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Manifold learning techniques have become increasingly valuable as data continues to grow in size. By discovering a lower-dimensional representation (embedding) of the structure of a dataset, manifold learning algorithms can substantially…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Andrew Lensen , Mengjie Zhang , Bing Xue

Due to the popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, we are witnessing an increasing number of backdoor injection attacks that are designed to maliciously threaten Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) causing misclassification. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Zhihao Yue , Jun Xia , Zhiwei Ling , Ming Hu , Ting Wang , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

The use of Machine Learning (ML) models in cybersecurity solutions requires high-quality data that is stripped of redundant, missing, and noisy information. By selecting the most relevant features, data integrity and model efficiency can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Miguel Silva , João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Breast cancer screening, primarily conducted through mammography, is often supplemented with ultrasound for women with dense breast tissue. However, existing deep learning models analyze each modality independently, missing opportunities to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Yiqiu Shen , Jungkyu Park , Frank Yeung , Eliana Goldberg , Laura Heacock , Farah Shamout , Krzysztof J. Geras

Translating the vast data generated by genomic platforms into reliable predictions of clinical outcomes remains a critical challenge in realizing the promise of genomic medicine largely due to small number of independent samples. In this…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-04 Safoora Yousefi , Amirreza Shaban , Mohamed Amgad , Ramraj Chandradevan , Lee A. D. Cooper

Large Language Models (LLMs) inherit explicit and implicit biases from their training datasets. Identifying and mitigating biases in LLMs is crucial to ensure fair outputs, as they can perpetuate harmful stereotypes and misinformation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Fatima Kazi , Alex Young , Yash Inani , Setareh Rafatirad

Motivation: Gene selection has become a common task in most gene expression studies. The objective of such research is often to identify the smallest possible set of genes that can still achieve good predictive performance. The problem of…

Backdoor data poisoning is an emerging form of adversarial attack usually against deep neural network image classifiers. The attacker poisons the training set with a relatively small set of images from one (or several) source class(es),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Machine learning (ML) holds great promise for clinical applications but is often hindered by limited access to high-quality data due to privacy concerns, high costs, and long timelines associated with clinical trials. While large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zerui Xu , Fang Wu , Yingzhou Lu , Yuanyuan Zhang , Yue Zhao

Fairness is a critical component of Trustworthy AI. In this paper, we focus on Machine Learning (ML) and the performance of model predictions when dealing with skin color. Unlike other sensitive attributes, the nature of skin color differs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kuniko Paxton , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

As machine learning (ML) systems are being increasingly employed in the real world to handle sensitive tasks and make decisions in various fields, the security and privacy of those models have also become increasingly critical. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Marwan Omar

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies continue to gain traction in the modern-day world, they ultimately pose an immediate threat to current cybersecurity systems via exploitative methods. Prompt engineering is a relatively new field…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Haiyan Xuan , Mohith Manohar

Cybersecurity has emerged as a critical global concern. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) play a critical role in protecting interconnected networks by detecting malicious actors and activities. Machine Learning (ML)-based behavior analysis…

It is common practice to outsource the training of machine learning models to cloud providers. Clients who do so gain from the cloud's economies of scale, but implicitly assume trust: the server should not deviate from the client's training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Hengrui Jia , Sierra Wyllie , Akram Bin Sediq , Ahmed Ibrahim , Nicolas Papernot

Transfer learning is beneficial by allowing the expressive features of models pretrained on large-scale datasets to be finetuned for the target task of smaller, more domain-specific datasets. However, there is a concern that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Angelina Wang , Olga Russakovsky

The advancement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models across diverse domains have transformed the way we interact with technology. However, it is essential to recognize that while AI models have introduced remarkable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Hema Karnam Surendrababu , Nithin Nagaraj

Cyber security has grown up to be a hot issue in recent years. How to identify potential malware becomes a challenging task. To tackle this challenge, we adopt deep learning approaches and perform flow detection on real data. However, real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Yun-Chun Chen , Yu-Jhe Li , Aragorn Tseng , Tsungnan Lin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative AI (GenAI) are increasingly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries embed triggers into inputs to cause models to misclassify or misinterpret target labels. Beyond traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kyle Stein , Andrew A. Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

Machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial manipulation. Previous literature has demonstrated that at the training stage attackers can manipulate data and data sampling procedures to control model behaviour. A common attack goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Mikel Bober-Irizar , Ilia Shumailov , Yiren Zhao , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

AI systems frequently exhibit and amplify social biases, leading to harmful consequences in critical areas. This study introduces a novel encoder-decoder approach that leverages model gradients to learn a feature neuron encoding societal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jonathan Drechsel , Steffen Herbold