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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

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

As the semiconductor industry has shifted to a fabless paradigm, the risk of hardware Trojans being inserted at various stages of production has also increased. Recently, there has been a growing trend toward the use of machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Rahul Vishwakarma , Amin Rezaei

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

While neural networks demonstrate stronger capabilities in pattern recognition nowadays, they are also becoming larger and deeper. As a result, the effort needed to train a network also increases dramatically. In many cases, it is more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuntao Liu , Yang Xie , Ankur Srivastava

The risk of hardware Trojans being inserted at various stages of chip production has increased in a zero-trust fabless era. To counter this, various machine learning solutions have been developed for the detection of hardware Trojans. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Rahul Vishwakarma , Amin Rezaei

Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time. In this work, we show that these training-time vulnerabilities extend to deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Panagiota Kiourti , Kacper Wardega , Susmit Jha , Wenchao Li

Neural network controllers are increasingly deployed in robotic systems for tasks such as trajectory tracking and pose stabilization. However, their reliance on potentially untrusted training pipelines or supply chains introduces…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Farbod Younesi , Walter Lucia , Amr Youssef

Recently, Deep Learning (DL), especially Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), develops rapidly and is applied to many tasks, such as image classification, face recognition, image segmentation, and human detection. Due to its superior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Wenshuo Li , Jincheng Yu , Xuefei Ning , Pengjun Wang , Qi Wei , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

Due to the current horizontal business model that promotes increasing reliance on untrusted third-party Intellectual Properties (IPs), CAD tools, and design facilities, hardware Trojan attacks have become a serious threat to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Jonathan Cruz , Pravin Gaikwad , Abhishek Nair , Prabuddha Chakraborty , Swarup Bhunia

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

Stealthy hardware Trojans (HTs) inserted during the fabrication of integrated circuits can bypass the security of critical infrastructures. Although researchers have proposed many techniques to detect HTs, several limitations exist,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Vasudev Gohil , Hao Guo , Satwik Patnaik , Jeyavijayan , Rajendran

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

Neuromorphic computing based on spiking neural networks (SNNs) is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering unique advantages in terms of low power consumption. However, the security…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Spyridon Raptis , Paul Kling , Ioannis Kaskampas , Ihsen Alouani , Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos

Chip manufacturing is a complex process, and to achieve a faster time to market, an increasing number of untrusted third-party tools and designs from around the world are being utilized. The use of these untrusted third party intellectual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kiran Thorat , Amit Hasan , Caiwen Ding , Zhijie Shi

The Hardware Trojan (HT) problem can be thought of as a continuous game between attackers and defenders, each striving to outsmart the other by leveraging any available means for an advantage. Machine Learning (ML) has recently played a key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Amin Sarihi , Peter Jamieson , Ahmad Patooghy , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy

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

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

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

Backdoor (trojan) attacks embed hidden, controllable behaviors into machine-learning models so that models behave normally on benign inputs but produce attacker-chosen outputs when a trigger is present. This survey reviews the rapidly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Zhang , Shang Gao
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