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The field of defense strategies against adversarial attacks has significantly grown over the last years, but progress is hampered as the evaluation of adversarial defenses is often insufficient and thus gives a wrong impression of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Model stealing attacks present a dilemma for public machine learning APIs. To protect financial investments, companies may be forced to withhold important information about their models that could facilitate theft, including uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mantas Mazeika , Bo Li , David Forsyth

Deep learning has emerged as a strong and efficient framework that can be applied to a broad spectrum of complex learning problems which were difficult to solve using the traditional machine learning techniques in the past. In the last few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Anirban Chakraborty , Manaar Alam , Vishal Dey , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Cybersecurity practices require effort to be maintained, and one weakness is a lack of awareness regarding potential attacks not only in the usage of machine learning models, but also in their development process. Previous studies have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Devon A. Kelly , Sarah A. Flanery , Christiana Chamon

In this paper we introduce a notion of fault-tolerance distance between labeled transition systems. Intuitively, this notion of distance measures the degree of fault-tolerance exhibited by a candidate system. In practice, there are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Pablo F. Castro , Pedro R. D'Argenio , Ramiro Demasi , Luciano Putruele

With the increasing use of neural networks in critical systems, runtime monitoring becomes essential to reject unsafe predictions during inference. Various techniques have emerged to establish rejection scores that maximize the separability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Khoi Tran Dang , Kevin Delmas , Jérémie Guiochet , Joris Guérin

Recent works have brought attention to the vulnerability of Federated Learning (FL) systems to gradient leakage attacks. Such attacks exploit clients' uploaded gradients to reconstruct their sensitive data, thereby compromising the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Xiaodan Li , Wenmeng Zhou

We propose to utilize gradients for detecting adversarial and out-of-distribution samples. We introduce confounding labels -- labels that differ from normal labels seen during training -- in gradient generation to probe the effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jinsol Lee , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Deep learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In particular, gradient-based attacks have demonstrated high success rates recently. The gradient measures how each image pixel affects the model output, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hanbin Hong , Yuan Hong , Yu Kong

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Security metrics present the security level of a system or a network in both qualitative and quantitative ways. In general, security metrics are used to assess the security level of a system and to achieve security goals. There are a lot of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Simon Yusuf Enoch , Jin B. Hong , Mengmeng Ge , Dong Seong Kim

Model stealing attack is increasingly threatening the confidentiality of machine learning models deployed in the cloud. Recent studies reveal that adversaries can exploit data synthesis techniques to steal machine learning models even in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yunfei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Yuexin Xuan , Zhendong Zhao

Measuring the information leakage is critical for evaluating the practical security of cryptographic devices against side-channel analysis. Information-theoretic measures can be used (along with Fano's inequality) to derive upper bounds on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wei Cheng , Yi Liu , Sylvain Guilley , Olivier Rioul

The incredible effectiveness of adversarial attacks on fooling deep neural networks poses a tremendous hurdle in the widespread adoption of deep learning in safety and security-critical domains. While adversarial defense mechanisms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Hossein Aboutalebi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee Alexander Wong

Adversarial training is a training scheme designed to counter adversarial attacks by augmenting the training dataset with adversarial examples. Surprisingly, several studies have observed that loss gradients from adversarially trained DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Beomsu Kim , Junghoon Seo , Taegyun Jeon

Robustness to adversarial attacks is typically evaluated with adversarial accuracy. While essential, this metric does not capture all aspects of robustness and in particular leaves out the question of how many perturbations can be found for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

With the flourishing prosperity of generative models, manipulated facial images have become increasingly accessible, raising concerns regarding privacy infringement and societal trust. In response, proactive defense strategies embed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yue Li , Linying Xue , Dongdong Lin , Qiushi Li , Hui Tian , Hongxia Wang

With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence and machine learning, a wide spectrum of attacks against deep learning models have been proposed in the literature. Both the evasion attacks and the poisoning attacks attempt to utilize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Zeyan Liu , Fengjun Li , Jingqiang Lin , Zhu Li , Bo Luo

While machine-learning algorithms have demonstrated a strong ability in detecting Android malware, they can be evaded by sparse evasion attacks crafted by injecting a small set of fake components, e.g., permissions and system calls, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Marco Melis , Michele Scalas , Ambra Demontis , Davide Maiorca , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

Person re-identification (re-ID) has attracted much attention recently due to its great importance in video surveillance. In general, distance metrics used to identify two person images are expected to be robust under various appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Song Bai , Yingwei Li , Yuyin Zhou , Qizhu Li , Philip H. S. Torr