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Recent studies show that neural natural language processing (NLP) models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Injected with backdoors, models perform normally on benign examples but produce attacker-specified predictions when the backdoor is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Fanchao Qi , Yuan Yao , Sophia Xu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

In-context learning, a paradigm bridging the gap between pre-training and fine-tuning, has demonstrated high efficacy in several NLP tasks, especially in few-shot settings. Despite being widely applied, in-context learning is vulnerable to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Shuai Zhao , Meihuizi Jia , Luu Anh Tuan , Fengjun Pan , Jinming Wen

Backdoor attacks are a kind of insidious security threat against machine learning models. After being injected with a backdoor in training, the victim model will produce adversary-specified outputs on the inputs embedded with predesigned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Fanchao Qi , Mukai Li , Yangyi Chen , Zhengyan Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Yasheng Wang , Maosong Sun

Backdoor attacks in machine learning have drawn significant attention for their potential to compromise models stealthily, yet most research has focused on homogeneous data such as images. In this work, we propose a novel backdoor attack on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Behrad Tajalli , Stefanos Koffas , Stjepan Picek

In recent years there has been enormous interest in vision-language models trained using self-supervised objectives. However, the use of large-scale datasets scraped from the web for training also makes these models vulnerable to potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Alvi Md Ishmam , Christopher Thomas

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

Backdoor attacks pose a new threat to NLP models. A standard strategy to construct poisoned data in backdoor attacks is to insert triggers (e.g., rare words) into selected sentences and alter the original label to a target label. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Leilei Gan , Jiwei Li , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Shangwei Guo , Chun Fan

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have emerged as a revolutionary approach to automating human-machine interactions, capable of autonomously operating personal devices (e.g., mobile…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ziang Ye , Yang Zhang , Wentao Shi , Xiaoyu You , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

The rapid growth of natural language processing (NLP) and pre-trained language models have enabled accurate text classification in a variety of settings. However, text classification models are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-30 A. Dilara Yavuz , M. Emre Gursoy

Biometric systems, such as face recognition systems powered by deep neural networks (DNNs), rely on large and highly sensitive datasets. Backdoor attacks can subvert these systems by manipulating the training process. By inserting a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Farah Wahida , M. A. P. Chamikara , Yashothara Shanmugarasa , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Thilina Ranbaduge , Ibrahim Khalil

The emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) represents a significant advancement in integrating computer vision with Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate detailed text descriptions from visual inputs. Despite their growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Weimin Lyu , Jiachen Yao , Saumya Gupta , Lu Pang , Tao Sun , Lingjie Yi , Lijie Hu , Haibin Ling , Chao Chen

With the broad application of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor attacks have gradually attracted attention. Backdoor attacks are insidious, and poisoned models perform well on benign samples and are only triggered when given specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Chang Yue , Peizhuo Lv , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen

Despite the strong multimodal performance, large vision-language models (LVLMs) are vulnerable during fine-tuning to backdoor attacks, where adversaries insert trigger-embedded samples into the training data to implant behaviors that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhifang Zhang , Bojun Yang , Shuo He , Weitong Chen , Wei Emma Zhang , Olaf Maennel , Lei Feng , Miao Xu

Deep learning models have achieved high performance on many tasks, and thus have been applied to many security-critical scenarios. For example, deep learning-based face recognition systems have been used to authenticate users to access many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Xinyun Chen , Chang Liu , Bo Li , Kimberly Lu , Dawn Song

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map multimodal perception and language instructions to executable robot actions, making them particularly vulnerable to behavioral backdoor manipulation: a hidden trigger introduced during training can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zonghuan Xu , Jiayu Li , Yunhan Zhao , Xiang Zheng , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in generating textual responses from visual inputs, but their versatility raises security concerns. This study takes the first step in exposing VLMs' susceptibility to data poisoning attacks that can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yuancheng Xu , Jiarui Yao , Manli Shu , Yanchao Sun , Zichu Wu , Ning Yu , Tom Goldstein , Furong Huang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced robotic control by enabling end-to-end decision-making directly from multimodal inputs. However, their tightly coupled architectures expose novel security vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xueyang Zhou , Guiyao Tie , Guowen Zhang , Hechang Wang , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

Voice authentication systems remain susceptible to two major threats: backdoor triggered attacks and targeted data poisoning attacks. This dual vulnerability is critical because conventional solutions typically address each threat type…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Alireza Mohammadi , Keshav Sood , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Asef Nazari

Recent studies have pointed out that natural language processing (NLP) models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. A backdoored model produces normal outputs on the clean samples while performing improperly on the texts with triggers that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xuan Sheng , Zhicheng Li , Zhaoyang Han , Xiangmao Chang , Piji Li

Backdoor attacks are among the most effective, practical, and stealthy attacks in deep learning. In this paper, we consider a practical scenario where a developer obtains a deep model from a third party and uses it as part of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Dorde Popovic , Amin Sadeghi , Ting Yu , Sanjay Chawla , Issa Khalil