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Recent studies have exposed that GNNs are vulnerable to several adversarial attacks, among which backdoor attack is one of the toughest. Similar to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), backdoor attacks in GNNs lie in the fact that the attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiale Zhang , Chengcheng Zhu , Bosen Rao , Hao Sui , Xiaobing Sun , Bing Chen , Chunyi Zhou , Shouling Ji

Deep neural networks for image classification are well-known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. One such attack that has garnered recent attention is the adversarial backdoor attack, which has demonstrated the capability to perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Glenn Dawson , Muhammad Umer , Robi Polikar

Vision-Language models like CLIP have been shown to be highly effective at linking visual perception and natural language understanding, enabling sophisticated image-text capabilities, including strong retrieval and zero-shot classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Naman Deep Singh , Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Backdoor attack is a powerful attack algorithm to deep learning model. Recently, GNN's vulnerability to backdoor attack has been proved especially on graph classification task. In this paper, we propose the first backdoor detection and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Bingchen Jiang , Zhao Li

Malicious clients can attack federated learning systems using malicious data, including backdoor samples, during the training phase. The compromised global model will perform well on the validation dataset designed for the task, but a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Chen Wu , Xian Yang , Sencun Zhu , Prasenjit Mitra

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in a variety of tasks over the last decade, such as autonomous driving, face recognition, and medical diagnosis. However, prior works show that deep neural networks are easily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Jiyang Guan , Zhuozhuo Tu , Ran He , Dacheng Tao

A backdoor attack in deep learning inserts a hidden backdoor in the model to trigger malicious behavior upon specific input patterns. Existing detection approaches assume a metric space (for either the original inputs or their latent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xiaoxing Mo , Yechao Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Wei Luo , Nan Sun , Shengshan Hu , Shang Gao , Yang Xiang

Backdoor attacks have been widely studied to hide the misclassification rules in the normal models, which are only activated when the model is aware of the specific inputs (i.e., the trigger). However, despite their success in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Liang Chen , Qibiao Peng , Jintang Li , Yang Liu , Jiawei Chen , Yong Li , Zibin Zheng

Transfer learning from pre-trained encoders has become essential in modern machine learning, enabling efficient model adaptation across diverse tasks. However, this combination of pre-training and downstream adaptation creates an expanded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yechao Zhang , Yuxuan Zhou , Tianyu Li , Minghui Li , Shengshan Hu , Wei Luo , Leo Yu Zhang

Pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, particularly when fine-tuned on large, domain-relevant datasets. However, they remain vulnerable to backdoor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Anindya Sundar Das , Kangjie Chen , Monowar Bhuyan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary manipulates a small portion of training data such that the victim model predicts normally on the benign samples but classifies the triggered samples as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yinghua Gao , Yiming Li , Xueluan Gong , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia , Qian Wang

Deep Learning-based image synthesis techniques have been applied in healthcare research for generating medical images to support open research. Training generative adversarial neural networks (GAN) usually requires large amounts of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ruinan Jin , Xiaoxiao Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison training data to implant backdoor into the victim model. Current backdoor defenses on poisoned data often suffer from high computational costs or low…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Binyan Xu , Fan Yang , Xilin Dai , Di Tang , Kehuan Zhang

The increasing importance of both deep neural networks (DNNs) and cloud services for training them means that bad actors have more incentive and opportunity to insert backdoors to alter the behavior of trained models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Backdoor attack is a new AI security risk that has emerged in recent years. Drawing on the previous research of adversarial attack, we argue that the backdoor attack has the potential to tap into the model learning process and improve model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Shangxi Wu , Qiuyang He , Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang

Backdoor attacks are an important type of adversarial threat against deep neural network classifiers, wherein test samples from one or more source classes will be (mis)classified to the attacker's target class when a backdoor pattern is…

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

Federated learning security research has predominantly focused on backdoor threats from a minority of malicious clients that intentionally corrupt model updates. This paper challenges this paradigm by investigating a more pervasive and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Haodong Zhao , Jinming Hu , Gongshen Liu

Despite recent progress in backdoor attacks, existing methods remain susceptible to post-training defenses that erase the backdoor through fine-tuning or pruning. We revisit the core objectives of backdoor attacks and derive principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Qiyuan Wang , Yao Li , Raymond K. W. Wong

Object detection is the foundation of various critical computer-vision tasks such as segmentation, object tracking, and event detection. To train an object detector with satisfactory accuracy, a large amount of data is required. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hua Ma , Yinshan Li , Yansong Gao , Zhi Zhang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Anmin Fu , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Nepal Surya , Derek Abbott

While real-world applications of reinforcement learning are becoming popular, the security and robustness of RL systems are worthy of more attention and exploration. In particular, recent works have revealed that, in a multi-agent RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Junfeng Guo , Ang Li , Cong Liu