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To explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), many attack paradigms have been well studied, such as the poisoning-based backdoor attack in the training stage and the adversarial attack in the inference stage. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jiawang Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Yong Zhang , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed on real-world devices. Concerns regarding their security have gained great attention from researchers. Recently, a new weight modification attack called bit flip attack (BFA) was proposed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jianshuo Dong , Han Qiu , Yiming Li , Tianwei Zhang , Yuanjie Li , Zeqi Lai , Chao Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

Several important security issues of Deep Neural Network (DNN) have been raised recently associated with different applications and components. The most widely investigated security concern of DNN is from its malicious input, a.k.a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been deployed in safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles and medical devices. Shortly after that, the vulnerability of DNNs were revealed by stealthy adversarial examples where crafted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Behnam Ghavami , Seyd Movi , Zhenman Fang , Lesley Shannon

Neural networks have shown remarkable performance in various tasks, yet they remain susceptible to subtle changes in their input or model parameters. One particularly impactful vulnerability arises through the Bit-Flip Attack (BFA), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Nadav Benedek , Matan Levy , Mahmood Sharif

The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on compute-in-memory (CiM) accelerators offers significant energy savings and speed-up by reducing data movement during inference. However, the reliability of CiM-based systems is challenged by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Akul Malhotra , Sumeet Kumar Gupta

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) can manipulate deep neural networks (DNNs). For high-level DNN models running on deep learning (DL) frameworks like PyTorch, extensive BFAs have been used to flip bits in model weights and shown effective. Defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yanzuo Chen , Zhibo Liu , Yuanyuan Yuan , Sihang Hu , Tianxiang Li , Shuai Wang

Traditional Deep Neural Network (DNN) security is mostly related to the well-known adversarial input example attack. Recently, another dimension of adversarial attack, namely, attack on DNN weight parameters, has been shown to be very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Jingtao Li , Fan Yao , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be catastrophically disrupted by flipping only a handful of parameter bits. We introduce Deep Neural Lesion (DNL), a data-free and optimizationfree method that locates critical parameters, and an enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ido Galil , Moshe Kimhi , Ran El-Yaniv

Model integrity of Large language models (LLMs) has become a pressing security concern with their massive online deployment. Prior Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) -- a class of popular AI weight memory fault-injection techniques -- can severely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jingkai Guo , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

In this paper, we present Zero-data Based Repeated bit flip Attack (ZeBRA) that precisely destroys deep neural networks (DNNs) by synthesizing its own attack datasets. Many prior works on adversarial weight attack require not only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Dahoon Park , Kon-Woo Kwon , Sunghoon Im , Jaeha Kung

Security of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is under severe scrutiny as the deployment of these models become widespread in many intelligence-based applications. Most recently, DNNs are attacked through Trojan which can effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan

Although great progress has been made on adversarial attacks for deep neural networks (DNNs), their transferability is still unsatisfactory, especially for targeted attacks. There are two problems behind that have been long overlooked: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Lianli Gao , Qilong Zhang , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

Large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed, but their substantial compute demands make them vulnerable to inference cost attacks that aim to deliberately maximize the output length. In this work, we investigate a distinct attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaobei Yan , Yiming Li , Hao Wang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

Adversarial bit-flip attack (BFA) on Neural Network weights can result in catastrophic accuracy degradation by flipping a very small number of bits. A major drawback of prior bit flip attack techniques is their reliance on test data. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Behnam Ghavami , Mani Sadati , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Zhenman Fang , Lesley Shannon

Security of machine learning is increasingly becoming a major concern due to the ubiquitous deployment of deep learning in many security-sensitive domains. Many prior studies have shown external attacks such as adversarial examples that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Fan Yao , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Deliang Fan

Adversarial attacks on Neural Network weights, such as the progressive bit-flip attack (PBFA), can cause a catastrophic degradation in accuracy by flipping a very small number of bits. Furthermore, PBFA can be conducted at run time on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jingtao Li , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan , Chaitali Chakrabarti

Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many application domains requiring high reliability.We propose the fault sneaking attack on DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Pu Zhao , Siyue Wang , Cheng Gongye , Yanzhi Wang , Yunsi Fei , Xue Lin

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) have attracted substantial attention recently, in which an adversary could tamper with a small number of model parameter bits to break the integrity of DNNs. To mitigate such threats, a batch of defense methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jialai Wang , Ziyuan Zhang , Meiqi Wang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Qi Li , Zongpeng Li , Tao Wei , Chao Zhang

Despite the rising prevalence of deep neural networks (DNNs) in cyber-physical systems, their vulnerability to adversarial bit-flip attacks (BFAs) is a noteworthy concern. This paper proposes B3FA, a semi-black-box BFA-based parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Behnam Ghavami , Mani Sadati , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton
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