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Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to reduce the computational burden of mobile devices and decrease the end-to-end inference latency in edge computing scenarios. While distributed DNNs have been studied, to the best of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Milin Zhang , Mohammad Abdi , Jonathan Ashdown , Francesco Restuccia

Model stealing attacks have become a serious concern for deep learning models, where an attacker can steal a trained model by querying its black-box API. This can lead to intellectual property theft and other security and privacy risks. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kacem Khaled , Mouna Dhaouadi , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Gabriela Nicolescu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance on various tasks, however they are under the risk of adversarial examples that can be easily generated when the target model is accessible to an attacker (white-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Yang Bai , Yuyuan Zeng , Yong Jiang , Yisen Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Weiwei Guo

In the past few years, an increasing number of machine-learning and deep learning structures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have been applied to solving a wide range of real-life problems. However, these architectures are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Amira Guesmi , Ihsen Alouani , Khaled Khasawneh , Mouna Baklouti , Tarek Frikha , Mohamed Abid , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Most real-world applications that employ deep neural networks (DNNs) quantize them to low precision to reduce the compute needs. We present a method to improve the robustness of quantized DNNs to white-box adversarial attacks. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Saurabh Farkya , Aswin Raghavan , Avi Ziskind

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. The literature is rich with algorithms that can easily craft successful adversarial examples. In contrast, the performance of defense techniques still lags behind. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Yuzhe Yang , Guo Zhang , Dina Katabi , Zhi Xu

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs), unlike Traditional Neural Networks (TNNs) are robust and adept at handling adversarial attacks by incorporating randomness. This randomness improves the estimation of uncertainty, a feature lacking in TNNs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Adaku Uchendu , Daniel Campoy , Christopher Menart , Alexandra Hildenbrandt

Deep learning (DL) is being used extensively for text classification. However, researchers have demonstrated the vulnerability of such classifiers to adversarial attacks. Attackers modify the text in a way which misleads the classifier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jonathan Rusert , Padmini Srinivasan

In this work, we consider model robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks from a global manifold perspective. Leveraging both the local and global latent information, we propose a novel adversarial training method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhuang Qian , Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Qiufeng Wang , Rui Zhang , Xinping Yi

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a designed trigger is injected into the dataset, causing erroneous predictions when activated. In this paper, we propose a novel defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenjie Huo , Katinka Wolter

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted significant attention for their outstanding performance in graph learning and node classification tasks. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, particularly through susceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sepideh Neshatfar , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Deep learning algorithms and networks are vulnerable to perturbed inputs which is known as the adversarial attack. Many defense methodologies have been investigated to defend against such adversarial attack. In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Boqing Gong , Deliang Fan

Machine learning algorithms are often vulnerable to adversarial examples that have imperceptible alterations from the original counterparts but can fool the state-of-the-art models. It is helpful to evaluate or even improve the robustness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Di Jin , Zhijing Jin , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Peter Szolovits

In social media, neural network models have been applied to hate speech detection, sentiment analysis, etc., but neural network models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. For instance, in a text classification task, the attacker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xi Cao , Nuo Qun , Quzong Gesang , Yulei Zhu , Trashi Nyima

In recent years Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable results and even showed super-human capabilities in a broad range of domains. This led people to trust in DNNs' classifications and resulting actions even in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Philip Sperl , Ching-Yu Kao , Peng Chen , Konstantin Böttinger

Deep learning has shown promising results on hard perceptual problems in recent years. However, deep learning systems are found to be vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations that are nearly imperceptible to human. Such specially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Dongyu Meng , Hao Chen

The widespread adoption of code language models in software engineering tasks has exposed vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, especially the identifier substitution attacks. Although existing identifier substitution attackers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenhan Mu , Ling Xu , Shuren Pei , Le Mi , Huichi Zhou

Existing defenses against adversarial attacks are typically tailored to a specific perturbation type. Using adversarial training to defend against multiple types of perturbation requires expensive adversarial examples from different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Jay Nandy , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

At present, backdoor attacks attract attention as they do great harm to deep learning models. The adversary poisons the training data making the model being injected with a backdoor after being trained unconsciously by victims using the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shengfang Zhai , Qingni Shen , Xiaoyi Chen , Weilong Wang , Cong Li , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used today, but they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To develop effective methods of defense, it is important to understand the potential weak spots of DNNs. Often attacks are organized taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Andrei Chertkov , Ivan Oseledets