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Even a slight perturbation in the graph structure can cause a significant drop in the accuracy of graph neural networks (GNNs). Most existing attacks leverage gradient information to perturb edges. This relaxes the attack's optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh , Soroush H. Zargarbashi , Jimin Cao , Aleksandar Bojchevski

Adversarial attacks to graph analytics are gaining increased attention. To date, two lines of countermeasures have been proposed to resist various graph adversarial attacks from the perspectives of either graph per se or graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xinxin Fan , Wenxiong Chen , Mengfan Li , Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

This work focuses on developing an effective meta-heuristic approach to protect against simultaneous attacks on nodes of a network modeled using a graph. Specifically, we focus on the $k$-strong Roman domination problem, a generalization of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Marko Djukanovic , Stefan Kapunac , Aleksandar Kartelj , Dragan Matic

This paper investigates the problem of database-assisted spectrum access in dynamic TV white spectrum networks, in which the active user set is varying. Since there is no central controller and information exchange, it encounters dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuhua Xu , Yitao Xu , Alagan Anpalagan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are inherently vulnerable to adversarial inputs: such maliciously crafted samples trigger DNNs to misbehave, leading to detrimental consequences for DNN-powered systems. The fundamental challenges of mitigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Yujie Ji , Xinyang Zhang , Ting Wang

In adversarial patrolling games, a mobile Defender strives to discover intrusions at vulnerable targets initiated by an Attacker. The Attacker's utility is traditionally defined as the probability of completing an attack, possibly weighted…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-03 David Klaška , Antonín Kučera , Vít Musil , Vojtěch Řehák

The deep neural network has attained significant efficiency in image recognition. However, it has vulnerable recognition robustness under extensive data uncertainty in practical applications. The uncertainty is attributed to the inevitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Ruoxi Qin , Linyuan Wang , Xuehui Du , Xingyuan Chen , Bin Yan

Deep neural network-based image classifications are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The image classifications can be easily fooled by adding artificial small and imperceptible perturbations to input images. As one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jindong Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr

This paper deals with modeling of network's dynamic using evolutionary games approach. Today there are many different protocols for data transmission through the Internet, providing users with better or worse service. The process of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Oleksii Ignatenko , Oleksandr Synetskyi

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is commonly formulated as a repeated security game to mitigate persistent threats. Although the strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) characterizes the defender's optimal strategy in the leader-follower framework,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhaoyang Cheng , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong , Ming Cao , Mikael Skoglund

Adversarial attacks in 3D environments have emerged as a critical threat to the reliability of visual perception systems, particularly in safety-sensitive applications such as identity verification and autonomous driving. These attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Xiao Yang , Lingxuan Wu , Lizhong Wang , Chengyang Ying , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

In this paper, we study a Target-Attacker-Defender (TAD) differential game involving one attacker, one target and multiple defenders. We consider two variations where (a) the attacker and the target have unlimited observation range and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Sharad Kumar Singh , Puduru Viswanadha Reddy

This paper investigates a resilient distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problem on a directed communication network subject to malicious cyber-attacks. The considered attacks, named as Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, are allowed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Zhi Feng , Guoqiang Hu

We develop an analytical Stackelberg game framework for optimal resource allocation in a sequential attacker--defender setting with a finite set of assets and probabilistic attacks. The defender commits to a mixed protection strategy, after…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Azhar Iqbal , James M. Chappell , Derek Abbott

Deep learning (DL) has been widely applied to enhance automatic modulation classification (AMC). However, the elaborate AMC neural networks are susceptible to various adversarial attacks, which are challenging to handle due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Peihao Dong , Jingchun Wang , Shen Gao , Fuhui Zhou , Qihui Wu

As an effective approach to thwarting advanced attacks, moving target defense (MTD) has been applied to various domains. Previous works on MTD, however, mainly focus on deciding the sequence of system configurations to be used and have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Henger Li , Zizhan Zheng

Active Directory (AD) is a crucial element of large organizations, given its central role in managing access to resources. Since AD is used by all users in the organization, it is hard to detect attackers. We propose to generate and place…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ondrej Lukas , Sebastian Garcia

Graph Attention Networks(GATs) are useful deep learning models to deal with the graph data. However, recent works show that the classical GAT is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. It degrades dramatically with slight perturbations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xianchen Zhou , Yaoyun Zeng , Hongxia Wang

Software vulnerabilities are a challenge in cybersecurity. Manual security patches are often difficult and slow to be deployed, while new vulnerabilities are created. Binary code vulnerability detection is less studied and more complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Litao Li , Steven H. H. Ding , Andrew Walenstein , Philippe Charland , Benjamin C. M. Fung

Adversarial attacks can generate adversarial inputs by applying small but intentionally worst-case perturbations to samples from the dataset, which leads to even state-of-the-art deep neural networks outputting incorrect answers with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shorya Sharma