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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Joseph Clements , Yingjie Lao

Most existing methods to detect backdoored machine learning (ML) models take one of the two approaches: trigger inversion (aka. reverse engineer) and weight analysis (aka. model diagnosis). In particular, the gradient-based trigger…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rui Zhu , Di Tang , Siyuan Tang , Guanhong Tao , Shiqing Ma , Xiaofeng Wang , Haixu Tang

Machine learning models in the wild have been shown to be vulnerable to Trojan attacks during training. Although many detection mechanisms have been proposed, strong adaptive attackers have been shown to be effective against them. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Dinuka Sahabandu , Arezoo Rajabi , Luyao Niu , Bo Li , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Radha Poovendran

Trojan attack on deep neural networks, also known as backdoor attack, is a typical threat to artificial intelligence. A trojaned neural network behaves normally with clean inputs. However, if the input contains a particular trigger, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Chong Fu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang , Peng Lin , Yanghe Feng , Jianwei Yin

Trojans are one of the most threatening network attacks currently. HTTP-based Trojan, in particular, accounts for a considerable proportion of them. Moreover, as the network environment becomes more complex, HTTP-based Trojan is more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiang Xie , Shuhao Li , Yongzheng Zhang , Xiaochun Yun , Jia Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are now the de facto choice for computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, their complexity and "black box" nature often renders the systems they're deployed in vulnerable to a range of security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chandramouli Amarnath , Aishwarya H. Balwani , Kwondo Ma , Abhijit Chatterjee

Text guided diffusion models are used by millions of users, but can be easily exploited to produce harmful content. Concept unlearning methods aim at reducing the models' likelihood of generating harmful content. Traditionally, this has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mansi , Avinash Kori , Francesca Toni , Soteris Demetriou

In this paper, we introduce the TrojAI software framework, an open source set of Python tools capable of generating triggered (poisoned) datasets and associated deep learning (DL) models with trojans at scale. We utilize the developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Kiran Karra , Chace Ashcraft , Neil Fendley

The rapid scaling of large vision pretrained models makes fine-tuning tasks more and more difficult on devices with low computational resources. We explore a new visual adaptation paradigm called separated tuning, which treats large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ningyuan Tang , Minghao Fu , Jianxin Wu

This paper proposes MergeGuard, a novel methodology for mitigation of AI Trojan attacks. Trojan attacks on AI models cause inputs embedded with triggers to be misclassified to an adversary's target class, posing a significant threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Soheil Zibakhsh Shabgahi , Yaman Jandali , Farinaz Koushanfar

In recent years, knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone of efficiently deployed machine learning, with labs and industries using knowledge distillation to train models that are inexpensive and resource-optimized. Trojan attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Leonard Tang , Tom Shlomi , Alexander Cai

A backdoor or Trojan attack is an important type of data poisoning attack against deep neural network (DNN) classifiers, wherein the training dataset is poisoned with a small number of samples that each possess the backdoor pattern (usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 H. Wang , S. Karami , O. Dia , H. Ritter , E. Emamjomeh-Zadeh , J. Chen , Z. Xiang , D. J. Miller , G. Kesidis

The commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) component based ecosystem provides an attractive system design paradigm due to the drastic reduction in development time and cost compared to custom solutions. However, it brings in a growing concern of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Mahmudul Hasan , Jonathan Cruz , Prabuddha Chakraborty , Swarup Bhunia , Tamzidul Hoque

Trojan attacks on deep neural networks are both dangerous and surreptitious. Over the past few years, Trojan attacks have advanced from using only a single input-agnostic trigger and targeting only one class to using multiple,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Kien Do , Haripriya Harikumar , Hung Le , Dung Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Santu Rana , Dang Nguyen , Willy Susilo , Svetha Venkatesh

A major security threat to an integrated circuit (IC) design is the Hardware Trojan attack which is a malicious modification of the design. Previously several papers have investigated into side-channel analysis to detect the presence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Samir R Katte , Keith E Fernandez

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming commonplace in critical applications, making their susceptibility to backdoor (trojan) attacks a significant problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel backdoor attack detection pipeline, detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Akash Vartak , Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

A critical problem in deep learning is that systems learn inappropriate biases, resulting in their inability to perform well on minority groups. This has led to the creation of multiple algorithms that endeavor to mitigate bias. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Robik Shrestha , Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Backdoor attacks impose a new threat in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where a backdoor is inserted into the neural network by poisoning the training dataset, misclassifying inputs that contain the adversary trigger. The major challenge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yue Wang , Wenqing Li , Esha Sarkar , Muhammad Shafique , Michail Maniatakos , Saif Eddin Jabari

Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies heavily on deep learning - a technology that is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications of AI, even in the safety-critical and high-risk domains. However, it is recently discovered that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jie Wang , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Naveed Akhtar

Network attacks have became increasingly more sophisticated and stealthy due to the advances in technologies and the growing sophistication of attackers. Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a type of attack that implement a wide range of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Abdullah H Alqahtani