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Diffusion models (DMs) are advanced deep learning models that achieved state-of-the-art capability on a wide range of generative tasks. However, recent studies have shown their vulnerability regarding backdoor attacks, in which backdoored…

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Due to the high cost of training, large model (LM) practitioners commonly use pretrained models downloaded from untrusted sources, which could lead to owning compromised models. In-context learning is the ability of LMs to perform multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Aitor Urbieta

Adversarial transferability remains a critical challenge in evaluating the robustness of deep neural networks. In security-critical applications, transferability enables black-box attacks without access to model internals, making it a key…

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Self-supervised and multimodal vision encoders learn strong visual representations that are widely adopted in downstream vision tasks and large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, downstream users often rely on third-party pretrained…

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Recent deep-learning-based compression methods have achieved superior performance compared with traditional approaches. However, deep learning models have proven to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where some specific trigger patterns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

As deep neural networks and the datasets used to train them get larger, the default approach to integrating them into research and commercial projects is to download a pre-trained model and fine tune it. But these models can have uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

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

Object detectors, which are widely used in real-world applications, are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. This vulnerability arises because many users rely on datasets or pre-trained models provided by third parties due to constraints on data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhiying Li , Zhi Liu , Guanggang Geng , Shreyank N Gowda , Shuyuan Lin , Jian Weng , Xiaobo Jin

Backdoor attacks on deep learning represent a recent threat that has gained significant attention in the research community. Backdoor defenses are mainly based on backdoor inversion, which has been shown to be generic, model-agnostic, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Xiaoyun Xu , Zhuoran Liu , Stefanos Koffas , Shujian Yu , Stjepan Picek

Face signatures, including size, shape, texture, skin tone, eye color, appearance, and scars/marks, are widely used as discriminative, biometric information for access control. Despite recent advancements in facial recognition systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jennifer Hamblin , Kshitij Nikhal , Benjamin S. Riggan

Code models are increasingly adopted in software development but remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks via poisoned training data. Existing backdoor attacks on code models face a fundamental trade-off between transferability and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shuyu Chang , Haiping Huang , Yanjun Zhang , Yujin Huang , Fu Xiao , Leo Yu Zhang

Backdoor attacks (BAs) are an emerging threat to deep neural network classifiers. A victim classifier will predict to an attacker-desired target class whenever a test sample is embedded with the same backdoor pattern (BP) that was used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Text-to-image synthesis has made significant progress, benefiting from the strong generative capabilities of diffusion models. However, these models struggle to achieve precise text-to-image alignment within cross-attention maps during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shipeng Cao , Biao Qian , Haipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

As powerful generative models, text-to-image diffusion models have recently been explored for discriminative tasks. A line of research focuses on adapting a pre-trained diffusion model to semantic segmentation without any further training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Benyuan Meng , Qianqian Xu , Zitai Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Longtao Huang , Qingming Huang

Backdoor attacks threaten the deep learning supply chain by poisoning a small fraction of the training data so that a model behaves normally on clean inputs but misclassifies trigger-carrying inputs to an attacker-chosen target class.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yi Yang , Jinyang Huang , Binbin Liu , Feng-Qi Cui , Xiaokang Zhou , Zhi Liu , Jie Zhang , Meng Li

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have revolutionized image generation, enabling the synthesis of highly detailed visuals from textual descriptions. However, these models may inadvertently generate inappropriate content, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Linlin Wang , Xin Yu , Longxiang Gao , Wanlei Zhou

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative frameworks, excelling in producing high-quality multi-modal samples. However, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks, where backdoored models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Vu Tuan Truong , Long Bao Le

In recent years, neural backdoor attack has been considered to be a potential security threat to deep learning systems. Such systems, while achieving the state-of-the-art performance on clean data, perform abnormally on inputs with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Anh Nguyen , Anh Tran

Whilst adversarial attack detection has received considerable attention, it remains a fundamentally challenging problem from two perspectives. First, while threat models can be well-defined, attacker strategies may still vary widely within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Nathan Drenkow , Neil Fendley , Philippe Burlina

Deep neural networks (DNNs) remain critically vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing post-training detectors often require clean or surrogate data, gradients, or iterative trigger reconstruction, leading to high computational costs and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yinbo Yu , Xueyu Yin , Jing Fang , Chunwei Tian , Qi Zhu , Jiajia Liu , Daoqiang Zhang