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In this paper, we present Zero-data Based Repeated bit flip Attack (ZeBRA) that precisely destroys deep neural networks (DNNs) by synthesizing its own attack datasets. Many prior works on adversarial weight attack require not only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Dahoon Park , Kon-Woo Kwon , Sunghoon Im , Jaeha Kung

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) have attracted substantial attention recently, in which an adversary could tamper with a small number of model parameter bits to break the integrity of DNNs. To mitigate such threats, a batch of defense methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jialai Wang , Ziyuan Zhang , Meiqi Wang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Qi Li , Zongpeng Li , Tao Wei , Chao Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be catastrophically disrupted by flipping only a handful of parameter bits. We introduce Deep Neural Lesion (DNL), a data-free and optimizationfree method that locates critical parameters, and an enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ido Galil , Moshe Kimhi , Ran El-Yaniv

Recently, Bit-Flip Attack (BFA) has garnered widespread attention for its ability to compromise software system integrity remotely through hardware fault injection. With the widespread distillation and deployment of large language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yu Yan , Siqi Lu , Yang Gao , Zhaoxuan Li , Ziming Zhao , Qingjun Yuan , Yongjuan Wang

Recent advancements in side-channel attacks have revealed the vulnerability of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to malicious adversarial weight attacks. The well-studied RowHammer attack has effectively compromised DNN performance by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ranyang Zhou , Jacqueline T. Liu , Sabbir Ahmed , Shaahin Angizi , Adnan Siraj Rakin

With deep learning deployed in many security-sensitive areas, machine learning security is becoming progressively important. Recent studies demonstrate attackers can exploit system-level techniques exploiting the RowHammer vulnerability of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ranyang Zhou , Sabbir Ahmed , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Shaahin Angizi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to tolerate "brain damage": cumulative changes to the network's parameters (e.g., pruning, numerical perturbations) typically result in a graceful degradation of classification accuracy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sanghyun Hong , Pietro Frigo , Yiğitcan Kaya , Cristiano Giuffrida , Tudor Dumitraş

Significant computational cost and memory requirements for deep neural networks (DNNs) make it difficult to utilize DNNs in resource-constrained environments. Binary neural network (BNN), which uses binary weights and binary activations,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hyungjun Kim , Yulhwa Kim , Sungju Ryu , Jae-Joon Kim

Generative Artificial Intelligence models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Models (VLMs), exhibit state-of-the-art performance but remain vulnerable to hardware-based threats, specifically bit-flip attacks (BFAs).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Khurram Khalil , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) deployed on memristive crossbar arrays provide energy-efficient solutions for edge computing but are susceptible to physical attacks due to memristor nonvolatility. Recently, Rajendran et al. (IEEE Embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bijeet Basak , Nupur Patil , Kurian Polachan , Srinivas Vivek

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), excelling in tasks like text generation and summarization. However, their increasing adoption in mission-critical applications raises concerns about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Sanjay Das , Swastik Bhattacharya , Souvik Kundu , Shamik Kundu , Anand Menon , Arnab Raha , Kanad Basu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety and security critical applications, raising concerns about their robustness to model parameter fault injection attacks. Recent studies have shown that bit-flip attacks (BFAs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jingkai Guo , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have enabled smart applications on hardware devices. However, these hardware devices are vulnerable to unintended faults caused by aging, temperature variance, and write errors. These faults can cause bit-flips…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Ninnart Fuengfusin , Hakaru Tamukoh

Upcoming certification actions related to the security of machine learning (ML) based systems raise major evaluation challenges that are amplified by the large-scale deployment of models in many hardware platforms. Until recently, most of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Mathieu Dumont , Kevin Hector , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre , Simon Pontié

Due to their proven efficiency, machine-learning systems are deployed in a wide range of complex real-life problems. More specifically, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) emerged as a promising solution to the accuracy, resource-utilization,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Valerio Venceslai , Alberto Marchisio , Ihsen Alouani , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Prior attacks on graph neural networks have mostly focused on graph poisoning and evasion, neglecting the network's weights and biases. Traditional weight-based fault injection attacks, such as bit flip attacks used for convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Lorenz Kummer , Samir Moustafa , Nils N. Kriege , Wilfried N. Gansterer

We propose HASHTAG, the first framework that enables high-accuracy detection of fault-injection attacks on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with provable bounds on detection performance. Recent literature in fault-injection attacks shows the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mojan Javaheripi , Farinaz Koushanfar

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in critical domains has spurred extensive research into their security issues. While input manipulation attacks (e.g., prompt injection) have been well studied, Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haotian Xu , Qingsong Peng , Jie Shi , Huadi Zheng , Yu Li , Cheng Zhuo

The wide deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) in high-performance cloud computing platforms brought to light multi-tenant cloud field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) as a popular choice of accelerator to boost performance due to its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Yukui Luo , Xiaolin Xu , Deliang Fan

State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial manipulation and backdoor attacks. Backdoored models deviate from expected behavior on inputs with predefined triggers while retaining performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 M. Caner Tol , Saad Islam , Andrew J. Adiletta , Berk Sunar , Ziming Zhang