English
Related papers

Related papers: BehaviorGuard: Online Backdoor Defense for Deep Re…

200 papers

Visual language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in image captioning tasks, yet recent studies have found they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Attackers can inject undetectable perturbations into the data during inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuhan Xu , Siyuan Liang , Hongling Zheng , Aishan Liu , Xinbiao Wang , Yong Luo , Fu Lin , Leszek Rutkowski , Dacheng Tao

With the success of deep learning algorithms in various domains, studying adversarial attacks to secure deep models in real world applications has become an important research topic. Backdoor attacks are a form of adversarial attacks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Aniruddha Saha , Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

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

The introduction of robust optimisation has pushed the state-of-the-art in defending against adversarial attacks. Notably, the state-of-the-art projected gradient descent (PGD)-based training method has been shown to be universally and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ezekiel Soremekun , Sakshi Udeshi , Sudipta Chattopadhyay

The goal of federated learning (FL) is to train one global model by aggregating model parameters updated independently on edge devices without accessing users' private data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor attacks where a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yein Kim , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in autonomous cyber defence agents trained to defend computer networks using deep reinforcement learning. These agents are typically trained in cyber gym environments using dense, highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Elizabeth Bates , Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis

Backdoor (Trojan) attacks are emerging threats against deep neural networks (DNN). A DNN being attacked will predict to an attacker-desired target class whenever a test sample from any source class is embedded with a backdoor pattern; while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Xi Li , Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

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

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

We demonstrate a backdoor attack on a deep neural network used for regression. The backdoor attack is localized based on training-set data poisoning wherein the mislabeled samples are surrounded by correctly labeled ones. We demonstrate how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Xi Li , George Kesidis , David J. Miller , Vladimir Lucic

Deep anomaly detection on sequential data has garnered significant attention due to the wide application scenarios. However, deep learning-based models face a critical security threat - their vulnerability to backdoor attacks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 He Cheng , Shuhan Yuan

Dynamic link prediction (DLP) makes graph prediction based on historical information. Since most DLP methods are highly dependent on the training data to achieve satisfying prediction performance, the quality of the training data is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jinyin Chen , Haiyang Xiong , Haibin Zheng , Jian Zhang , Guodong Jiang , Yi Liu

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved significant breakthroughs in various tasks. However, most DRL algorithms suffer a problem of generalizing the learned policy which makes the learning performance largely affected even by minor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Zhengyao Jiang , Shan Luo

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable generation capability. However, their training generally requires huge computational resources and large-scale datasets. To solve these, recent studies empower DMs with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hao Fang , Xiaohang Sui , Hongyao Yu , Kuofeng Gao , Jiawei Kong , Sijin Yu , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

Contrastive learning has become a leading self- supervised approach to representation learning across domains, including vision, multimodal settings, graphs, and federated learning. However, recent studies have shown that contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Simi D Kuniyilh , Rita Machacy

We propose a novel benchmark environment for Safe Reinforcement Learning focusing on aquatic navigation. Aquatic navigation is an extremely challenging task due to the non-stationary environment and the uncertainties of the robotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Enrico Marchesini , Davide Corsi , Alessandro Farinelli

Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved a great success in various computer vision tasks, it is recently found that they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we focus on the so-called \textit{backdoor attack},…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hao Cheng , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin

Large visual language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated excellent instruction-following capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to stealthy backdoor attacks when finetuned using contaminated data. Existing backdoor defense techniques are usually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuan Xun , Siyuan Liang , Xiaojun Jia , Xinwei Liu , Xiaochun Cao

Backdoor attacks compromise the integrity and reliability of machine learning models by embedding a hidden trigger during the training process, which can later be activated to cause unintended misbehavior. We propose a novel backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Felix Hsieh , Huy H. Nguyen , AprilPyone MaungMaung , Dmitrii Usynin , Isao Echizen

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 malicious actions leading to failures or malicious…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jing Fang , Saihao Yan , Xueyu Yin , Yinbo Yu , Chunwei Tian , Jiajia Liu