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In recent years, machine learning algorithms have been applied widely in various fields such as health, transportation, and the autonomous car. With the rapid developments of deep learning techniques, it is critical to take the security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 erhat Ozgur Catak , Samed Sivaslioglu , Kevser Sahinbas

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to the training process of deep neural networks (DNNs). As a widely-used DNN-based application in real-world scenarios, face recognition systems once implanted into the backdoor, may cause serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ming Sun , Lihua Jing , Zixuan Zhu , Rui Wang

Diffusion models are powerful generative models in continuous data domains such as image and video data. Discrete graph diffusion models (DGDMs) have recently extended them for graph generation, which are crucial in fields like molecule and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiawen Wang , Samin Karim , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Deep learning models have achieved unprecedented performance in the domain of object detection, resulting in breakthroughs in areas such as autonomous driving and security. However, deep learning models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jeongjin Shin

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) usually requires massive training data and computational resources. Users who cannot afford this may prefer to outsource training to a third party or resort to publicly available pre-trained models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Yiming Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in various applications including video action recognition, yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks (Trojans). The backdoor-compromised model will mis-classify to the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xi Li , Songhe Wang , Ruiquan Huang , Mahanth Gowda , George Kesidis

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a type of adversarial attack that poisons the training data to manipulate the behavior of models trained on such data. Clean-label attacks are a more stealthy form of backdoor attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Quang H. Nguyen , Nguyen Ngoc-Hieu , The-Anh Ta , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Kok-Seng Wong , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Khoa D. Doan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a backdoored model behaves normally with clean inputs but exhibits attacker-specified behaviors upon the inputs containing triggers. Most previous backdoor attacks mainly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Linshan Hou , Zhongyun Hua , Yuhong Li , Yifeng Zheng , Leo Yu Zhang

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

Backdoor attacks threaten Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Towards stealthiness, researchers propose clean-label backdoor attacks, which require the adversaries not to alter the labels of the poisoned training datasets. Clean-label settings…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Nan Luo , Yuanzhang Li , Yajie Wang , Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Quanxin Zhang

Malicious applications of visual manipulation have raised serious threats to the security and reputation of users in many fields. To alleviate these issues, adversarial noise-based defenses have been enthusiastically studied in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Dawei Zhou , Suzhi Gang , Decheng Liu , Tongliang Liu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Image anomaly detection (IAD) is essential in applications such as industrial inspection, medical imaging, and security. Despite the progress achieved with deep learning models like Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection (DeepSAD), these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 He Cheng , Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan

Backdoor attacks against pre-trained models (PTMs) have traditionally operated under an ``immediacy assumption,'' where malicious behavior manifests instantly upon trigger occurrence. This work revisits and challenges this paradigm by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zikang Ding , Haomiao Yang , Meng Hao , Wenbo Jiang , Kunlan Xiang , Runmeng Du , Yijing Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Large pre-trained models have achieved notable success across a range of downstream tasks. However, recent research shows that a type of adversarial attack ($\textit{i.e.,}$ backdoor attack) can manipulate the behavior of machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dongliang Guo , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Junfeng Guo , Thomas Hartvigsen , Sheng Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal text generation, yet their rapid adoption raises increasing concerns about security vulnerabilities. Existing backdoor attacks against VLMs primarily rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Haoyu Shen , Weimin Lyu , Haotian Xu , Tengfei Ma

Model inversion (MI) attacks have raised increasing concerns about privacy, which can reconstruct training data from public models. Indeed, MI attacks can be formalized as an optimization problem that seeks private data in a certain space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xiaojian Yuan , Kejiang Chen , Jie Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Yang Zhang

Studying backdoor attacks is valuable for model copyright protection and enhancing defenses. While existing backdoor attacks have successfully infected multimodal contrastive learning models such as CLIP, they can be easily countered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Siyuan Liang , Mingli Zhu , Aishan Liu , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaochun Cao , Ee-Chien Chang

Designing powerful adversarial attacks is of paramount importance for the evaluation of $\ell_p$-bounded adversarial defenses. Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is one of the most effective and conceptually simple algorithms to generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Nikolaos Antoniou , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

While neural networks allow highly accurate predictions in many tasks, their lack of robustness towards even slight input perturbations often hampers their deployment. Adversarial attacks such as the seminal projected gradient descent (PGD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shashank Agnihotri , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

Outsourced deep neural networks have been demonstrated to suffer from patch-based trojan attacks, in which an adversary poisons the training sets to inject a backdoor in the obtained model so that regular inputs can be still labeled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ying He , Zhili Shen , Chang Xia , Jingyu Hua , Wei Tong , Sheng Zhong