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With the rising popularity of machine learning and the ever increasing demand for computational power, there is a growing need for hardware optimized implementations of neural networks and other machine learning models. As the technology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Joseph Clements , Yingjie Lao

Trojan attacks on deep neural networks are both dangerous and surreptitious. Over the past few years, Trojan attacks have advanced from using only a single input-agnostic trigger and targeting only one class to using multiple,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Kien Do , Haripriya Harikumar , Hung Le , Dung Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Santu Rana , Dang Nguyen , Willy Susilo , Svetha Venkatesh

We present a novel methodology for neural network backdoor attacks. Unlike existing training-time attacks where the Trojaned network would respond to the Trojan trigger after training, our approach inserts a Trojan that will remain dormant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Feisi Fu , Panagiota Kiourti , Wenchao Li

Deep neural networks are being widely deployed for many critical tasks due to their high classification accuracy. In many cases, pre-trained models are sourced from vendors who may have disrupted the training pipeline to insert Trojan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Xiaoyu Zhang , Ajmal Mian , Rohit Gupta , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have found extensive applications in safety-critical artificial intelligence systems, such as autonomous driving and facial recognition systems. However, recent research has revealed their susceptibility to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lingxin Jin , Xianyu Wen , Wei Jiang , Jinyu Zhan

A recent trojan attack on deep neural network (DNN) models is one insidious variant of data poisoning attacks. Trojan attacks exploit an effective backdoor created in a DNN model by leveraging the difficulty in interpretability of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Yansong Gao , Chang Xu , Derui Wang , Shiping Chen , Damith C. Ranasinghe , Surya Nepal

Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies heavily on deep learning - a technology that is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications of AI, even in the safety-critical and high-risk domains. However, it is recently discovered that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jie Wang , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Naveed Akhtar

Neural network (NN) trojaning attack is an emerging and important attack model that can broadly damage the system deployed with NN models. Existing studies have explored the outsourced training attack scenario and transfer learning attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Yu Ji , Zixin Liu , Xing Hu , Peiqi Wang , Youhui Zhang

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to Trojan (or backdoor) attacks. Reverse-engineering methods can reconstruct the trigger and thus identify affected models. Existing reverse-engineering methods only consider input space constraints,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenting Wang , Kai Mei , Hailun Ding , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Despite their success and popularity, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable when facing backdoor attacks. This impedes their wider adoption, especially in mission critical applications. This paper tackles the problem of Trojan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xiaoling Hu , Xiao Lin , Michael Cogswell , Yi Yao , Susmit Jha , Chao Chen

Logic locking has been proposed to safeguard intellectual property (IP) during chip fabrication. Logic locking techniques protect hardware IP by making a subset of combinational modules in a design dependent on a secret key that is withheld…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hongye Xu , Dongfang Liu , Cory Merkel , Michael Zuzak

Deep neural networks are known to have security issues. One particular threat is the Trojan attack. It occurs when the attackers stealthily manipulate the model's behavior through Trojaned training samples, which can later be exploited.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Songzhu Zheng , Yikai Zhang , Hubert Wagner , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

Recent works found that deep neural networks (DNNs) can be fooled by adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding adversarial noise on clean inputs. The accuracy of DNNs on adversarial examples will decrease as the magnitude of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhanhao Hu , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Siyuan Cheng , Yingqi Liu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

System-on-chip (SoC) developers increasingly rely on pre-verified hardware intellectual property (IP) blocks acquired from untrusted third-party vendors. These IPs might contain hidden malicious functionalities or hardware Trojans to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Pravin Gaikwad , Jonathan Cruz , Prabuddha Chakraborty , Swarup Bhunia , Tamzidul Hoque

Due to significant improvements in performance in recent years, neural networks are currently used for an ever-increasing number of applications. However, neural networks have the drawback that their decisions are not readily interpretable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Christian Berghoff

Trojan attacks are sophisticated training-time attacks on neural networks that embed backdoor triggers which force the network to produce a specific output on any input which includes the trigger. With the increasing relevance of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xihe Gu , Greg Fields , Yaman Jandali , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar

With the popularity of deep learning (DL), artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied in many areas of human life. Neural network or artificial neural network (NN), the main technique behind DL, has been extensively studied to facilitate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Minhui Zou , Yang Shi , Chengliang Wang , Fangyu Li , WenZhan Song , Yu Wang

Recent studies have shown that neural networks are vulnerable to Trojan attacks, where a network is trained to respond to specially crafted trigger patterns in the inputs in specific and potentially malicious ways. This paper proposes MISA,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Panagiota Kiourti , Wenchao Li , Anirban Roy , Karan Sikka , Susmit Jha

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be susceptible to Trojan attacks. Neural Trojan is a type of targeted poisoning attack that embeds the backdoor into the victim and is activated by the trigger in the input space. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Diego Garcia-soto , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar
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