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Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated exemplary performance on a variety of vision tasks and are being used as an alternative to CNNs. Their design is based on a self-attention mechanism that processes images as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Aniruddha Saha , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ajinkya Tejankar , Hamed Pirsiavash

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have a radically different architecture with significantly less inductive bias than Convolutional Neural Networks. Along with the improvement in performance, security and robustness of ViTs are also of great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Khoa D. Doan , Yingjie Lao , Peng Yang , Ping Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated the state-of-the-art performance in various vision-related tasks. The success of ViTs motivates adversaries to perform backdoor attacks on ViTs. Although the vulnerability of traditional CNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou , Lei Jiang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have outperformed traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) across various computer vision tasks. However, akin to CNN, ViTs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary embeds the backdoor into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ji Guo , Hongwei Li , Wenbo Jiang , Guoming Lu

Visual State Space Models (VSSM) have shown remarkable performance in various computer vision tasks. However, backdoor attacks pose significant security challenges, causing compromised models to predict target labels when specific triggers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cheng-Yi Lee , Yu-Hsuan Chiang , Zhong-You Wu , Chia-Mu Yu , Chun-Shien Lu

This paper investigates how Backdoor Attacks are represented within Vision Transformers (ViTs). By assuming knowledge of the trigger, we identify a specific ``trigger direction'' in the model's activations that corresponds to the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Sengim Karayalcin , Marina Krcek , Pin-Yu Chen , Stjepan Picek

Vision State Space Models (SSMs), particularly architectures like Vision Mamba (ViM), have emerged as promising alternatives to Vision Transformers (ViTs). However, the security implications of this novel architecture, especially their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yinghao Wu , Liyan Zhang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success across vision tasks, yet recent studies show they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing patch-wise attacks typically assume a single fixed trigger location during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Dazhuang Liu , Yanqi Qiao , Rui Wang , Kaitai Liang , Georgios Smaragdakis

Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) have become a dominant component due to their exceptional performance when fine-tuned for downstream tasks. However, the presence of backdoors within PVMs poses significant threats. Unfortunately, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Aishan Liu , Xinwei Zhang , Yisong Xiao , Yuguang Zhou , Siyuan Liang , Jiakai Wang , Xianglong Liu , Xiaochun Cao , Dacheng Tao

Due to the high cost of training, large model (LM) practitioners commonly use pretrained models downloaded from untrusted sources, which could lead to owning compromised models. In-context learning is the ability of LMs to perform multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Aitor Urbieta

The increasing reliance on machine learning systems has made their security a critical concern. Evasion attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the decision-making processes of AI systems, potentially causing security breaches or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kasper Cools , Clara Maathuis , Alexander M. van Oers , Claudia S. Hübner , Nikos Deligiannis , Marijke Vandewal , Geert De Cubber

Recent studies have revealed that vision transformers (ViTs) face similar security risks from adversarial attacks as deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, directly applying attack methodology on CNNs to ViTs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chao Zhou , Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang

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 this work we demonstrate the vulnerability of vision transformers (ViTs) to gradient-based inversion attacks. During this attack, the original data batch is reconstructed given model weights and the corresponding gradients. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Holger Roth , Wenqi Li , Jan Kautz , Daguang Xu , Pavlo Molchanov

Vision transformers (ViTs) process input images as sequences of patches via self-attention; a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This makes it interesting to study the adversarial feature space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly used in computer vision due to their high performance, but their vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a concern. Existing methods lack a solid theoretical basis, focusing mainly on empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xixu Hu , Runkai Zheng , Jindong Wang , Cheuk Hang Leung , Qi Wu , Xing Xie

Backdoor attacks become a significant security concern for deep neural networks in recent years. An image classification model can be compromised if malicious backdoors are injected into it. This corruption will cause the model to function…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Hongwei Zhang , Xiaoyin Xu , Dongsheng An , Xianfeng Gu , Min Zhang

Recent works have demonstrated that deep learning models are vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks, where these attacks instill spurious correlations to external trigger patterns or objects (e.g., stickers, sunglasses, etc.). We find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tong Wu , Tianhao Wang , Vikash Sehwag , Saeed Mahloujifar , Prateek Mittal

Patch attacks, one of the most threatening forms of physical attack in adversarial examples, can lead networks to induce misclassification by modifying pixels arbitrarily in a continuous region. Certifiable patch defense can guarantee…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zhaoyu Chen , Bo Li , Jianghe Xu , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Wenqiang Zhang
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