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Diffusion models (DMs) have been investigated in various domains due to their ability to generate high-quality data, thereby attracting significant attention. However, similar to traditional deep learning systems, there also exist potential…

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Backdoor attacks have been shown to be a serious security threat against deep learning models, and detecting whether a given model has been backdoored becomes a crucial task. Existing defenses are mainly built upon the observation that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Tong Wang , Yuan Yao , Feng Xu , Miao Xu , Shengwei An , Ting Wang

Recent studies show that diffusion models (DMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks impose unconcealed triggers (e.g., a gray box and eyeglasses) that contain evident patterns, rendering remarkable attack effects…

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This work provides the community with a timely comprehensive review of backdoor attacks and countermeasures on deep learning. According to the attacker's capability and affected stage of the machine learning pipeline, the attack surfaces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yansong Gao , Bao Gia Doan , Zhi Zhang , Siqi Ma , Jiliang Zhang , Anmin Fu , Surya Nepal , Hyoungshick Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs), which bridge the gap between human language understanding and complex problem-solving, achieve state-of-the-art performance on several NLP tasks, particularly in few-shot and zero-shot settings. Despite the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Shuai Zhao , Meihuizi Jia , Zhongliang Guo , Leilei Gan , Xiaoyu Xu , Xiaobao Wu , Jie Fu , Yichao Feng , Fengjun Pan , Luu Anh Tuan

While diffusion models have revolutionized visual content generation, their rapid adoption has underscored the critical need to investigate vulnerabilities, e.g., to backdoor attacks. In multimodal diffusion models, it is natural to expect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qitong Wang , Haoran Dai , Haotian Zhang , Christopher Rasmussen , Binghui Wang

In recent years, diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the realm of high-quality image generation, garnering increased attention. This surge in interest is paralleled by a growing concern over the security threats associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sen Li , Junchi Ma , Minhao Cheng

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat for training neural networks as they surreptitiously introduce hidden functionalities into a model. Such backdoors remain silent during inference on clean inputs, evading detection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lukas Struppek , Martin B. Hentschel , Clifton Poth , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become increasingly prevalent in many real world applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cong Liao , Haoti Zhong , Anna Squicciarini , Sencun Zhu , David Miller

Contrastive learning has become a leading self- supervised approach to representation learning across domains, including vision, multimodal settings, graphs, and federated learning. However, recent studies have shown that contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Simi D Kuniyilh , Rita Machacy

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel in many tasks, the huge training resources they require become an obstacle for practitioners to develop their own models. It has become common to collect data from the Internet or hire a third party…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Pengfei Xia , Hongjing Niu , Ziqiang Li , Bin Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have long been recognized as vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By providing poisoned training data in the fine-tuning process, the attacker can implant a backdoor into the victim model. This enables input samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Abdullah Arafat Miah , Yu Bi

Deep regression models are used in a wide variety of safety-critical applications, but are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Although many defenses have been proposed for classification models, they are ineffective as they do not consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Lingyu Du , Yupei Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Guohao Lan

Multimodal Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have recently emerged as a competitive alternative to their autoregressive counterparts. Yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks remains largely unexplored. In this work, we show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Guangnian Wan , Qi Li , Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Federated learning is a promising approach for training machine learning models while preserving data privacy. However, its distributed nature makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks, particularly in NLP tasks, where related research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Minyeong Choe , Cheolhee Park , Changho Seo , Hyunil Kim

Data-poisoning backdoor attacks are serious security threats to machine learning models, where an adversary can manipulate the training dataset to inject backdoors into models. In this paper, we focus on in-training backdoor defense, aiming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shaokui Wei , Hongyuan Zha , Baoyuan Wu

Language Models (LMs) are becoming increasingly popular in real-world applications. Outsourcing model training and data hosting to third-party platforms has become a standard method for reducing costs. In such a situation, the attacker can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Pengzhou Cheng , Zongru Wu , Wei Du , Haodong Zhao , Wei Lu , Gongshen Liu

The goal of federated learning (FL) is to train one global model by aggregating model parameters updated independently on edge devices without accessing users' private data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor attacks where a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yein Kim , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar

Institutions with limited data and computing resources often outsource model training to third-party providers in a semi-honest setting, assuming adherence to prescribed training protocols with pre-defined learning paradigm (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xuan Wang , Siyuan Liang , Dongping Liao , Han Fang , Aishan Liu , Xiaochun Cao , Yu-liang Lu , Ee-Chien Chang , Xitong Gao

Text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality and diverse images from text prompts, yet recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks. Existing attack methods…

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