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Backdoor attacks threaten the deep learning supply chain by poisoning a small fraction of the training data so that a model behaves normally on clean inputs but misclassifies trigger-carrying inputs to an attacker-chosen target class.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yi Yang , Jinyang Huang , Binbin Liu , Feng-Qi Cui , Xiaokang Zhou , Zhi Liu , Jie Zhang , Meng Li

Public resources and services (e.g., datasets, training platforms, pre-trained models) have been widely adopted to ease the development of Deep Learning-based applications. However, if the third-party providers are untrusted, they can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Bhavani Thuraisingham

Data Poisoning (DP) is an effective attack that causes trained classifiers to misclassify their inputs. DP attacks significantly degrade a classifier's accuracy by covertly injecting attack samples into the training set. Broadly applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Xi Li , David J. Miller , Zhen Xiang , George Kesidis

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to the \emph{backdoor attack}, which intends to embed hidden backdoors in DNNs by poisoning training data. The attacked model behaves normally on benign samples, whereas its prediction will be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yiming Li , Yanjie Li , Yalei Lv , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Since 2014 when Szegedy et al. showed that carefully designed perturbations of the input can lead Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to wrongly classify its label, there has been an ongoing research to make DNNs more robust to such malicious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Muhammad Yaseen , Muneeb Aadil , Maria Sargsyan

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown excellent performance in graph-structured tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent research has shown that GCNs are vulnerable to a new type of threat called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jiazhu Dai , Haoyu Sun

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

Recent researches demonstrate that Deep Neural Networks (DNN) models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. The backdoored DNN model will behave maliciously when images containing backdoor triggers arrive. To date, existing backdoor attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mingfu Xue , Shifeng Ni , Yinghao Wu , Yushu Zhang , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables different parties to train a model together for high quality and strong privacy protection. In this scenario, individual participants may get compromised and perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Kaiyuan Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shengwei An , Yingqi Liu , Shiwei Feng , Guangyu Shen , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Semantic communication systems, which leverage Generative AI (GAI) to transmit semantic meaning rather than raw data, are poised to revolutionize modern communications. However, they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a type of poisoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Ziyang Wei , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Fangtian Zhong , Sohan Gyawali

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

Dataset Condensation (DC) is a data-efficient learning paradigm that synthesizes small yet informative datasets, enabling models to match the performance of full-data training. However, recent work exposes a critical vulnerability of DC to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 He Yang , Dongyi Lv , Song Ma , Wei Xi , Zhi Wang , Hanlin Gu , Yajie Wang

Recent research shows deep neural networks are vulnerable to different types of attacks, such as adversarial attack, data poisoning attack and backdoor attack. Among them, backdoor attack is the most cunning one and can occur in almost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jie Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Qidong Huang , Jing Liao , Weiming Zhang , Huamin Feng , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning models capable of processing graph-structured data, and they have demonstrated significant performance in a variety of real-world applications. Recent studies have found that GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jiazhu Dai , Haoyu Sun

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable results in various tasks. Recent studies reveal that graph backdoor attacks can poison the GNN model to predict test nodes with triggers attached as the target class. However, apart from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuxiang Zhang , Bin Ma , Enyan Dai

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

The black-box nature of deep neural networks (DNNs) facilitates attackers to manipulate the behavior of DNN through data poisoning. Being able to detect and mitigate poisoning attacks, typically categorized into backdoor and adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Junfeng Guo , Ting Wang , Cong Liu

Deep learning models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers inject malicious behavior through data poisoning and later exploit triggers to manipulate deployed models. To improve the stealth and effectiveness of backdoors, prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaolei Liu , Ming Yi , Kangyi Ding , Bangzhou Xin , Yixiao Xu , Li Yan , Chao Shen

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks (Trojans), where an attacker poisons the training set with backdoor triggers so that the neural network learns to classify test-time triggers to the attacker's designated target class.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Hang Wang , Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

In adversarial machine learning, new defenses against attacks on deep learning systems are routinely broken soon after their release by more powerful attacks. In this context, forensic tools can offer a valuable complement to existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Shawn Shan , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao