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Recent advances in adversarial machine learning have shown that defenses considered to be robust are actually susceptible to adversarial attacks which are specifically customized to target their weaknesses. These defenses include Barrage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ethan Rathbun , Kaleel Mahmood , Sohaib Ahmad , Caiwen Ding , Marten van Dijk

We study automated intrusion prevention using reinforcement learning. Following a novel approach, we formulate the interaction between an attacker and a defender as an optimal stopping game and let attack and defense strategies evolve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kim Hammar , Rolf Stadler

Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Miguel A. DelaCruz , Patricia Mae Santos , Rafael T. Navarro

Bayesian regression games are a special class of two-player general-sum Bayesian games in which the learner is partially informed about the adversary's objective through a Bayesian prior. This formulation captures the uncertainty in regard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Wenshuo Guo , Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin

Cyber deception is one of the key approaches used to mislead attackers by hiding or providing inaccurate system information. There are two main factors limiting the real-world application of existing cyber deception approaches. The first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Shen Sheng , Wanlei Zhou

This paper presents an input-constrained nonlinear guidance law to address the problem of intercepting a stationary target in contested environments with multiple defending agents. Contrary to prior approaches that rely on explicit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Praveen Kumar Ranjan , Abhinav Sinha , Yongcan Cao

A conflict between rational and autonomous agents is considered. The paper addresses a differential game of protecting a target in the 3-D space. This problem highlights the strong correlation between the highly dynamic scenario, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Eloy Garcia , Isaac Weintraub , David W. Casbeer , Meir Pachter

We introduce a discrete-time search game, in which two players compete to find an object first. The object moves according to a time-varying Markov chain on finitely many states. The players know the Markov chain and the initial probability…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Benoit Duvocelle , János Flesch , Mathias Staudigl , Dries Vermeulen

We introduce a formal notion of defendability against backdoors using a game between an attacker and a defender. In this game, the attacker modifies a function to behave differently on a particular input known as the "trigger", while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Paul Christiano , Jacob Hilton , Victor Lecomte , Mark Xu

We study the m-eternal domination problem from the perspective of the attacker. For many graph classes, the minimum required number of guards to defend eternally is known. By definition, if the defender has less than the required number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Václav Blažej , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Tomáš Valla

We consider a surveillance-evasion game in an environment with obstacles. In such an environment, a mobile pursuer seeks to maintain the visibility with a mobile evader, who tries to get occluded from the pursuer in the shortest time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

In the standard setting of approachability there are two players and a target set. The players play repeatedly a known vector-valued game where the first player wants to have the average vector-valued payoff converge to the target set which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-20 Shie Mannor , Vianney Perchet , Gilles Stoltz

We consider a game in which a strategic defender classifies an intruder as spy or spammer. The classification is based on the number of file server and mail server attacks observed during a fixed window. The spammer naively attacks (with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Lemonia Dritsoula , Patrick Loiseau , John Musacchio

This paper presents a booby trap game played between a defender and an attacker on a search space, which may be a compact subset of Euclidean space or a network. The defender has several booby traps and chooses where to plant them. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Thomas Lidbetter , Kyle Lin

In this work, we model Moving Target Defence (MTD) as a partially observable stochastic game between an attacker and a defender. The attacker tries to compromise the system through probing actions, while the defender minimizes the risk by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mandar Datar , Yann Dujardin

We address target interception in contested environments in the presence of multiple defenders whose interception capability is limited by finite ranges. Conventional methods typically impose conservative stand-off constraints based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Praveen Kumar Ranjan , Abhinav Sinha , Yongcan Cao

Adversarial attacks pose significant threats to the reliability and safety of deep learning models, especially in critical domains such as medical imaging. This paper introduces a novel framework that integrates conformal prediction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Rui Luo , Jie Bao , Zhixin Zhou , Chuangyin Dang

We study two-player security games which can be viewed as sequences of nonzero-sum matrix games played by an Attacker and a Defender. The evolution of the game is based on a stochastic fictitious play process, where players do not have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kien C. Nguyen , Tansu Alpcan , Tamer Başar

As large language models grow increasingly capable, concerns about their safe deployment have intensified. While numerous alignment strategies aim to restrict harmful behavior, these defenses can still be circumvented through carefully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xinbo Wu , Huan Zhang , Abhishek Umrawal , Lav R. Varshney

In numerous positional games the identity of the winner is easily determined. In this case one of the more interesting questions is not {\em who} wins but rather {\em how fast} can one win. These type of problems were studied earlier for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-03 Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich , Miloš Stojaković , Tibor Szabó