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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are both known for their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Therefore, researchers in the recent past have extensively studied the robustness and defense of DNNs and SNNs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Syed Tihaam Ahmad , Ayesha Siddique , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), recognized as an energy-efficient alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), have advanced rapidly through the scaling of models and datasets. However, such scaling incurs considerable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chenxiang Ma , Xinyi Chen , Yujie Wu , Kay Chen Tan , Jibin Wu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are potential competitors to artificial neural networks (ANNs) due to their high energy-efficiency on neuromorphic hardware. However, SNNs are unfolded over simulation time steps during the training process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hong Zhang , Yu Zhang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining popularity in deep learning due to their low energy budget on neuromorphic hardware. However, they still face challenges in lacking sufficient robustness to guard safety-critical applications such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jianhao Ding , Zhiyu Pan , Yujia Liu , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Recently, AI research has primarily focused on large language models (LLMs), and increasing accuracy often involves scaling up and consuming more power. The power consumption of AI has become a significant societal issue; in this context,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Baekryun Seong , Jieung Kim , Sang-Ki Ko

While deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, considerably few efforts have been paid to construct robust deep tracking algorithms against adversarial attacks. Current studies on adversarial attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Shuai Jia , Chao Ma , Yibing Song , Xiaokang Yang

Adversarial examples are a key method to exploit deep neural networks. Using gradient information, such examples can be generated in an efficient way without altering the victim model. Recent frequency domain transformation has further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Yiyun Huang , Huaming Chen

As designers of artificial intelligence try to outwit hackers, both sides continue to hone in on AI's inherent vulnerabilities. Designed and trained from certain statistical distributions of data, AI's deep neural networks (DNNs) remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Wenzhao Xiang , Hang Su , Chang Liu , Yandong Guo , Shibao Zheng

Spiking neural networks are efficient computation models for low-power environments. Spike-based BP algorithms and ANN-to-SNN (ANN2SNN) conversions are successful techniques for SNN training. Nevertheless, the spike-base BP training is slow…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Jianxiong Tang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie , Lingxiao Yang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Skip connections are an essential component of current state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) such as ResNet, WideResNet, DenseNet, and ResNeXt. Despite their huge success in building deeper and more powerful DNNs, we identify a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Dongxian Wu , Yisen Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , James Bailey , Xingjun Ma

This paper investigates the vulnerability of spiking neural networks (SNNs) and federated learning (FL) to backdoor attacks using neuromorphic data. Despite the efficiency of SNNs and the privacy advantages of FL, particularly in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek , Aitor Urbieta

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer low-latency and energy-efficient decision making on neuromorphic hardware, making them attractive for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in resource-constrained edge devices. However, most RL algorithms for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zijie Xu , Tong Bu , Zecheng Hao , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered as a potential candidate for the next generation of artificial intelligence with appealing characteristics such as sparse computation and inherent temporal dynamics. By adopting architectures of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Kaiwei Che , Zhaokun Zhou , Li Yuan , Jianguo Zhang , Yonghong Tian , Luziwei Leng

With the mainstream integration of machine learning into security-sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance, concerns about data privacy have intensified. Conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been found vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hamed Poursiami , Ihsen Alouani , Maryam Parsa

Skip connection is an essential ingredient for modern deep models to be deeper and more powerful. Despite their huge success in normal scenarios (state-of-the-art classification performance on natural examples), we investigate and identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yisen Wang , Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Mingjie Li , Xingjun Ma , Zhouchen Lin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs). A large amount of efforts have been spent to launch and heat the arms race between the attackers and defenders. Recently, advanced gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Qinkai Zheng , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Gerard Memmi

Continuous-time, event-native spiking neural networks (SNNs) operate strictly on spike events, treating spike timing and ordering as the representation rather than an artifact of time discretization. This viewpoint aligns with biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Todd Morrill , Christian Pehle , Anthony Zador

Neural network quantization has become increasingly popular due to efficient memory consumption and faster computation resulting from bitwise operations on the quantized networks. Even though they exhibit excellent generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Kartik Gupta , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are delivering energy-efficient, massively parallel, and low-latency solutions to AI problems, facilitated by the emerging neuromorphic chips. To harness these computational benefits, SNN need to be trained by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Guangzhi Tang , Neelesh Kumar , Ioannis Polykretis , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neurons, can be operated in an event-driven manner and have internal states to retain information over time, providing opportunities for energy-efficient neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Wachirawit Ponghiran , Kaushik Roy