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cs.CR2025

Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving

Xuan Chen, Shiwei Feng, Zikang Xiong +6

Assessing the safety of autonomous driving (AD) systems against security threats, particularly backdoor attacks, is a stepping stone for real-world deployment. However, existing wo…

cs.CR2025

MGC: A Compiler Framework Exploiting Compositional Blindness in Aligned LLMs for Malware Generation

Lu Yan, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangzhe Xu +5

Large language models (LLMs) have democratized software development, reducing the expertise barrier for programming complex applications. This accessibility extends to malicious so…

cs.CR2025

SOFT: Selective Data Obfuscation for Protecting LLM Fine-tuning against Membership Inference Attacks

Kaiyuan Zhang, Siyuan Cheng, Hanxi Guo +8

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success and are widely adopted for diverse applications. However, fine-tuning these models often involves private or sensitive…

cs.CR2024

UNIT: Backdoor Mitigation via Automated Neural Distribution Tightening

Siyuan Cheng, Guangyu Shen, Kaiyuan Zhang +5

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated effectiveness in various fields. However, DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which inject a unique pattern, called trigger, into…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Elijah: Eliminating Backdoors Injected in Diffusion Models via Distribution Shift

Shengwei An, Sheng-Yen Chou, Kaiyuan Zhang +8

Diffusion models (DM) have become state-of-the-art generative models because of their capability to generate high-quality images from noises without adversarial training. However,…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

BEAGLE: Forensics of Deep Learning Backdoor Attack for Better Defense

Siyuan Cheng, Guanhong Tao, Yingqi Liu +8

Deep Learning backdoor attacks have a threat model similar to traditional cyber attacks. Attack forensics, a critical counter-measure for traditional cyber attacks, is hence of imp…

cs.CR2022★ 6 cited

Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Normally Trained Deep Learning Models

Guanhong Tao, Zhenting Wang, Siyuan Cheng +7

We conduct a systematic study of backdoor vulnerabilities in normally trained Deep Learning models. They are as dangerous as backdoors injected by data poisoning because both can b…

cs.CR2022★ 17 cited

FLIP: A Provable Defense Framework for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated Learning

Kaiyuan Zhang, Guanhong Tao, Qiuling Xu +8

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables different parties to train a model together for high quality and strong privacy protection. In this scenario…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

Confidence Matters: Inspecting Backdoors in Deep Neural Networks via Distribution Transfer

Tong Wang, Yuan Yao, Feng Xu +3

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. Exist…

cs.CR2022★ 3 cited

DECK: Model Hardening for Defending Pervasive Backdoors

Guanhong Tao, Yingqi Liu, Siyuan Cheng +5

Pervasive backdoors are triggered by dynamic and pervasive input perturbations. They can be intentionally injected by attackers or naturally exist in normally trained models. They…

cs.CR2021★ 20 cited

Backdoor Attack through Frequency Domain

Tong Wang, Yuan Yao, Feng Xu +3

Backdoor attacks have been shown to be a serious threat against deep learning systems such as biometric authentication and autonomous driving. An effective backdoor attack could en…