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Adversarial machine learning is a fast growing research area, which considers the scenarios when machine learning systems may face potential adversarial attackers, who intentionally synthesize input data to make a well-trained model to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Guofu Li , Pengjia Zhu , Jin Li , Zhemin Yang , Ning Cao , Zhiyi Chen

Machine learning algorithms are used to construct a mathematical model for a system based on training data. Such a model is capable of making highly accurate predictions without being explicitly programmed to do so. These techniques have a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Cato Pauling , Michael Gimson , Muhammed Qaid , Ahmad Kida , Basel Halak

Machine learning models have made many decision support systems to be faster, more accurate, and more efficient. However, applications of machine learning in network security face a more disproportionate threat of active adversarial attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Olakunle Ibitoye , Rana Abou-Khamis , Mohamed el Shehaby , Ashraf Matrawy , M. Omair Shafiq

The idea of applying machine learning(ML) to solve problems in security domains is almost 3 decades old. As information and communications grow more ubiquitous and more data become available, many security risks arise as well as appetite to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Heju Jiang , Jasvir Nagra , Parvez Ahammad

The holy grail of networking is to create \textit{cognitive networks} that organize, manage, and drive themselves. Such a vision now seems attainable thanks in large part to the progress in the field of machine learning (ML), which has now…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mounir Hamdi

In recent years machine learning algorithms, and more specifically deep learning algorithms, have been widely used in many fields, including cyber security. However, machine learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, and this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Ihai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici , Lior Rokach

Failure management plays a significant role in optical networks. It ensures secure operation, mitigates potential risks, and executes proactive protection. Machine learning (ML) is considered to be an extremely powerful technique for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Danshi Wang , Chunyu Zhang , Wenbin Chen , Hui Yang , Min Zhang , Alan Pak Tao Lau

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external memory systems to remain consistent across long-horizon interactions, but little empirical work has been done to understand the specific failure modes and design choices that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ishir Garg , Neel Kolhe , Dawn Song , Xuandong Zhao

Advances in machine learning have led to broad deployment of systems with impressive performance on important problems. Nonetheless, these systems can be induced to make errors on data that are surprisingly similar to examples the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Justin Gilmer , Ryan P. Adams , Ian Goodfellow , David Andersen , George E. Dahl

In this article, we propose the Artificial Intelligence Security Taxonomy to systematize the knowledge of threats, vulnerabilities, and security controls of machine-learning-based (ML-based) systems. We first classify the damage caused by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Yusuke Kawamoto , Kazumasa Miyake , Koichi Konishi , Yutaka Oiwa

Fueled by massive amounts of data, models produced by machine-learning (ML) algorithms, especially deep neural networks, are being used in diverse domains where trustworthiness is a concern, including automotive systems, finance, health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tommaso Dreossi , Somesh Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia

Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly common in security applications, such as malware and intrusion detection. However, ML models are often susceptible to evasion attacks, in which an adversary makes changes to the input (such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Liang Tong , Bo Li , Chen Hajaj , Chaowei Xiao , Ning Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Recent results suggest that attacks against supervised machine learning systems are quite effective, while defenses are easily bypassed by new attacks. However, the specifications for machine learning systems currently lack precise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Octavian Suciu , Radu Mărginean , Yiğitcan Kaya , Hal Daumé , Tudor Dumitraş

There is growing recognition that machine learning (ML) exposes new security and privacy vulnerabilities in software systems, yet the technical community's understanding of the nature and extent of these vulnerabilities remains limited but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Nicolas Papernot

Machine Learning (ML) models are increasingly integrated into safety-critical systems, such as autonomous vehicle platooning, to enable real-time decision-making. However, their inherent imperfection introduces a new class of failure:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Razieh Arshadizadeh , Mahmoud Asgari , Zeinab Khosravi , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Koorosh Aslansefat

A learned database system uses machine learning (ML) internally to improve performance. We can expect such systems to be vulnerable to some adversarial-ML attacks. Often, the learned component is shared between mutually-distrusting users or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Roei Schuster , Jin Peng Zhou , Thorsten Eisenhofer , Paul Grubbs , Nicolas Papernot

Recently, advances in deep learning have been observed in various fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and cybersecurity. Machine learning (ML) has demonstrated its ability as a potential tool for anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 D'Jeff Kanda Nkashama , Arian Soltani , Jean-Charles Verdier , Marc Frappier , Pierre-Martin Tardif , Froduald Kabanza

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate software generation in embedded machine learning workflows, yet their outputs often fail silently or behave unpredictably. This article presents an empirical investigation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Roberto Morabito , Guanghan Wu

As robotic systems become increasingly integrated into real-world environments, ranging from autonomous vehicles to household assistants, they inevitably encounter diverse and unstructured scenarios that lead to failures. While such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aryaman Gupta , Yusuf Umut Ciftci , Somil Bansal

Adversarial Machine Learning (AML) addresses vulnerabilities in AI systems where adversaries manipulate inputs or training data to degrade performance. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of evasion and poisoning attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Pranav K Jha