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Recent studies have shown that cooperative multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (c-MADRL) is under the threat of backdoor attacks. Once a backdoor trigger is observed, it will perform abnormal actions leading to failures or malicious…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Yinbo Yu , Saihao Yan , Jiajia Liu

Backdoor attacks against pre-trained models (PTMs) have traditionally operated under an ``immediacy assumption,'' where malicious behavior manifests instantly upon trigger occurrence. This work revisits and challenges this paradigm by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zikang Ding , Haomiao Yang , Meng Hao , Wenbo Jiang , Kunlan Xiang , Runmeng Du , Yijing Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown notable success in various visual tasks. However, in terms of discriminability, SSL is still not on par with supervised learning (SL). This paper identifies a key issue, the ``crowding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeen Song , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun , Hui Xiong

Side Channel Analysis (SCA) presents a clear threat to privacy and security in modern computing systems. The vast majority of communications are secured through cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms are often provably-secure from a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Max Panoff , Honggang Yu , Haoqi Shan , Yier Jin

Deep learning models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries inject malicious functionality during training that activates on trigger inputs at inference time. Extensive research has focused on developing stealthy backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jeongjin Shin , Sangdon Park

Some of the threats in the dynamic environment include the unpredictability of the motion of objects and interferences to the robotic grasp. In such conditions the traditional supervised and reinforcement learning approaches are ill suited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ankit Shaw

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods via joint embedding architectures have proven remarkably effective at capturing semantically rich representations with strong clustering properties, magically in the absence of label supervision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xi Weng , Jianing An , Xudong Ma , Binhang Qi , Jie Luo , Xi Yang , Jin Song Dong , Lei Huang

Backdoor attacks pose a persistent security risk to deep neural networks (DNNs) due to their stealth and durability. While recent research has explored leveraging model unlearning mechanisms to enhance backdoor concealment, existing attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Baogang Song , Dongdong Zhao , Jianwen Xiang , Qiben Xu , Zizhuo Yu

Data-poisoning backdoor attacks are serious security threats to machine learning models, where an adversary can manipulate the training dataset to inject backdoors into models. In this paper, we focus on in-training backdoor defense, aiming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shaokui Wei , Hongyuan Zha , Baoyuan Wu

Backdoor attacks have emerged as a critical security threat against deep neural networks in recent years. The majority of existing backdoor attacks focus on targeted backdoor attacks, where trigger is strongly associated to specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yinghao Wu , Liyan Zhang

Back-door attack poses a severe threat to deep learning systems. It injects hidden malicious behaviors to a model such that any input stamped with a special pattern can trigger such behaviors. Detecting back-door is hence of pressing need.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Guangyu Shen , Yingqi Liu , Guanhong Tao , Shengwei An , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior performance compared to previous methods on various tasks, and often serve as the foundation models for many researches and services. However, the untrustworthy third-party LLMs may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hai Huang , Zhengyu Zhao , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

Within the realm of computer vision, self-supervised learning (SSL) pertains to training pre-trained image encoders utilizing a substantial quantity of unlabeled images. Pre-trained image encoders can serve as feature extractors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Qiannan Wang , Changchun Yin , Zhe Liu , Liming Fang , Run Wang , Chenhao Lin

Federated self-supervised learning (FSSL) enables collaborative training of self-supervised representation models without sharing raw unlabeled data. While it serves as a crucial paradigm for privacy-preserving learning, its security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiayao Wang , Yang Song , Zhendong Zhao , Jiale Zhang , Qilin Wu , Wenliang Yuan , Junwu Zhu , Dongfang Zhao

Dataset condensation aims to synthesize compact yet informative datasets that retain the training efficacy of full-scale data, offering substantial gains in efficiency. Recent studies reveal that the condensation process can be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 He Yang , Dongyi Lv , Song Ma , Wei Xi , Jizhong Zhao

Split Learning (SL) is a collaborative learning approach that improves privacy by keeping data on the client-side while sharing only the intermediate output with a server. However, the distributed nature of SL introduces new security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

The area of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) is experiencing increased implementation due to recent advancements in the AI (Artificial Intelligence) industry. However, this spike has prompted concerns regarding AI defense mechanisms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Orson Mengara

This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wenjing Wei , Farid Nait-Abdesselam , Alla Jammine

Inspired by the success of Self-supervised learning (SSL) in learning visual representations from unlabeled data, a few recent works have studied SSL in the context of continual learning (CL), where multiple tasks are learned sequentially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Li Yang , Sen Lin , Fan Zhang , Junshan Zhang , Deliang Fan

We propose a novel method for semi-supervised learning (SSL) based on data-driven distributionally robust optimization (DRO) using optimal transport metrics. Our proposed method enhances generalization error by using the unlabeled data to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Jose Blanchet , Yang Kang