MergeGuard: Efficient Thwarting of Trojan Attacks in Machine Learning Models

Soheil Zibakhsh Shabgahi, Yaman Jandali, Farinaz Koushanfar

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 a…