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Dataset distillation (DD) compresses a large training set into a small synthetic set for efficient training, but most DD methods optimize only clean accuracy and leave robustness uncontrolled. Recent robust DD methods improve robustness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Muquan Li , Yingyi Ma , Yihong Huang , Hang Gou , Ke Qin , Ming Li , Yuan-Fang Li , Tao He

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks, with most research focusing on digital triggers -- artificial patterns added to test-time inputs to induce targeted misclassification. Physical triggers,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Thinh Dao , Khoa D Doan , Kok-Seng Wong

Backdoor data poisoning is an emerging form of adversarial attack usually against deep neural network image classifiers. The attacker poisons the training set with a relatively small set of images from one (or several) source class(es),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Dataset distillation aims to compress training data into fewer examples via a teacher, from which a student can learn effectively. While its success is often attributed to structure in the data, modern neural networks also memorize specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Freya Behrens , Lenka Zdeborová

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

As the capacity of deep neural networks (DNNs) increases, their need for huge amounts of data significantly grows. A common practice is to outsource the training process or collect more data over the Internet, which introduces the risks of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Soroush Hashemifar , Saeed Parsa , Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi

Dataset distillation seeks to synthesize a highly compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the original dataset on downstream tasks. For the classification task that use pre-trained self-supervised models as backbones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qianxin Xia , Jiawei Du , Xin Zhang , Yuhan Zhang , Jielei Wang , Guoming Lu

Federated Learning is vulnerable to adversarial manipulation, where malicious clients can inject poisoned updates to influence the global model's behavior. While existing defense mechanisms have made notable progress, they fail to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Georgios Syros , Anshuman Suri , Farinaz Koushanfar , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

Dataset distillation is a method for reducing dataset sizes by learning a small number of synthetic samples containing all the information of a large dataset. This has several benefits like speeding up model training, reducing energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ilia Sucholutsky , Matthias Schonlau

Backdoor data poisoning attacks have recently been demonstrated in computer vision research as a potential safety risk for machine learning (ML) systems. Traditional data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to induce unreliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Loc Truong , Chace Jones , Brian Hutchinson , Andrew August , Brenda Praggastis , Robert Jasper , Nicole Nichols , Aaron Tuor

Backdoor attacks aim to inject a backdoor into a classifier such that it predicts any input with an attacker-chosen backdoor trigger as an attacker-chosen target class. Existing backdoor attacks require either retraining the classifier with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bochuan Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Chuxuan Hu , Wenbo Guo , Zhen Xiang , Jinghui Chen , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Conventional dataset distillation requires significant computational resources and assumes access to the entire dataset, an assumption impractical as it presumes all data resides on a central server. In this paper, we focus on dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Hyunho Lee , Junhoo Lee , Nojun Kwak

Dataset Distillation (DD) is designed to generate condensed representations of extensive image datasets, enhancing training efficiency. Despite recent advances, there remains considerable potential for improvement, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Bowen Yuan , Zijian Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Dataset distillation seeks to condense datasets into smaller but highly representative synthetic samples. While diffusion models now lead all generative benchmarks, current distillation methods avoid them and rely instead on GANs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Brian B. Moser , Federico Raue , Sebastian Palacio , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel

With the development of deep learning (DL), DL-based code search models have achieved state-of-the-art performance and have been widely used by developers during software development. However, the security issue, e.g., recommending…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Shiyi Qi , Yuanhang Yang , Shuzhzeng Gao , Cuiyun Gao , Zenglin Xu

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to minimize the time and memory consumption needed for training deep neural networks on large datasets, by creating a smaller synthetic dataset that has similar performance to that of the full real dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xinhao Zhong , Bin Chen , Hao Fang , Xulin Gu , Shu-Tao Xia , En-Hui Yang

Web-scraped datasets are vulnerable to data poisoning, which can be used for backdooring deep image classifiers during training. Since training on large datasets is expensive, a model is trained once and re-used many times. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Benjamin Schneider , Nils Lukas , Florian Kerschbaum

The high cost and accessibility problem associated with large datasets hinder the development of large-scale visual recognition systems. Dataset Distillation addresses these problems by synthesizing compact surrogate datasets for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tongfei Liu , Yufan Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Split learning is a collaborative learning design that allows several participants (clients) to train a shared model while keeping their datasets private. Recent studies demonstrate that collaborative learning models, specifically federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Behrad Tajalli , Oguzhan Ersoy , Stjepan Picek

In recent years, attention-based models have excelled across various domains but remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks, often from downloading or fine-tuning on poisoned datasets. Many current methods to mitigate backdoors in NLP models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yidong Ding , Jiafei Niu , Ping Yi