Training a “Backdoor” in Your Machine Learning Model on Google Colab

Beware — A machine learning engineer could easily inject a backdoor in your machine learning model! Here’s how (with codes)!

Desmond Yeoh
Towards Data Science
9 min readAug 5, 2020

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Note: This post is for educational purposes only.

In this post, I would first explain what is a “backdoor” in machine learning. Then, we would learn how to build our own backdoor model in Google Colab. (Don’t worry, it’s just a simple image recognition model that can be trained in a…

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Software Engineer (Data Science) @ Shopee Singapore. Exploring machine learning infra & frameworks to help data scientists work better.