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most citedRethinking the Vulnerability of Concept Erasure and a New Method

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cs.LG2025

Embedding Hidden Adversarial Capabilities in Pre-Trained Diffusion Models

Lucas Beerens, Desmond J. Higham

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiri…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking the Vulnerability of Concept Erasure and a New Method

Alex D. Richardson, Kaicheng Zhang, Lucas Beerens +1

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models has raised significant privacy and security concerns, particularly regarding the generation of copyrighted or harmful images. In…

cs.LG2024

Deceptive Diffusion: Generating Synthetic Adversarial Examples

Lucas Beerens, Catherine F. Higham, Desmond J. Higham

We introduce the concept of deceptive diffusion -- training a generative AI model to produce adversarial images. Whereas a traditional adversarial attack algorithm aims to perturb…

cs.CV2023

Vulnerability Analysis of Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition to Adversarial Attacks

Lucas Beerens, Desmond J. Higham

Recent advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) have been driven by transformer-based models. OCR systems are critical in numerous high-stakes domains, yet their vulnera…

cs.AI2023

Adversarial Ink: Componentwise Backward Error Attacks on Deep Learning

Lucas Beerens, Desmond J. Higham

Deep neural networks are capable of state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks. However, they are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- small perturbation…