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Deep learning models are susceptible to {\em backdoor attacks} involving malicious attackers perturbing a small subset of training data with a {\em trigger} to causes misclassifications. Various triggers have been used, including semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Venkat Adithya Amula , Sunayana Samavedam , Saurabh Saini , Avani Gupta , Narayanan P J

Backdoor attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a significant security threat, allowing adversaries to implant hidden malicious behaviors during the model training phase. Pre-processing-based defense, which is one of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yukun Chen , Shuo Shao , Enhao Huang , Yiming Li , Pin-Yu Chen , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Bingxu Mu , Zhenxing Niu , Le Wang , Xue Wang , Rong Jin , Gang Hua

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained popularity in numerous domains, yet they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks that can compromise their performance and ethical application. The detection of these attacks is crucial for maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jane Downer , Ren Wang , Binghui Wang

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Siyuan Cheng , Yingqi Liu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which could be easily introduced to the training set prior to model training. Recent work has focused on investigating backdoor attacks on natural images or toy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Munachiso Nwadike , Takumi Miyawaki , Esha Sarkar , Michail Maniatakos , Farah Shamout

Deep neural networks have significantly improved the performance of face forgery detection models in discriminating Artificial Intelligent Generated Content (AIGC). However, their security is significantly threatened by the injection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Ziwen He , Jing Dong

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Fanchao Qi , Yangyi Chen , Xurui Zhang , Mukai Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Multimodal contrastive models have achieved strong performance in text-audio retrieval and zero-shot settings, but improving joint embedding spaces remains an active research area. Less attention has been given to making these systems…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Julien Guinot , Elio Quinton , György Fazekas

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are becoming increasingly more important in assisted and automated driving. Using such entities which are obtained using machine learning is inevitable: tasks such as recognizing traffic signs cannot be developed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Akshay Dhonthi , Ernst Moritz Hahn , Vahid Hashemi

The tremendous progress of autoencoders and generative adversarial networks (GANs) has led to their application to multiple critical tasks, such as fraud detection and sanitized data generation. This increasing adoption has fostered the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Ahmed Salem , Yannick Sautter , Michael Backes , Mathias Humbert , Yang Zhang

With wider application of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various algorithms and frameworks, security threats have become one of the concerns. Adversarial attacks disturb DNN-based image classifiers, in which attackers can intentionally add…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jinyi Wang , Zhaoyang Lyu , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai , Hongfei Fu

Most autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on LiDAR and RGB camera sensors for perception. Using these point cloud and image data, perception models based on deep neural nets (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in 3D detection. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Mazen Abdelfattah , Kaiwen Yuan , Z. Jane Wang , Rabab Ward

The generation of high-quality images has become widely accessible and is a rapidly evolving process. As a result, anyone can generate images that are indistinguishable from real ones. This leads to a wide range of applications, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Sergey Sinitsa , Ohad Fried

Transfer learning provides an effective solution for feasibly and fast customize accurate \textit{Student} models, by transferring the learned knowledge of pre-trained \textit{Teacher} models over large datasets via fine-tuning. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler , Shangyu Chen , Tianle Chen

As text-to-image diffusion models become increasingly deployed in real-world applications, concerns about backdoor attacks have gained significant attention. Prior work on text-based backdoor attacks has largely focused on diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ziyuan Chen , Yujin Jeong , Tobias Braun , Anna Rohrbach

In a backdoor attack on a machine learning model, an adversary produces a model that performs well on normal inputs but outputs targeted misclassifications on inputs containing a small trigger pattern. Model compression is a widely-used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Yulong Tian , Fnu Suya , Fengyuan Xu , David Evans

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) underpin critical applications yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks, typically reliant on heuristic brute-force methods. Despite significant empirical advancements in backdoor research, the lack of rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhou Feng , Jiahao Chen , Chunyi Zhou , Yuwen Pu , Tianyu Du , Jinbao Li , Jianhai Chen , Shouling Ji

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