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Adversarial attacks, particularly patch attacks, pose significant threats to the robustness and reliability of deep learning models. Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks is crucial for real-world applications. This paper…

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Person Re-Identification (ReID) systems pose a significant security risk from backdoor attacks, allowing adversaries to evade tracking or impersonate others. Beyond recognizing this issue, we investigate how backdoor attacks can be deployed…

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The escalating sophistication of cyberattacks has encouraged the integration of machine learning techniques in intrusion detection systems, but the rise of adversarial examples presents a significant challenge. These crafted perturbations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Mohamed Amine Merzouk , Erwan Beurier , Reda Yaich , Nora Boulahia-Cuppens , Frédéric Cuppens

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet they remain susceptible to adversarial perturbations, which pose significant risks in safety-critical applications. With the rise of multimodality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Xinxin Liu , Zhongliang Guo , Siyuan Huang , Chun Pong Lau

Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where malicious modifications to the training data cause the model to generate unintended outputs when specific triggers are present. While classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Abha Jha , Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan , Matthew Salaway , Atharva Sandeep Bhide , Duygu Nur Yaldiz

Diffusion models (DM) have become state-of-the-art generative models because of their capability to generate high-quality images from noises without adversarial training. However, they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks as reported by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shengwei An , Sheng-Yen Chou , Kaiyuan Zhang , Qiuling Xu , Guanhong Tao , Guangyu Shen , Siyuan Cheng , Shiqing Ma , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Xiangyu Zhang

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

The backdoor attack, where the adversary uses inputs stamped with triggers (e.g., a patch) to activate pre-planted malicious behaviors, is a severe threat to Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. Trigger inversion is an effective way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhenting Wang , Kai Mei , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Although deep learning-based visual tracking methods have made significant progress, they exhibit vulnerabilities when facing carefully designed adversarial attacks, which can lead to a sharp decline in tracking performance. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Long Xu , Peng Gao , Wen-Jia Tang , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Recent advancements in diffusion models have enabled high-fidelity and photorealistic image generation across diverse applications. However, these models also present security and privacy risks, including copyright violations, sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiacheng Shi , Yanfu Zhang , Huajie Shao , Ashley Gao

Many backdoor removal techniques in machine learning models require clean in-distribution data, which may not always be available due to proprietary datasets. Model inversion techniques, often considered privacy threats, can reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Si Chen , Yi Zeng , Jiachen T. Wang , Won Park , Xun Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Zhuoqing Mao , Ruoxi Jia

Pervasive backdoors are triggered by dynamic and pervasive input perturbations. They can be intentionally injected by attackers or naturally exist in normally trained models. They have a different nature from the traditional static and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guanhong Tao , Yingqi Liu , Siyuan Cheng , Shengwei An , Zhuo Zhang , Qiuling Xu , Guangyu Shen , Xiangyu Zhang

Most end-to-end autonomous driving methods rely on imitation learning from single expert demonstrations, often leading to conservative and homogeneous behaviors that limit generalization in complex real-world scenarios. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ziying Song , Lin Liu , Hongyu Pan , Bencheng Liao , Mingzhe Guo , Lei Yang , Yongchang Zhang , Shaoqing Xu , Caiyan Jia , Yadan Luo

Diffusion models, emerging as powerful deep generative tools, excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and then employing a model to convert random noise into new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huijie Zhang , Yifu Lu , Ismail Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Dogyoon Song , Qing Qu

Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable success across numerous tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to Trojan (backdoor) attacks, raising serious concerns about their safety in real-world mission-critical applications. A common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hossein Mirzaei , Zeinab Taghavi , Sepehr Rezaee , Masoud Hadi , Moein Madadi , Mackenzie W. Mathis

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Haoran Dai , Jiawen Wang , Ruo Yang , Manali Sharma , Zhonghao Liao , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Diffusion models are state-of-the-art deep learning generative models that are trained on the principle of learning forward and backward diffusion processes via the progressive addition of noise and denoising. In this paper, we aim to fool…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Orson Mengara

Adversarial purification refers to a class of defense methods that remove adversarial perturbations using a generative model. These methods do not make assumptions on the form of attack and the classification model, and thus can defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Weili Nie , Brandon Guo , Yujia Huang , Chaowei Xiao , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

Backdoor learning is a critical research topic for understanding the vulnerabilities of deep neural networks. While the diffusion model (DM) has been broadly deployed in public over the past few years, the understanding of its backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Weilin Lin , Nanjun Zhou , Yanyun Wang , Jianze Li , Hui Xiong , Li Liu