographic backdoors in a neural network (NN) can be highly effective in two directions, namely mounting the attacks as well as in presenting the defenses as well. On the attack side, a carefully planted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Anh Tu Ngo , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Subhamoy Maitra

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to deep neural networks (DNNs), allowing adversaries to implant triggers for hidden behaviors in inference. Defending against such vulnerabilities is especially difficult in the post-training setting,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Weijun Li , Ansh Arora , Xuanli He , Mark Dras , Qiongkai Xu

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 attack is a common threat to deep neural networks. During testing, samples embedded with a backdoor trigger will be misclassified as an adversarial target by a backdoored model, while samples without the backdoor trigger will be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Zhen Xiang , Zidi Xiong , Bo Li

In the era of increasing concerns over cybersecurity threats, defending against backdoor attacks is paramount in ensuring the integrity and reliability of machine learning models. However, many existing approaches require substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

Image anomaly detection (IAD) is essential in applications such as industrial inspection, medical imaging, and security. Despite the progress achieved with deep learning models like Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection (DeepSAD), these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 He Cheng , Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan

Backdoor attack injects malicious behavior to models such that inputs embedded with triggers are misclassified to a target label desired by the attacker. However, natural features may behave like triggers, causing misclassification once…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yingqi Liu , Guangyu Shen , Guanhong Tao , Zhenting Wang , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang