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Several important security issues of Deep Neural Network (DNN) have been raised recently associated with different applications and components. The most widely investigated security concern of DNN is from its malicious input, a.k.a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan

Adversarial bit-flip attack (BFA) on Neural Network weights can result in catastrophic accuracy degradation by flipping a very small number of bits. A major drawback of prior bit flip attack techniques is their reliance on test data. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Behnam Ghavami , Mani Sadati , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Zhenman Fang , Lesley Shannon

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed on real-world devices. Concerns regarding their security have gained great attention from researchers. Recently, a new weight modification attack called bit flip attack (BFA) was proposed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jianshuo Dong , Han Qiu , Yiming Li , Tianwei Zhang , Yuanjie Li , Zeqi Lai , Chao Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

Recently developed adversarial weight attack, a.k.a. bit-flip attack (BFA), has shown enormous success in compromising Deep Neural Network (DNN) performance with an extremely small amount of model parameter perturbation. To defend against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Li Yang , Jingtao Li , Fan Yao , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo , Deliang Fan

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) can manipulate deep neural networks (DNNs). For high-level DNN models running on deep learning (DL) frameworks like PyTorch, extensive BFAs have been used to flip bits in model weights and shown effective. Defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yanzuo Chen , Zhibo Liu , Yuanyuan Yuan , Sihang Hu , Tianxiang Li , Shuai Wang

Deep neural network models are massively deployed on a wide variety of hardware platforms. This results in the appearance of new attack vectors that significantly extend the standard attack surface, extensively studied by the adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Kevin Hector , Mathieu Dumont , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre

Security of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is under severe scrutiny as the deployment of these models become widespread in many intelligence-based applications. Most recently, DNNs are attacked through Trojan which can effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan

Despite the rising prevalence of deep neural networks (DNNs) in cyber-physical systems, their vulnerability to adversarial bit-flip attacks (BFAs) is a noteworthy concern. This paper proposes B3FA, a semi-black-box BFA-based parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Behnam Ghavami , Mani Sadati , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful machine learning method for graph-structured data. A plethora of hardware accelerators has been introduced to meet the performance demands of GNNs in real-world applications. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sanaz Kazemi Abharian , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) represent a serious threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where flipping a small number of bits in the model parameters or binary code can significantly degrade the model accuracy or mislead the model prediction in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xiaobei Yan , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

Adversarial attacks on Neural Network weights, such as the progressive bit-flip attack (PBFA), can cause a catastrophic degradation in accuracy by flipping a very small number of bits. Furthermore, PBFA can be conducted at run time on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jingtao Li , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan , Chaitali Chakrabarti

To explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), many attack paradigms have been well studied, such as the poisoning-based backdoor attack in the training stage and the adversarial attack in the inference stage. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jiawang Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Yong Zhang , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

Neural networks have shown remarkable performance in various tasks, yet they remain susceptible to subtle changes in their input or model parameters. One particularly impactful vulnerability arises through the Bit-Flip Attack (BFA), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Nadav Benedek , Matan Levy , Mahmood Sharif

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been deployed in safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles and medical devices. Shortly after that, the vulnerability of DNNs were revealed by stealthy adversarial examples where crafted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Behnam Ghavami , Seyd Movi , Zhenman Fang , Lesley Shannon

To explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), many attack paradigms have been well studied, such as the poisoning-based backdoor attack in the training stage and the adversarial attack in the inference stage. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jiawang Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Shu-tao Xia

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

Model integrity of Large language models (LLMs) has become a pressing security concern with their massive online deployment. Prior Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) -- a class of popular AI weight memory fault-injection techniques -- can severely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jingkai Guo , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

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

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
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