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Modern machine learning pipelines leverage large amounts of public data, making it infeasible to guarantee data quality and leaving models open to poisoning and backdoor attacks. Provably bounding model behavior under such attacks remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Philip Sosnin , Mark N. Müller , Maximilian Baader , Calvin Tsay , Matthew Wicker

Collecting training data from untrusted sources exposes machine learning services to poisoning adversaries, who maliciously manipulate training data to degrade the model accuracy. When trained on offline datasets, poisoning adversaries have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tianyu Pang , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

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

Deep learning-based object detection has become ubiquitous in the last decade due to its high accuracy in many real-world applications. With this growing trend, these models are interested in being attacked by adversaries, with most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Pham Phuc , Son Vuong , Khang Nguyen , Tuan Dang

Many recent studies have shown that deep neural models are vulnerable to adversarial samples: images with imperceptible perturbations, for example, can fool image classifiers. In this paper, we present the first type-specific approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Akshay Chaturvedi , Mark Dras , Utpal Garain

While machine learning (ML) models are being increasingly trusted to make decisions in different and varying areas, the safety of systems using such models has become an increasing concern. In particular, ML models are often trained on data…

While recent works have indicated that federated learning (FL) may be vulnerable to poisoning attacks by compromised clients, their real impact on production FL systems is not fully understood. In this work, we aim to develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage

SentiNet is a novel detection framework for localized universal attacks on neural networks. These attacks restrict adversarial noise to contiguous portions of an image and are reusable with different images -- constraints that prove useful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Edward Chou , Florian Tramèr , Giancarlo Pellegrino

The non-intrusive nature and high accuracy of face recognition algorithms have led to their successful deployment across multiple applications ranging from border access to mobile unlocking and digital payments. However, their vulnerability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Nilay Sanghvi , Sushant Kumar Singh , Akshay Agarwal , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Federated machine learning which enables resource constrained node devices (e.g., mobile phones and IoT devices) to learn a shared model while keeping the training data local, can provide privacy, security and economic benefits by designing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Gan Sun , Yang Cong , Jiahua Dong , Qiang Wang , Ji Liu

Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 William Xu , Chenyu Zhang , Yihan Wang , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Zuoqiu Liu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu , Yiwei Lu

Patch robustness certification is an emerging kind of defense technique against adversarial patch attacks with provable guarantees. There are two research lines: certified recovery and certified detection. They aim to label malicious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Qilin Zhou , Zhengyuan Wei , Haipeng Wang , Bo Jiang , W. K. Chan

Backdoor (trojan) attacks embed hidden, controllable behaviors into machine-learning models so that models behave normally on benign inputs but produce attacker-chosen outputs when a trigger is present. This survey reviews the rapidly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Zhang , Shang Gao

The unprecedented availability of training data fueled the rapid development of powerful neural networks in recent years. However, the need for such large amounts of data leads to potential threats such as poisoning attacks: adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Fabio De Gaspari , Dorjan Hitaj , Luigi V. Mancini

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

Deep learning techniques have enabled vast improvements in computer vision technologies. Nevertheless, these models are vulnerable to adversarial patch attacks which catastrophically impair performance. The physically realizable nature of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Dennis Jacob , Chong Xiang , Prateek Mittal

Learning reward models from pairwise comparisons is a fundamental component in a number of domains, including autonomous control, conversational agents, and recommendation systems, as part of a broad goal of aligning automated decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junlin Wu , Jiongxiao Wang , Chaowei Xiao , Chenguang Wang , Ning Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

While state-of-the-art diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation, concerns regarding their security persist. Earlier research highlighted DMs' vulnerability to data poisoning attacks, but these studies placed stricter requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhuoshi Pan , Yuguang Yao , Gaowen Liu , Bingquan Shen , H. Vicky Zhao , Ramana Rao Kompella , Sijia Liu

Deep neural networks have been widely used in many computer vision tasks. However, it is proved that they are susceptible to small, imperceptible perturbations added to the input. Inputs with elaborately designed perturbations that can fool…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Yusheng Zhao , Huanqian Yan , Xingxing Wei

Neural code models (NCMs) have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in code intelligence tasks. Meanwhile, the security of NCMs and NCMs-based systems has garnered increasing attention. In particular, NCMs are often trained on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Weisong Sun , Yuchen Chen , Mengzhe Yuan , Chunrong Fang , Zhenpeng Chen , Chong Wang , Yang Liu , Baowen Xu , Zhenyu Chen