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  1. Computer Science › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

    Quarantine: Sparsity Can Uncover the Trojan Attack Trigger for Free

    Chen, Zhang, Zhang, Chang, Liu and Wang · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    The paper uses sparsity and the lottery ticket hypothesis to detect Trojan-poisoned neural networks, isolating a sparse subnetwork that carries the trigger and then recovering the trigger from it.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper observes that features tied to a Trojan trigger hold up much better under network pruning than normal (benign) features do.“Our crucial observation is that the Trojan features are significantly more stable to network pruning than benign features.”

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