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The security threat of backdoor attacks is a central concern for deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, without poisoned data, unlearning models with clean data and then learning a pruning mask have contributed to backdoor defense.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Weilin Lin , Li Liu , Shaokui Wei , Jianze Li , Hui Xiong

Model Inversion (MI) attacks pose a significant threat to the privacy of Deep Neural Networks by recovering training data distribution from well-trained models. While existing defenses often rely on regularization techniques to reduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhen-Ting Liu , Shang-Tse Chen

Backdoor injection attack is an emerging threat to the security of neural networks, however, there still exist limited effective defense methods against the attack. In this paper, we propose BAERASE, a novel method that can erase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yang Liu , Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Ximeng Liu , Zhuo Ma , Li Wang , Jianfeng Ma

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

Despite the efficacy on a variety of computer vision tasks, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, limiting their applications in security-critical systems. Recent works have shown the possibility of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

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

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative frameworks, excelling in producing high-quality multi-modal samples. However, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks, where backdoored models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Vu Tuan Truong , Long Bao Le

Model pruning has gained traction as a promising defense strategy against backdoor attacks in deep learning. However, existing pruning-based approaches often fall short in accurately identifying and removing the specific parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have made rapid progress in recent years, they are vulnerable in adversarial environments. A malicious backdoor could be embedded in a model by poisoning the training dataset, whose intention is to make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Zhijie Deng , Tianyu Pang , Zihao Xiao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNN), despite their remarkable performance, are highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing defenses mainly rely on activation anomaly analysis or trigger reverse engineering and often require clean samples or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yinbo Yu , Jing Fang , Xuewen Zhang , Chunwei Tian , Qi Zhu , Daoqiang Zhang , Jiajia Liu

Backdoor attack intends to inject hidden backdoor into the deep neural networks (DNNs), such that the prediction of the infected model will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by the attacker-defined trigger, while it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yiming Li , Tongqing Zhai , Baoyuan Wu , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shutao Xia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples with small perturbations. Adversarial defense thus has been an important means which improves the robustness of DNNs by defending against adversarial examples. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jincheng Li , Jiezhang Cao , Yifan Zhang , Jian Chen , Mingkui Tan

Recently backdoor attack has become an emerging threat to the security of deep neural network (DNN) models. To date, most of the existing studies focus on backdoor attack against the uncompressed model; while the vulnerability of compressed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Huy Phan , Cong Shi , Yi Xie , Tianfang Zhang , Zhuohang Li , Tianming Zhao , Jian Liu , Yan Wang , Yingying Chen , Bo Yuan

Recent studies have shown that DNNs can be compromised by backdoor attacks crafted at training time. A backdoor attack installs a backdoor into the victim model by injecting a backdoor pattern into a small proportion of the training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yunfei Liu , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey , Feng Lu

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep neural networks, particularly as recent advancements have led to increasingly subtle implantation, making the defense more challenging. Existing defense mechanisms typically rely on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yukai Xu , Yujie Gu , Kouichi Sakurai

Diffusion models (DMs) are regarded as one of the most advanced generative models today, yet recent studies suggest that they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which establish hidden associations between particular input patterns and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jiang Hao , Xiao Jin , Hu Xiaoguang , Chen Tianyou , Zhao Jiajia

Backdoor defense, which aims to detect or mitigate the effect of malicious triggers introduced by attackers, is becoming increasingly critical for machine learning security and integrity. Fine-tuning based on benign data is a natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mingli Zhu , Shaokui Wei , Li Shen , Yanbo Fan , Baoyuan Wu

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to both backdoor and adversarial attacks. In the literature, these two types of attacks are commonly treated as distinct robustness problems and solved separately, since they belong to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhenxing Niu , Yuyao Sun , Qiguang Miao , Rong Jin , Gang Hua

The success of a deep neural network (DNN) heavily relies on the details of the training scheme; e.g., training data, architectures, hyper-parameters, etc. Recent backdoor attacks suggest that an adversary can take advantage of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Nazmul Karim , Abdullah Al Arafat , Umar Khalid , Zhishan Guo , Naznin Rahnavard