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Textual backdoor attacks present a substantial security risk to Large Language Models (LLM). It embeds carefully chosen triggers into a victim model at the training stage, and makes the model erroneously predict inputs containing the same…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xinglin Li , Xianwen He , Yao Li , Minhao Cheng

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

Recent studies show that text to image (T2I) diffusion models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a trigger in the input prompt can steer generation toward harmful or unintended content. Beyond the trigger token itself, backdoor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Oscar Chew , Po-Yi Lu , Jayden Lin , Kuan-Hao Huang , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Recent advances in large text-conditional diffusion models have revolutionized image generation by enabling users to create realistic, high-quality images from textual prompts, significantly enhancing artistic creation and visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ali Naseh , Jaechul Roh , Eugene Bagdasarian , Amir Houmansadr

Backdoor attacks implant hidden behaviors into models by poisoning training data or modifying the model directly. These attacks aim to maintain high accuracy on benign inputs while causing misclassification when a specific trigger is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianyao Yin , Luca Arnaboldi , Honglong Chen , Pascal Berrang , Mark Ryan

Text-to-image diffusion models excel at translating language prompts into photorealistic images by implicitly grounding textual concepts through their cross-modal attention mechanisms. Recent multi-modal diffusion transformers extend this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chaehyun Kim , Heeseong Shin , Eunbeen Hong , Heeji Yoon , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

Despite significant advancements in computer vision, semantic segmentation models may be susceptible to backdoor attacks. These attacks, involving hidden triggers, aim to cause the models to misclassify instances of the victim class as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Zirui Gong , Yanjun Zhang , Shang Gao , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Leo Zhang

Semantic segmentation models are widely deployed in safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks remains largely underexplored. Prior segmentation backdoor studies transfer threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Guangsheng Zhang , Huan Tian , Leo Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Ming Ding , Wanlei Zhou , Bo Liu

Backdoor attacks are rapidly emerging threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). In the backdoor attack scenario, attackers usually implant the backdoor into the target model by manipulating the training dataset or training process. Then, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nan Zhong , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

When a small number of poisoned samples are injected into the training dataset of a deep neural network, the network can be induced to exhibit malicious behavior during inferences, which poses potential threats to real-world applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Haoheng Lan , Jindong Gu , Philip Torr , Hengshuang Zhao

Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where malicious modifications to the training data cause the model to generate unintended outputs when specific triggers are present. While classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Abha Jha , Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan , Matthew Salaway , Atharva Sandeep Bhide , Duygu Nur Yaldiz

The rapid advancement of generative AI highlights the importance of text-to-image (T2I) security, particularly with the threat of backdoor poisoning. Timely disclosure and mitigation of security vulnerabilities in T2I models are crucial for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chongye Guo , Jinhu Fu , Junfeng Fang , Kun Wang , Guorui Feng

In recent years, text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have gained significant attention for their ability to generate high quality images reflecting text prompts. However, their growing popularity has also led to the emergence of backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shengfang Zhai , Jiajun Li , Yue Liu , Huanran Chen , Zhihua Tian , Wenjie Qu , Qingni Shen , Ruoxi Jia , Yinpeng Dong , Jiaheng Zhang

Text-to-image (T2I) models can be maliciously used to generate harmful content such as sexually explicit, unfaithful, and misleading or Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images. Previous attacks largely depend on the availability of the diffusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiachen Ma , Yijiang Li , Zhiqing Xiao , Anda Cao , Jie Zhang , Chao Ye , Junbo Zhao

Backdoor attacks significantly compromise the security of large language models by triggering them to output specific and controlled content. Currently, triggers for textual backdoor attacks fall into two categories: fixed-token triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jingyi Zheng , Tianyi Hu , Tianshuo Cong , Xinlei He

Backdoor attacks are a kind of insidious security threat against machine learning models. After being injected with a backdoor in training, the victim model will produce adversary-specified outputs on the inputs embedded with predesigned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Fanchao Qi , Mukai Li , Yangyi Chen , Zhengyan Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Yasheng Wang , Maosong Sun

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) has led to an increased presence of AI-generated images in daily life. However, biased T2I models can generate content with specific tendencies, potentially influencing people's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Huayang Huang , Xiangye Jin , Jiaxu Miao , Yu Wu

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated strong generation ability, but their potential to generate unsafe content raises significant safety concerns. Existing inference-time defense methods typically perform category-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Binhong Tan , Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang

This paper investigates backdoor attacks in image-oriented semantic communications. The threat of backdoor attacks on symbol reconstruction in semantic communication (SemCom) systems has received limited attention. Previous research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jialin Wan , Jinglong Shen , Nan Cheng , Zhisheng Yin , Yiliang Liu , Wenchao Xu , Xuemin , Shen

The backdoor attack poses a new security threat to deep neural networks. Existing backdoor often relies on visible universal trigger to make the backdoored model malfunction, which are not only usually visually suspicious to human but also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiangqi Wang , Mingfu Xue , Kewei Chen , Jing Xu , Wenmao Liu , Leo Yu Zhang , Yushu Zhang