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Recent studies show that text to image (T2I) diffusion models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a trigger in the input prompt can steer generation toward harmful or unintended content. Beyond the trigger token itself, backdoor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Oscar Chew , Po-Yi Lu , Jayden Lin , Kuan-Hao Huang , Hsuan-Tien Lin

While text-to-image diffusion models demonstrate impressive generation capabilities, they also exhibit vulnerability to backdoor attacks, which involve the manipulation of model outputs through malicious triggers. In this paper, for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhongqi Wang , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Self-supervised diffusion models learn high-quality visual representations via latent space denoising. However, their representation layer poses a distinct threat: unlike traditional attacks targeting generative outputs, its unconstrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiayao Wang , Yiping Zhang , Mohammad Maruf Hasan , Xiaoying Lei , Jiale Zhang , Junwu Zhu , Qilin Wu , Dongfang Zhao

The backdoor attack, where the adversary uses inputs stamped with triggers (e.g., a patch) to activate pre-planted malicious behaviors, is a severe threat to Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. Trigger inversion is an effective way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhenting Wang , Kai Mei , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Backdoor attacks targeting text-to-image diffusion models have advanced rapidly. However, current backdoor samples often exhibit two key abnormalities compared to benign samples: 1) Semantic Consistency, where backdoor prompts tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jie Zhang , Zhongqi Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

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

This paper presents a novel reconstruction method that leverages Diffusion Models to protect machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks, all without requiring any modifications to the classifiers themselves. The susceptibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hondamunige Prasanna Silva , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

Diffusion models are powerful generative models in continuous data domains such as image and video data. Discrete graph diffusion models (DGDMs) have recently extended them for graph generation, which are crucial in fields like molecule and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiawen Wang , Samin Karim , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Deep regression models are used in a wide variety of safety-critical applications, but are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Although many defenses have been proposed for classification models, they are ineffective as they do not consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Lingyu Du , Yupei Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Guohao Lan

Recent advances in large text-conditional diffusion models have revolutionized image generation by enabling users to create realistic, high-quality images from textual prompts, significantly enhancing artistic creation and visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ali Naseh , Jaechul Roh , Eugene Bagdasarian , Amir Houmansadr

Neural backdoor attack is emerging as a severe security threat to deep learning, while the capability of existing defense methods is limited, especially for complex backdoor triggers. In the work, we explore the space formed by the pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Ximing Qiao , Yukun Yang , Hai Li

Diffusion Models (DMs) are state-of-the-art generative models that learn a reversible corruption process from iterative noise addition and denoising. They are the backbone of many generative AI applications, such as text-to-image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Sheng-Yen Chou , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

Backdoor attacks are rapidly emerging threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). In the backdoor attack scenario, attackers usually implant the backdoor into the target model by manipulating the training dataset or training process. Then, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nan Zhong , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Typical deep neural network (DNN) backdoor attacks are based on triggers embedded in inputs. Existing imperceptible triggers are computationally expensive or low in attack success. In this paper, we propose a new backdoor trigger, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Yulong Wang , Minghui Zhao , Shenghong Li , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image synthesis, but their reliance on large-scale data and open ecosystems introduces serious backdoor security risks. Existing defenses, particularly input-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zida Li , Jun Li , Yuzhe Sha , Ziqiang Li , Lizhi Xiong , Zhangjie Fu

Recent developments in text-to-image models, particularly Stable Diffusion, have marked significant achievements in various applications. With these advancements, there are growing safety concerns about the vulnerability of the model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chenyu Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Anan Liu

Thanks to their remarkable denoising capabilities, diffusion models are increasingly being employed as defensive tools to reinforce the security of other models, notably in purifying adversarial examples and certifying adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Bochuan Cao , Jinghui Chen , Fenglong Ma , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

Transfer learning provides an effective solution for feasibly and fast customize accurate \textit{Student} models, by transferring the learned knowledge of pre-trained \textit{Teacher} models over large datasets via fine-tuning. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler , Shangyu Chen , Tianle Chen

As deep neural networks and the datasets used to train them get larger, the default approach to integrating them into research and commercial projects is to download a pre-trained model and fine tune it. But these models can have uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in rapid and high-fidelity personalization, even when provided with only a few user images. However, the effectiveness of personalization techniques has lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Naresh Kumar Devulapally , Shruti Agarwal , Tejas Gokhale , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande