Trojvit: Trojan insertion in vision transformers

M Zheng, Q Lou, L Jiang - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated the state-of-the-art performance in
various vision-related tasks. The success of ViTs motivates adversaries to perform backdoor …

You Are Catching My Attention: Are Vision Transformers Bad Learners under Backdoor Attacks?

Z Yuan, P Zhou, K Zou… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Vision Transformers (ViTs), which made a splash in the field of computer vision
(CV), have shaken the dominance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, in the …

Not all prompts are secure: A switchable backdoor attack against pre-trained vision transfomers

S Yang, J Bai, K Gao, Y Yang, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Given the power of vision transformers a new learning paradigm pre-training and then
prompting makes it more efficient and effective to address downstream visual recognition …

Designing robust transformers using robust kernel density estimation

X Han, T Ren, T Nguyen, K Nguyen… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Transformer-based architectures have recently exhibited remarkable successes across
different domains beyond just powering large language models. However, existing …

Transformers: A Security Perspective

BS Latibari, N Nazari, MA Chowdhury, KI Gubbi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Transformers architecture has recently emerged as a revolutionary paradigm in the field
of deep learning, particularly excelling in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and …

Highly Evasive Targeted Bit-Trojan on Deep Neural Networks

L Jin, W Jiang, J Zhan, X Wen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bit-Trojan attacks based on Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) have emerged as severe threats to Deep
Neural Networks (DNNs) deployed in safety-critical systems since they can inject Trojans …

[PDF][PDF] Robustify transformers with robust kernel density estimation

X Han, T Ren, TM Nguyen, K Nguyen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Recent advances in Transformer architecture have empowered its empirical success in
various tasks across different domains. However, existing works mainly focus on improving …

Data Poisoning-based Backdoor Attack Framework against Supervised Learning Rules of Spiking Neural Networks

L Jin, M Lin, W Jiang, J Zhan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15670, 2024 - arxiv.org
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), the third generation neural networks, are known for their
low energy consumption and high robustness. SNNs are developing rapidly and can …

Megatron: Evasive Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks against Vision Transformer

X Gong, B Tian, M Xue, S Li, Y Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Vision transformers have achieved impressive performance in various vision-related tasks,
but their vulnerability to backdoor attacks is under-explored. A handful of existing works …

An Effective and Resilient Backdoor Attack Framework against Deep Neural Networks and Vision Transformers

X Gong, B Tian, M Xue, Y Wu, Y Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models to
backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attacks arbitrarily set the trigger mask or use a …