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most citedBackdoorBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Backdoor Learning

43 citations · 60 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CR2025

Class-Conditional Neural Polarizer: A Lightweight and Effective Backdoor Defense by Purifying Poisoned Features

Mingli Zhu, Shaokui Wei, Hongyuan Zha +1

Recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of deep neural networks to backdoor attacks, where models are manipulated to rely on embedded triggers within poisoned samples, de…

cs.CR2025

Revisiting the Auxiliary Data in Backdoor Purification

Shaokui Wei, Shanchao Yang, Jiayin Liu +1

Backdoor attacks occur when an attacker subtly manipulates machine learning models during the training phase, leading to unintended behaviors when specific triggers are present. To…

cs.CR2024

Backdoor Mitigation by Distance-Driven Detoxification

Shaokui Wei, Jiayin Liu, Hongyuan Zha

Backdoor attacks undermine the integrity of machine learning models by allowing attackers to manipulate predictions using poisoned training data. Such attacks lead to targeted misc…

cs.LG2024

BackdoorBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Analysis of Backdoor Learning

Baoyuan Wu, Hongrui Chen, Mingda Zhang +7

As an emerging approach to explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor learning has attracted increasing interest in recent years, and many seminal backdoor…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Unveiling and Mitigating Backdoor Vulnerabilities based on Unlearning Weight Changes and Backdoor Activeness

Weilin Lin, Li Liu, Shaokui Wei +2

The security threat of backdoor attacks is a central concern for deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, without poisoned data, unlearning models with clean data and then learning a…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Mitigating Backdoor Attack by Injecting Proactive Defensive Backdoor

Shaokui Wei, Hongyuan Zha, Baoyuan Wu

Data-poisoning backdoor attacks are serious security threats to machine learning models, where an adversary can manipulate the training dataset to inject backdoors into models. In…

cs.CV2024

BackdoorBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Analysis of Backdoor Learning

Baoyuan Wu, Hongrui Chen, Mingda Zhang +7

As an emerging and vital topic for studying deep neural networks' vulnerability (DNNs), backdoor learning has attracted increasing interest in recent years, and many seminal backdo…

cs.CR2024

WPDA: Frequency-based Backdoor Attack with Wavelet Packet Decomposition

Zhengyao Song, Yongqiang Li, Danni Yuan +3

This work explores an emerging security threat against deep neural networks (DNNs) based image classification, i.e., backdoor attack. In this scenario, the attacker aims to inject…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Defenses in Adversarial Machine Learning: A Survey

Baoyuan Wu, Shaokui Wei, Mingli Zhu +7

Adversarial phenomenon has been widely observed in machine learning (ML) systems, especially in those using deep neural networks, describing that ML systems may produce inconsisten…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Activation Gradient based Poisoned Sample Detection Against Backdoor Attacks

Danni Yuan, Shaokui Wei, Mingda Zhang +2

This work studies the task of poisoned sample detection for defending against data poisoning based backdoor attacks. Its core challenge is finding a generalizable and discriminativ…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

VDC: Versatile Data Cleanser based on Visual-Linguistic Inconsistency by Multimodal Large Language Models

Zihao Zhu, Mingda Zhang, Shaokui Wei +2

The role of data in building AI systems has recently been emphasized by the emerging concept of data-centric AI. Unfortunately, in the real-world, datasets may contain dirty sample…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Shared Adversarial Unlearning: Backdoor Mitigation by Unlearning Shared Adversarial Examples

Shaokui Wei, Mingda Zhang, Hongyuan Zha +1

Backdoor attacks are serious security threats to machine learning models where an adversary can inject poisoned samples into the training set, causing a backdoored model which pred…

cs.CR2023

Boosting Backdoor Attack with A Learnable Poisoning Sample Selection Strategy

Zihao Zhu, Mingda Zhang, Shaokui Wei +3

Data-poisoning based backdoor attacks aim to insert backdoor into models by manipulating training datasets without controlling the training process of the target model. Existing at…

cs.AI2023★ 7 cited

Neural Polarizer: A Lightweight and Effective Backdoor Defense via Purifying Poisoned Features

Mingli Zhu, Shaokui Wei, Hongyuan Zha +1

Recent studies have demonstrated the susceptibility of deep neural networks to backdoor attacks. Given a backdoored model, its prediction of a poisoned sample with trigger will be…

cs.AI2023

Enhancing Fine-Tuning Based Backdoor Defense with Sharpness-Aware Minimization

Mingli Zhu, Shaokui Wei, Li Shen +2

Backdoor defense, which aims to detect or mitigate the effect of malicious triggers introduced by attackers, is becoming increasingly critical for machine learning security and int…

stat.ML2023

Mean Parity Fair Regression in RKHS

Shaokui Wei, Jiayin Liu, Bing Li +1

We study the fair regression problem under the notion of Mean Parity (MP) fairness, which requires the conditional mean of the learned function output to be constant with respect t…

cs.LG2022★ 43 cited

BackdoorBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Backdoor Learning

Baoyuan Wu, Hongrui Chen, Mingda Zhang +4

Backdoor learning is an emerging and vital topic for studying deep neural networks' vulnerability (DNNs). Many pioneering backdoor attack and defense methods are being proposed, su…