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Training deep neural networks (DNNs) usually requires massive training data and computational resources. Users who cannot afford this may prefer to outsource training to a third party or resort to publicly available pre-trained models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Yiming Li

The backdoor or Trojan attack is a severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Researchers find that DNNs trained on benign data and settings can also learn backdoor behaviors, which is known as the natural backdoor. Existing works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenting Wang , Hailun Ding , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Deep anomaly detection on sequential data has garnered significant attention due to the wide application scenarios. However, deep learning-based models face a critical security threat - their vulnerability to backdoor attacks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 He Cheng , Shuhan Yuan

As Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) gain traction across various applications, understanding their security vulnerabilities becomes increasingly important. In this work, we focus on the adversarial attacks, which is perhaps the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Spyridon Raptis , Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos

Backdoor attacks pose a critical threat to the security of deep neural networks, yet existing efforts on universal backdoors often rely on visually salient patterns, making them easier to detect and less practical at scale. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hsin Lin , Yan-Lun Chen , Ren-Hung Hwang , Chia-Mu Yu

With the success of deep learning algorithms in various domains, studying adversarial attacks to secure deep models in real world applications has become an important research topic. Backdoor attacks are a form of adversarial attacks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Aniruddha Saha , Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

Recent researches show that deep learning model is susceptible to backdoor attacks. Many defenses against backdoor attacks have been proposed. However, existing defense works require high computational overhead or backdoor attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingfu Xue , Yinghao Wu , Zhiyu Wu , Yushu Zhang , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks that are effective in SSL often involve noticeable triggers, like colored patches or visible noise, which are vulnerable to human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Hanrong Zhang , Zhenting Wang , Boheng Li , Fulin Lin , Tingxu Han , Mingyu Jin , Chenlu Zhan , Mengnan Du , Hongwei Wang , Shiqing Ma

Backdoor attacks have been one of the emerging security threats to deep neural networks (DNNs), leading to serious consequences. One of the mainstream backdoor defenses is model reconstruction-based. Such defenses adopt model unlearning or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yufei Zhao , Dingji Wang , Bihuan Chen , Ziqian Chen , Xin Peng

Numerous recent studies have demonstrated how Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers can be fooled by adversarial examples, in which an attacker adds perturbations to an original sample, causing the classifier to misclassify the sample.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Yigit Alparslan , Ken Alparslan , Jeremy Keim-Shenk , Shweta Khade , Rachel Greenstadt

Deep learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to recent backdoor attacks. A backdoored model behaves normally for inputs containing no attacker-secretly-chosen trigger and maliciously for inputs with the trigger. To date, backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Hua Ma , Yinshan Li , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , Zhi Zhang , Anmin Fu , Hyoungshick Kim , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Nepal Surya , Derek Abbott

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep learning models by implanting hidden vulnerabilities that can be activated by malicious inputs. While numerous defenses have been proposed to mitigate these attacks, the heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gorka Abad , Marina Krček , Stefanos Koffas , Behrad Tajalli , Marco Arazzi , Roberto Riaño , Xiaoyun Xu , Zhuoran Liu , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

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

Machine learning backdoors have the property that the machine learning model should work as expected on normal inputs, but when the input contains a specific $\textit{trigger}$, it behaves as the attacker desires. Detecting such triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Eirik Høyheim , Magnus Wiik Eckhoff , Gudmund Grov , Robert Flood , David Aspinall

Backdoor (trojan) attacks embed hidden, controllable behaviors into machine-learning models so that models behave normally on benign inputs but produce attacker-chosen outputs when a trigger is present. This survey reviews the rapidly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Zhang , Shang Gao

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in image generation, yet recent studies reveal their vulnerability to backdoor attacks, where adversaries manipulate outputs via covert triggers embedded in inputs. Existing defenses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lei Zhang , Yu Pan , Bingrong Dai , Lin Wang

Recent studies have revealed a security threat to natural language processing (NLP) models, called the Backdoor Attack. Victim models can maintain competitive performance on clean samples while behaving abnormally on samples with a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wenkai Yang , Lei Li , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun , Bin He

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have had a dramatic impact on a variety of problems that were long considered very difficult, e. g., image classification and automatic language translation to name just a few. The accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yannik Potdevin , Dirk Nowotka , Vijay Ganesh

Keyword spotting (KWS) based on deep neural networks (DNNs) has achieved massive success in voice control scenarios. However, training of such DNN-based KWS systems often requires significant data and hardware resources. Manufacturers often…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Hanbo Cai , Pengcheng Zhang , Hai Dong , Yan Xiao , Shunhui Ji

Recently, 3D backdoor attacks have posed a substantial threat to 3D Deep Neural Networks (3D DNNs) designed for 3D point clouds, which are extensively deployed in various security-critical applications. Although the existing 3D backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaoyang Ning , Qing Xie , Jinyu Xu , Wenbo Jiang , Jiachen Li , Yanchun Ma