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Deep neural networks, costly to train and rich in intellectual property value, are increasingly threatened by model extraction attacks that compromise their confidentiality. Previous attacks have succeeded in reverse-engineering model…

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The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

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The multi-million dollar investment required for modern machine learning (ML) has made large ML models a prime target for theft. In response, the field of model stealing has emerged. Attacks based on physical side-channel information have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Peter Horvath , Ilia Shumailov , Lukasz Chmielewski , Lejla Batina , Yuval Yarom

Deep neural network (DNN) architecture based models have high expressive power and learning capacity. However, they are essentially a black box method since it is not easy to mathematically formulate the functions that are learned within…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as a powerful mechanism and are being increasingly deployed in real-world safety-critical domains. Despite the widespread success, their complex architecture makes proving any formal guarantees about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Saket Dingliwal , Divyansh Pareek , Jatin Arora

Edge offloading for deep neural networks (DNNs) can be adaptive to the input's complexity by using early-exit DNNs. These DNNs have side branches throughout their architecture, allowing the inference to end earlier in the edge. The branches…

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Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a training time attack that injects a trigger pattern into a small proportion of training data so as to control the model's prediction at the test time. Backdoor attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yige Li , Xixiang Lyu , Nodens Koren , Lingjuan Lyu , Bo Li , Xingjun Ma

Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) accross a wide range of applications, adversarial attacks against these models have proven to be an indisputable threat. Adversarial samples are crafted with a deliberate intention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Valentina Zantedeschi , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Ambrish Rawat

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as the time-delay neural network (TDNN), have shown their remarkable capability in learning speaker embedding. However, they meanwhile bring a huge computational cost in storage size, processing,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Rui Wang , Zhihua Wei , Haoran Duan , Shouling Ji , Yang Long , Zhen Hong

Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to reduce the computational burden of mobile devices and decrease the end-to-end inference latency in edge computing scenarios. While distributed DNNs have been studied, to the best of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Milin Zhang , Mohammad Abdi , Jonathan Ashdown , Francesco Restuccia

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are powerful tools for solving sequence-based problems, but their efficacy and execution time are dependent on the size of the network. Following recent work in simplifying these networks with model pruning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Feiwen Zhu , Jeff Pool , Michael Andersch , Jeremy Appleyard , Fung Xie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have provided brilliant performance across various tasks. However, this success often comes at the cost of unnecessarily large model sizes, high computational demands, and substantial memory footprints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shaharyar Ahmed Khan Tareen , Filza Khan Tareen

It is perhaps no longer surprising that machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, are particularly vulnerable to attacks. One such vulnerability that has been well studied is model extraction: a phenomenon in which the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tejumade Afonja , Lucas Bourtoule , Varun Chandrasekaran , Sageev Oore , Nicolas Papernot

Current graph neural network (GNN) model-stealing methods rely heavily on queries to the victim model, assuming no hard query limits. However, in reality, the number of allowed queries can be severely limited. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Computing at the edge is increasingly important since a massive amount of data is generated. This poses challenges in transporting all that data to the remote data centers and cloud, where they can be processed and analyzed. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Christian Makaya , Amalendu Iyer , Jonathan Salfity , Madhu Athreya , M Anthony Lewis

The second Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures challenge (ASVspoof 2017) focused on "replay attack" detection. The best deep-learning systems to compete in ASVspoof 2017 used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-24 Bhusan Chettri , Saumitra Mishra , Bob L. Sturm , Emmanouil Benetos

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown unprecedented success in object detection tasks. However, it was also discovered that DNNs are vulnerable to multiple kinds of attacks, including Backdoor Attacks. Through the attack, the attacker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yize Cheng , Wenbin Hu , Minhao Cheng

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance on most recognition tasks such as image classification and segmentation. However, they have also been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This phenomenon has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Anurag Arnab , Ondrej Miksik , Philip H. S. Torr

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the essential components for various commercialized machine learning services, such as Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS). Recent studies show that machine learning services face severe privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Xiaoyong Yuan , Leah Ding , Lan Zhang , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu