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most citedAdversarial Learning in Statistical Classification: A Comprehensive Review of Defenses Against Attacks

23 citations · 60 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Backdoor Mitigation by Correcting the Distribution of Neural Activations

Xi Li, Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller +1

Backdoor (Trojan) attacks are an important type of adversarial exploit against deep neural networks (DNNs), wherein a test instance is (mis)classified to the attacker's target clas…

cs.LG2023

Improved Activation Clipping for Universal Backdoor Mitigation and Test-Time Detection

Hang Wang, Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller +1

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks (Trojans), where an attacker poisons the training set with backdoor triggers so that the neural network learns to classify t…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

UMD: Unsupervised Model Detection for X2X Backdoor Attacks

Zhen Xiang, Zidi Xiong, Bo Li

Backdoor (Trojan) attack is a common threat to deep neural networks, where samples from one or more source classes embedded with a backdoor trigger will be misclassified to adversa…

cs.LG2022

Training set cleansing of backdoor poisoning by self-supervised representation learning

H. Wang, S. Karami, O. Dia +6

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 numbe…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

MM-BD: Post-Training Detection of Backdoor Attacks with Arbitrary Backdoor Pattern Types Using a Maximum Margin Statistic

Hang Wang, Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller +1

Backdoor attacks are an important type of adversarial threat against deep neural network classifiers, wherein test samples from one or more source classes will be (mis)classified t…

cs.CR2022★ 6 cited

Post-Training Detection of Backdoor Attacks for Two-Class and Multi-Attack Scenarios

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 emb…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Test-Time Detection of Backdoor Triggers for Poisoned Deep Neural Networks

Xi Li, Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller +1

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…

cs.CR2021

Detecting Backdoor Attacks Against Point Cloud Classifiers

Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller, Siheng Chen +2

Backdoor attacks (BA) are an emerging threat to deep neural network classifiers. A classifier being attacked will predict to the attacker's target class when a test sample from a s…

cs.LG2021

A BIC-based Mixture Model Defense against Data Poisoning Attacks on Classifiers

Xi Li, David J. Miller, Zhen Xiang +1

Data Poisoning (DP) is an effective attack that causes trained classifiers to misclassify their inputs. DP attacks significantly degrade a classifier's accuracy by covertly injecti…

cs.CR2021★ 6 cited

A Backdoor Attack against 3D Point Cloud Classifiers

Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller, Siheng Chen +2

Vulnerability of 3D point cloud (PC) classifiers has become a grave concern due to the popularity of 3D sensors in safety-critical applications. Existing adversarial attacks agains…

cs.CV2020

L-RED: Efficient Post-Training Detection of Imperceptible Backdoor Attacks without Access to the Training Set

Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller, George Kesidis

Backdoor attacks (BAs) are an emerging form of adversarial attack typically against deep neural network image classifiers. The attacker aims to have the classifier learn to classif…

cs.LG2020

Reverse Engineering Imperceptible Backdoor Attacks on Deep Neural Networks for Detection and Training Set Cleansing

Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller, George Kesidis

Backdoor data poisoning is an emerging form of adversarial attack usually against deep neural network image classifiers. The attacker poisons the training set with a relatively sma…

cs.LG2019★ 6 cited

Revealing Perceptible Backdoors, without the Training Set, via the Maximum Achievable Misclassification Fraction Statistic

Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller, Hang Wang +1

Recently, a backdoor data poisoning attack was proposed, which adds mislabeled examples to the training set, with an embedded backdoor pattern, aiming to have the classifier learn…

stat.ML2019

Notes on Margin Training and Margin p-Values for Deep Neural Network Classifiers

George Kesidis, David J. Miller, Zhen Xiang

We provide a new local class-purity theorem for Lipschitz continuous DNN classifiers. In addition, we discuss how to achieve classification margin for training samples. Finally, we…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

Detection of Backdoors in Trained Classifiers Without Access to the Training Set

Zhen Xiang, David J. Miller, George Kesidis

Recently, a special type of data poisoning (DP) attack targeting Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers, known as a backdoor, was proposed. These attacks do not seek to degrade clas…

cs.LG2019★ 23 cited

Adversarial Learning in Statistical Classification: A Comprehensive Review of Defenses Against Attacks

David J. Miller, Zhen Xiang, George Kesidis

There is great potential for damage from adversarial learning (AL) attacks on machine-learning based systems. In this paper, we provide a contemporary survey of AL, focused particu…

cs.CR2018★ 3 cited

A Mixture Model Based Defense for Data Poisoning Attacks Against Naive Bayes Spam Filters

David J. Miller, Xinyi Hu, Zhen Xiang +1

Naive Bayes spam filters are highly susceptible to data poisoning attacks. Here, known spam sources/blacklisted IPs exploit the fact that their received emails will be treated as (…