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This work studies the threats of adversarial attack on multivariate probabilistic forecasting models and viable defense mechanisms. Our studies discover a new attack pattern that negatively impact the forecasting of a target time series via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Linbo Liu , Youngsuk Park , Trong Nghia Hoang , Hilaf Hasson , Jun Huan

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), so that the attacked models perform well on benign samples, whereas their predictions will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

Existing research on training-time attacks for deep neural networks (DNNs), such as backdoors, largely assume that models are static once trained, and hidden backdoors trained into models remain active indefinitely. In practice, models are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huiying Li , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Yuxin Chen , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

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

Deep learning has been actively applied to time series forecasting, leading to a deluge of new methods, belonging to the class of historical-value models. Yet, despite the attractive properties of time-index models, such as being able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Gerald Woo , Chenghao Liu , Doyen Sahoo , Akshat Kumar , Steven Hoi

Missing values are ubiquitous in multivariate time series (MTS) data, posing significant challenges for accurate analysis and downstream applications. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have successfully handled missing data by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Jun Wang , Wenjie Du , Yiyuan Yang , Linglong Qian , Wei Cao , Keli Zhang , Wenjia Wang , Yuxuan Liang , Qingsong Wen

In recent years, machine learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Under such attacks, an adversary embeds a stealthy backdoor into the trained model such that the compromised models will behave normally on clean…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Khoa D. Doan , Yingjie Lao , Ping 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

Machine learning (ML) will likely play a large role in many processes in the future, also for insurance companies. However, ML models are at risk of being attacked and manipulated. In this work, the robustness of Gradient Boosted Decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Robin Kühlem , Daniel Otten , Daniel Ludwig , Anselm Hudde , Alexander Rosenbaum , Andreas Mauthe

Interpretability is crucial to understand the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs) and many interpretation methods generate saliency maps that highlight parts of the input image that contribute the most to the prediction made by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Shihong Fang , Anna Choromanska

In recent years, neural backdoor attack has been considered to be a potential security threat to deep learning systems. Such systems, while achieving the state-of-the-art performance on clean data, perform abnormally on inputs with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Anh Nguyen , Anh Tran

Large pre-trained models have achieved notable success across a range of downstream tasks. However, recent research shows that a type of adversarial attack ($\textit{i.e.,}$ backdoor attack) can manipulate the behavior of machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dongliang Guo , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Junfeng Guo , Thomas Hartvigsen , Sheng Li

In recent years, the security issues of artificial intelligence have become increasingly prominent due to the rapid development of deep learning research and applications. Backdoor attack is an attack targeting the vulnerability of deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Peixin Zhang , Jun Sun , Mingtian Tan , Xinyu Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown great promise in various domains. However, vulnerabilities associated with DNN training, such as backdoor attacks, are a significant concern. These attacks involve the subtle insertion of triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Bart Pleiter , Behrad Tajalli , Stefanos Koffas , Gorka Abad , Jing Xu , Martha Larson , Stjepan Picek

It has been proved that deep neural networks are facing a new threat called backdoor attacks, where the adversary can inject backdoors into the neural network model through poisoning the training dataset. When the input containing some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Chuanshuai Chen , Jiazhu Dai

Task arithmetic in large-scale pre-trained models enables agile adaptation to diverse downstream tasks without extensive retraining. By leveraging task vectors (TVs), users can perform modular updates through simple arithmetic operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Chia-Yi Hsu , Yu-Lin Tsai , Yu Zhe , Yan-Lun Chen , Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Mu Yu , Yang Zhang , Chun-Ying Huang , Jun Sakuma

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

Multivariate time series (MTS) forecasting has a wide range of applications in both industry and academia. Recently, spatial-temporal graph neural networks (STGNNs) have gained popularity as MTS forecasting methods. However, current STGNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Huiliang Zhang , Ping Nie , Lijun Sun , Benoit Boulet

Multivariate time series(MTS) is a universal data type related to many practical applications. However, MTS suffers from missing data problems, which leads to degradation or even collapse of the downstream tasks, such as prediction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Kai Zhang , Qinmin Yang , Chao Li

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