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Hardware Fuzzing emerged as one of the crucial techniques for finding security flaws in modern hardware designs by testing a wide range of input scenarios. One of the main challenges is creating high-quality input seeds that maximize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce high-quality images but are challenging to train. They need careful regularization, vast amounts of compute, and expensive hyper-parameter sweeps. We make significant headway on these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Axel Sauer , Kashyap Chitta , Jens Müller , Andreas Geiger

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to inputs. Recently different attacks and strategies have been proposed, but how to generate adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tao Bai , Jun Zhao , Jinlin Zhu , Shoudong Han , Jiefeng Chen , Bo Li , Alex Kot

In this paper, we introduce Logic Tensor Network-Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network (LTN-GAN), a novel framework that enhances Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by incorporating Logic Tensor Networks (LTNs) to enforce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

Deep Learning-based image synthesis techniques have been applied in healthcare research for generating medical images to support open research. Training generative adversarial neural networks (GAN) usually requires large amounts of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ruinan Jin , Xiaoxiao Li

Recent improvements in generative adversarial network (GAN) training techniques prove that progressively training a GAN drastically stabilizes the training and improves the quality of outputs produced. Adding layers after the previous ones…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Manan Oza , Himanshu Vaghela , Kriti Srivastava

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model robustness by leveraging adversarial examples for training. However, most AT methods are in face of expensive time and computational cost for calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Deep Learning systems (DL) based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are more and more used in various aspects of our life, including unmanned vehicles, speech processing, and robotics. However, due to the limited dataset and the dependence on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Pengcheng Zhang , Qiyin Dai , Patrizio Pelliccione

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are formulated as minimax game problems, whereby generators attempt to approach real data distributions by virtue of adversarial learning against discriminators. The intrinsic problem complexity poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yuesong Tian , Li Shen , Li Shen , Guinan Su , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Fuzz testing is crucial for identifying software vulnerabilities, with coverage-guided grey-box fuzzers like AFL and Angora excelling in broad detection. However, as the need for targeted detection grows, directed grey-box fuzzing (DGF) has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yijiang Xu , Hongrui Jia , Liguo Chen , Xin Wang , Zhengran Zeng , Yidong Wang , Qing Gao , Jindong Wang , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Zhonghai Wu

We present a continual learning approach for generative adversarial networks (GANs), by designing and leveraging parameter-efficient feature map transformations. Our approach is based on learning a set of global and task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Sakshi Varshney , Vinay Kumar Verma , Srijith P K , Lawrence Carin , Piyush Rai

Mutation-based fuzzing has become one of the most common vulnerability discovery solutions over the last decade. Fuzzing can be optimized when targeting specific programs, and given that, some studies have employed online optimization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yuki Koike , Hiroyuki Katsura , Hiromu Yakura , Yuma Kurogome

Starting with a random initial seed, fuzzers search for inputs that trigger bugs or vulnerabilities. However, fuzzers often fail to generate inputs for program paths guarded by restrictive branch conditions. In this paper, we show that by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Seemanta Saha , Laboni Sarker , Md Shafiuzzaman , Chaofan Shou , Albert Li , Ganesh Sankaran , Tevfik Bultan

Fuzzing has become one of the most popular techniques to identify bugs in software. To improve the fuzzing process, a plethora of techniques have recently appeared in academic literature. However, evaluating and comparing these techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 David Paaßen , Sebastian Surminski , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the most popular image generation models that have achieved remarkable progress on various computer vision tasks. However, training instability is still one of the open problems for all GAN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Ziqiang Li , Pengfei Xia , Rentuo Tao , Hongjing Niu , Bin Li

Fuzzing is a commonly used technique designed to test software by automatically crafting program inputs. Currently, the most successful fuzzing algorithms emphasize simple, low-overhead strategies with the ability to efficiently monitor…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-20 William Drozd , Michael D. Wagner

We study two important concepts in adversarial deep learning---adversarial training and generative adversarial network (GAN). Adversarial training is the technique used to improve the robustness of discriminator by combining adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a recent advancement in unsupervised machine learning. They are a cat-and-mouse game between two neural networks: [1] a discriminator network which learns to validate whether a sample is real or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Olivia Curtis , Tereasa G. Brainerd

We propose a new active learning by query synthesis approach using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). Different from regular active learning, the resulting algorithm adaptively synthesizes training instances for querying to increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Jia-Jie Zhu , José Bento

Fuzzing is the process of finding security vulnerabilities in input-processing code by repeatedly testing the code with modified inputs. In this paper, we formalize fuzzing as a reinforcement learning problem using the concept of Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Konstantin Böttinger , Patrice Godefroid , Rishabh Singh