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As the capacity of deep neural networks (DNNs) increases, their need for huge amounts of data significantly grows. A common practice is to outsource the training process or collect more data over the Internet, which introduces the risks of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Soroush Hashemifar , Saeed Parsa , Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), so that the attacked models perform well on benign samples, whereas their predictions will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made tremendous progress in the past ten years and have been applied in various critical applications. However, recent studies have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xinrui Liu , Yajie Wang , Yu-an Tan , Kefan Qiu , Yuanzhang Li

Backdoor attacks have been shown to be a serious security threat against deep learning models, and detecting whether a given model has been backdoored becomes a crucial task. Existing defenses are mainly built upon the observation that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Tong Wang , Yuan Yao , Feng Xu , Miao Xu , Shengwei An , Ting Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden features (patterns) trained to a normal model, which is only activated by some specific input (called triggers), trick the model into producing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shaofeng Li , Minhui Xue , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Haojin Zhu , Xinpeng Zhang

Backdoor attacks pose a significant security vulnerability for deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling them to operate normally on clean inputs but manipulate predictions when specific trigger patterns occur. Currently, post-training backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yanghao Su , Jie Zhang , Ting Xu , Tianwei Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

With the broad application of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor attacks have gradually attracted attention. Backdoor attacks are insidious, and poisoned models perform well on benign samples and are only triggered when given specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Chang Yue , Peizhuo Lv , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen

Recently, backdoor attacks pose a new security threat to the training process of deep neural networks (DNNs). Attackers intend to inject hidden backdoors into DNNs, such that the attacked model performs well on benign samples, whereas its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Yuezun Li , Yiming Li , Baoyuan Wu , Longkang Li , Ran He , Siwei Lyu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Previous works have shown it extremely challenging to unlearn the undesired backdoor behavior from the network, since the entire network can be affected by the backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Haotao Wang , Junyuan Hong , Aston Zhang , Jiayu Zhou , Zhangyang Wang

This paper proposes a data-efficient detection method for deep neural networks against backdoor attacks under a black-box scenario. The proposed approach is motivated by the intuition that features corresponding to triggers have a higher…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Hao Fu , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Siddharth Garg , Farshad Khorrami

Recently, it has been shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to Trojan attacks, where an attacker can install a backdoor during training time to make the resultant model misidentify samples contaminated with a small trigger patch.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Haripriya Harikumar , Vuong Le , Santu Rana , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial manipulation and backdoor attacks. Backdoored models deviate from expected behavior on inputs with predefined triggers while retaining performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 M. Caner Tol , Saad Islam , Andrew J. Adiletta , Berk Sunar , Ziming Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have long been recognized as vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By providing poisoned training data in the fine-tuning process, the attacker can implant a backdoor into the victim model. This enables input samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Abdullah Arafat Miah , Yu Bi

Recently backdoor attack has become an emerging threat to the security of deep neural network (DNN) models. To date, most of the existing studies focus on backdoor attack against the uncompressed model; while the vulnerability of compressed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Huy Phan , Cong Shi , Yi Xie , Tianfang Zhang , Zhuohang Li , Tianming Zhao , Jian Liu , Yan Wang , Yingying Chen , Bo Yuan

With the surge of Machine Learning (ML), An emerging amount of intelligent applications have been developed. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated unprecedented performance across various fields such as medical diagnosis and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xinqiao Zhang , Huili Chen , Ke Huang , Farinaz Koushanfar

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

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

The success of a deep neural network (DNN) heavily relies on the details of the training scheme; e.g., training data, architectures, hyper-parameters, etc. Recent backdoor attacks suggest that an adversary can take advantage of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Nazmul Karim , Abdullah Al Arafat , Umar Khalid , Zhishan Guo , Naznin Rahnavard

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial input designs with limited noise budgets. While numerous successful attacks with subtle modifications to original input have been proposed, defense techniques against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Furkan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

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