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Enterprise AI systems, built on large language models, retrieval pipelines and autonomous agents, introduce a class of risks that traditional software quality assurance was never designed to address. These systems are probabilistic,…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph learning tasks. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to both test-time evasion and training-time poisoning attacks that perturb the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Binghui Wang , Meng Pang , Yun Dong

As AI systems become increasingly capable, safety strategies must be evaluated not only by how much they reduce present risk, but by whether they could sustain safety once external control can no longer reliably constrain system behavior.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 James M. Mazzu

AI is poised to revolutionize telecommunication networks by boosting efficiency, automation, and decision-making. However, the black-box nature of most AI models introduces substantial risk, possibly deterring adoption by network operators.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Osvaldo Simeone , Sangwoo Park , Matteo Zecchin

Backdoor attacks on deep neural networks have emerged as significant security threats, especially as DNNs are increasingly deployed in security-critical applications. However, most existing works assume that the attacker has access to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jiahao Wang , Xianglong Zhang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Pengfei Hu , Guoming Zhang

Ensuring the safety and efficiency of AI systems is a central goal of modern research. Formal verification provides guarantees of neural network robustness, while early exits improve inference efficiency by enabling intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yizhak Yisrael Elboher , Avraham Raviv , Amihay Elboher , Zhouxing Shi , Omri Azencot , Hillel Kugler , Guy Katz

Artificial neural networks tend to learn only what they need for a task. A manipulation of the training data can counter this phenomenon. In this paper, we study the effect of different alterations of the training data, which limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Clemens Seibold , Wojciech Samek , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

As machine learning (ML) classifiers increasingly oversee the automated monitoring of network traffic, studying their resilience against adversarial attacks becomes critical. This paper focuses on poisoning attacks, specifically backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Giorgio Severi , Simona Boboila , Alina Oprea , John Holodnak , Kendra Kratkiewicz , Jason Matterer

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

Recent work has demonstrated that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples---inputs that are almost indistinguishable from natural data and yet classified incorrectly by the network. In fact, some of the latest findings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-06 Aleksander Madry , Aleksandar Makelov , Ludwig Schmidt , Dimitris Tsipras , Adrian Vladu

As AI systems gain increasing autonomy and execution capability, the number of discovered security vulnerabilities continues to rise. However, many of these vulnerabilities are not fundamentally novel, but instead reflect recurring classes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kevin Eykholt , Dhilung Kirat , Xiaokui Shu , Jiyong Jang , Frederico Araujo , Ian Molloy

Safety is a critical concern for the next generation of autonomy that is likely to rely heavily on deep neural networks for perception and control. Formally verifying the safety and robustness of well-trained DNNs and learning-enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xiaodong Yang , Tom Yamaguchi , Hoang-Dung Tran , Bardh Hoxha , Taylor T Johnson , Danil Prokhorov

Recent developments in deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to their adoption in safety-critical systems, which in turn has heightened the need for guaranteeing their safety. These safety properties of DNNs can be proven using tools…

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Financial forecasting increasingly uses large neural network models, but their opacity raises challenges for trust and regulatory compliance. We present several approaches to explainable and reliable AI in finance. \emph{First}, we describe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Albi Isufaj , Pablo Mollá , Helmut Prendinger

Neural network (NN) controllers achieve strong empirical performance on nonlinear dynamical systems, yet deploying them in safety-critical settings requires robustness to disturbances and uncertainty. We present a method for jointly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Neelay Junnarkar , Yasin Sonmez , Murat Arcak

Recent progress towards theoretical interpretability guarantees for AI has been made with classifiers that are based on interactive proof systems. A prover selects a certificate from the datapoint and sends it to a verifier who decides the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Stephan Wäldchen

The growing reliance on artificial intelligence in safety- and security-critical applications is raising concerns about the robustness of neural networks to erroneous or adversarial input. Certification is a methodology for ensuring model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Anton Björklund , Mykola Zaitsev , Paolo Morettin , Marta Kwiatkowska

Adversarial examples are small and often imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool machine learning models. These attacks seriously threaten the reliability of deep neural networks, especially in security-sensitive domains. Evasion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Francesco Marchiori , Marco Alecci , Luca Pajola , Mauro Conti

One of the most concerning threats for modern AI systems is data poisoning, where the attacker injects maliciously crafted training data to corrupt the system's behavior at test time. Availability poisoning is a particularly worrisome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Sebastiano Vascon , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli , Marcello Pelillo

Safe learning is central to AI-enabled robots where a single failure may lead to catastrophic results. Barrier-based method is one of the dominant approaches for safe robot learning. However, this method is not scalable, hard to train, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Wei Xiao , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Daniela Rus