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Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models are widely adopted for their strong generative capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing attacks typically rely on fixed textual triggers and single-entity backdoor targets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianxin Chen , Wenbo Jiang , Hongqiao Chen , Zhirun Zheng , Cheng Huang

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

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

Backdoor attacks have severely threatened deep neural network (DNN) models in the past several years. These attacks can occur in almost every stage of the deep learning pipeline. Although the attacked model behaves normally on benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yangming Chen

This paper highlights vulnerabilities of deep learning-driven semantic communications to backdoor (Trojan) attacks. Semantic communications aims to convey a desired meaning while transferring information from a transmitter to its receiver.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Neural code models have been increasingly incorporated into software development processes. However, their susceptibility to backdoor attacks presents a significant security risk. The state-of-the-art understanding focuses on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junyao Ye , Zhen Li , Xi Tang , Shouhuai Xu , Deqing Zou , Zhongsheng Yuan

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

While text-to-image synthesis currently enjoys great popularity among researchers and the general public, the security of these models has been neglected so far. Many text-guided image generation models rely on pre-trained text encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image synthesis, but their reliance on large-scale data and open ecosystems introduces serious backdoor security risks. Existing defenses, particularly input-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zida Li , Jun Li , Yuzhe Sha , Ziqiang Li , Lizhi Xiong , Zhangjie Fu

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

Deep learning achieves outstanding results in many machine learning tasks. Nevertheless, it is vulnerable to backdoor attacks that modify the training set to embed a secret functionality in the trained model. The modified training samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Gorka Abad , Jing Xu , Stefanos Koffas , Behrad Tajalli , Stjepan Picek , Mauro Conti

A security threat to deep neural networks (DNN) is backdoor contamination, in which an adversary poisons the training data of a target model to inject a Trojan so that images carrying a specific trigger will always be classified into a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Di Tang , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Kehuan Zhang

With the help of conditioning mechanisms, the state-of-the-art diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in guided image generation, particularly in text-to-image synthesis. To gain a better understanding of the training process and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Shengfang Zhai , Yinpeng Dong , Qingni Shen , Shi Pu , Yuejian Fang , Hang Su

The growing dependence on machine learning in real-world applications emphasizes the importance of understanding and ensuring its safety. Backdoor attacks pose a significant security risk due to their stealthy nature and potentially serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ganghua Wang , Xun Xian , Jayanth Srinivasa , Ashish Kundu , Xuan Bi , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

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

Architectural backdoors pose an under-examined but critical threat to deep neural networks, embedding malicious logic directly into a model's computational graph. Unlike traditional data poisoning or parameter manipulation, architectural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Victoria Childress , Josh Collyer , Jodie Knapp

Self-supervised diffusion models learn high-quality visual representations via latent space denoising. However, their representation layer poses a distinct threat: unlike traditional attacks targeting generative outputs, its unconstrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiayao Wang , Yiping Zhang , Mohammad Maruf Hasan , Xiaoying Lei , Jiale Zhang , Junwu Zhu , Qilin Wu , Dongfang Zhao

While federated learning protects data privacy, it also makes the model update process vulnerable to long-term stealthy perturbations. Existing studies on backdoor attacks in federated learning mainly focus on trigger design or poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wang Jian , Shen Hong , Ke Wei , Liu Xue Hua

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat for training neural networks as they surreptitiously introduce hidden functionalities into a model. Such backdoors remain silent during inference on clean inputs, evading detection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lukas Struppek , Martin B. Hentschel , Clifton Poth , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance, but are also vulnerable to backdoor attacks whereby the adversary can manipulate the model's outputs through hidden triggers. Prior attacks primarily rely on single-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhiyuan Zhong , Zhen Sun , Yepang Liu , Xinlei He , Guanhong Tao
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