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While real-world applications of reinforcement learning are becoming popular, the security and robustness of RL systems are worthy of more attention and exploration. In particular, recent works have revealed that, in a multi-agent RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Junfeng Guo , Ang Li , Cong Liu

Nowadays, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) report state-of-the-art results in many machine learning areas, including intrusion detection. Nevertheless, recent studies in computer vision have shown that DNNs can be vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Islam Debicha , Thibault Debatty , Jean-Michel Dricot , Wim Mees

The availability of wide-ranging third-party intellectual property (3PIP) cores enables integrated circuit (IC) designers to focus on designing high-level features in ASICs/SoCs. The massive proliferation of ICs brings with it an increased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Nikhil Muralidhar , Abdullah Zubair , Nathanael Weidler , Ryan Gerdes , Naren Ramakrishnan

The use of third-party IP cores in implementing applications in FPGAs has given rise to the threat of malicious alterations through the insertion of hardware Trojans. To address this threat, it is important to predict the way hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ash Luft , Mihai Sima , Michael McGuire

A major security threat to an integrated circuit (IC) design is the Hardware Trojan attack which is a malicious modification of the design. Previously several papers have investigated into side-channel analysis to detect the presence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Samir R Katte , Keith E Fernandez

Deep neural networks are known to have security issues. One particular threat is the Trojan attack. It occurs when the attackers stealthily manipulate the model's behavior through Trojaned training samples, which can later be exploited.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Songzhu Zheng , Yikai Zhang , Hubert Wagner , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

We present a new algorithm to train a robust malware detector. Modern malware detectors rely on machine learning algorithms. Now, the adversarial objective is to devise alterations to the malware code to decrease the chance of being…

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to their input can modify their output. Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches to training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Hardware Trojans (HT s) are a persistent threat to integrated circuits, especially when inserted at the register-transfer level (RTL). Existing methods typically first convert the design into a graph, such as a gate-level netlist or an…

Hardware Trojans (HTs) threaten the trust and reliability of integrated circuits (ICs), particularly when triggered HTs remain dormant during standard testing and activate only under rare conditions. Existing electromagnetic (EM)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mahsa Tahghigh , Hassan Salmani

Industrial Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) often comprise hundreds of thousands to millions of nets and millions to tens of millions of connectivity edges, making empirical evaluation of hardware-Trojan (HT) detectors on realistic designs both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yaroslav Popryho , Debjit Pal , Inna Partin-Vaisband

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are deployed in more and more classification systems, but adversarial samples can be maliciously crafted to trick them, and are becoming a real threat. There have been various proposals to improve CNNs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Ilia Shumailov , Yiren Zhao , Robert Mullins , Ross Anderson

In the last a few decades, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Recent studies however show that neural networks (both shallow and deep) may be easily fooled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Qiu-Feng Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang

Deep neural networks are being widely deployed for many critical tasks due to their high classification accuracy. In many cases, pre-trained models are sourced from vendors who may have disrupted the training pipeline to insert Trojan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Xiaoyu Zhang , Ajmal Mian , Rohit Gupta , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

With the rapid growth of malware attacks, more antivirus developers consider deploying machine learning technologies into their productions. Researchers and developers published various machine learning-based detectors with high precision…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Matthew Crawford , Wei Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue

This tutorial aims to introduce the fundamentals of adversarial robustness of deep learning, presenting a well-structured review of up-to-date techniques to assess the vulnerability of various types of deep learning models to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Wenjie Ruan , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved competitive performance in broad vision tasks. Unfortunately, on popular threat models, naturally trained ViTs are shown to provide no more adversarial robustness than convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Training machine learning models can be very expensive or even unaffordable. This may be, for example, due to data limitations, such as unavailability or being too large, or computational power limitations. Therefore, it is a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Mohamed E. Hussein , Sudharshan Subramaniam Janakiraman , Wael AbdAlmageed

Signature-based malware detectors have proven to be insufficient as even a small change in malignant executable code can bypass these signature-based detectors. Many machine learning-based models have been proposed to efficiently detect a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yash Jakhotiya , Heramb Patil , Jugal Rawlani , Sunil B. Mane