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Connected acyclic graphs (trees) are data objects that hierarchically organize categories. Collections of trees arise in a diverse variety of fields, including evolutionary biology, public health, machine learning, social sciences and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-01 Maria Alejandra Valdez Cabrera , Amy D Willis , Armeen Taeb

An adversarial attack paradigm explores various scenarios for the vulnerability of deep learning models: minor changes of the input can force a model failure. Most of the state of the art frameworks focus on adversarial attacks for images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 I. Fursov , A. Zaytsev , N. Kluchnikov , A. Kravchenko , E. Burnaev

With the explosion in the availability of spatio-temporal tracking data in modern sports, there is an enormous opportunity to better analyse, learn and predict important events in adversarial group environments. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Tharindu Fernando , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes , Simon Denman

The increasing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks has led to the adoption of machine learning based classification techniques, at the core of cybersecurity systems. These techniques promise scale and accuracy, which traditional rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic , Joung Woo Ryu

Numerous works study black-box attacks on image classifiers. However, these works make different assumptions on the adversary's knowledge and current literature lacks a cohesive organization centered around the threat model. To systematize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Fnu Suya , Anshuman Suri , Tingwei Zhang , Jingtao Hong , Yuan Tian , David Evans

Network systems often contain vulnerabilities that remain unfixed in a network for various reasons, such as the lack of a patch or knowledge to fix them. With the presence of such residual vulnerabilities, the network administrator should…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Narges Khakpour , David Parker

The adoption of the distributed paradigm has allowed applications to increase their scalability, robustness and fault tolerance, but it has also complicated their structure, leading to an exponential growth of the applications'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Ioannis Giannakopoulos , Dimitrios Tsoumakos , Nectarios Koziris

The increasing prevalence of security attacks on software-intensive systems calls for new, effective methods for detecting and responding to these attacks. As one promising approach, game theory provides analytical tools for modeling the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Mingyue Zhang , Nianyu Li , Sridhar Adepu , Eunsuk Kang , Zhi Jin

Resource allocation is the process of optimizing the rare resources. In the area of security, how to allocate limited resources to protect a massive number of targets is especially challenging. This paper addresses this resource allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Xu Liu , Xiaoqiang Di , Jinqing Li , Huan Wang , Jianping Zhao , Huamin Yang , Ligang Cong

Our work targets at searching feasible adversarial perturbation to attack a classifier with high-dimensional categorical inputs in a domain-agnostic setting. This is intrinsically an NP-hard knapsack problem where the exploration space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hongyan Bao , Yufei Han , Yujun Zhou , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

Current threat models typically consider all possible ways an attacker can penetrate a system and assign probabilities to each path according to some metric (e.g. time-to-compromise). In this paper we discuss how this view hinders the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Luca Allodi , Sandro Etalle

A distribution inference attack aims to infer statistical properties of data used to train machine learning models. These attacks are sometimes surprisingly potent, but the factors that impact distribution inference risk are not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anshuman Suri , Yifu Lu , Yanjin Chen , David Evans

Organizations face an ever-changing threat landscape. They must continuously dedicate significant efforts to protect their assets, making their adoption of increased cybersecurity automation inevitable. However, process automation requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Quentin Goux , Nadira Lammari

Decision forests are classical models to efficiently make decision on complex inputs with multiple features. While the global structure of the trees or forests is public, sensitive information have to be protected during the evaluation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Slim Bettaieb , Loic Bidoux , Olivier Blazy , Baptiste Cottier , David Pointcheval

Graph-based classification methods are widely used for security and privacy analytics. Roughly speaking, graph-based classification methods include collective classification and graph neural network. Evading a graph-based classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

In recent times deep learning has been widely used for automating various security tasks in Cyber Domains. However, adversaries manipulate data in many situations and diminish the deployed deep learning model's accuracy. One notable example…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Shamik Sengupta

Protecting against multi-step attacks of uncertain duration and timing forces defenders into an indefinite, always ongoing, resource-intensive response. To effectively allocate resources, a defender must be able to analyze multi-step…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Alexander V. Outkin , Patricia V. Schulz , Timothy Schulz , Thomas D. Tarman , Ali Pinar

Quantifying predictive uncertainty is essential for safe and trustworthy real-world AI deployment. Yet, fully nonparametric estimation of conditional distributions remains challenging for multivariate targets. We propose Tomographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Takuya Kanazawa

Using Machine Learning systems in the real world can often be problematic, with inexplicable black-box models, the assumed certainty of imperfect measurements, or providing a single classification instead of a probability distribution. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jonathan S. Kent , David H. Menager

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies presents profound challenges to societal safety. As AI systems become more capable, accessible, and integrated into critical services, the dual nature of their potential is…

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