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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have enabled smart applications on hardware devices. However, these hardware devices are vulnerable to unintended faults caused by aging, temperature variance, and write errors. These faults can cause bit-flips…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Ninnart Fuengfusin , Hakaru Tamukoh

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) in real-world environments poses challenges due to faults that can manifest in physical hardware from radiation, aging, and temperature fluctuations. To address this, previous works have focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Ninnart Fuengfusin , Hakaru Tamukoh

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being applied in malware detection and their robustness has been widely debated. Traditionally an adversarial example generation scheme relies on either detailed model information (gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sun RuiJin , Guo ShiZe , Guo JinHong , Xing ChangYou , Yang LuMing , Guo Xi , Pan ZhiSong

With deep learning deployed in many security-sensitive areas, machine learning security is becoming progressively important. Recent studies demonstrate attackers can exploit system-level techniques exploiting the RowHammer vulnerability of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ranyang Zhou , Sabbir Ahmed , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Shaahin Angizi

Deep neural network models are massively deployed on a wide variety of hardware platforms. This results in the appearance of new attack vectors that significantly extend the standard attack surface, extensively studied by the adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Kevin Hector , Mathieu Dumont , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre

Adversarial examples pose significant threats to deep neural networks (DNNs), and their property of transferability in the black-box setting has led to the emergence of transfer-based attacks, making it feasible to target real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yuyang Luo , Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Yingzhe He

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) represent a serious threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where flipping a small number of bits in the model parameters or binary code can significantly degrade the model accuracy or mislead the model prediction in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xiaobei Yan , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary manipulates a small portion of training data such that the victim model predicts normally on the benign samples but classifies the triggered samples as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yinghua Gao , Yiming Li , Xueluan Gong , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia , Qian Wang

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) have recently attracted significant interest due to their computational efficiency. Concurrently, it has been shown that neural networks may be overly sensitive to "attacks" - tiny adversarial changes in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Elias B. Khalil , Amrita Gupta , Bistra Dilkina

Recently developed adversarial weight attack, a.k.a. bit-flip attack (BFA), has shown enormous success in compromising Deep Neural Network (DNN) performance with an extremely small amount of model parameter perturbation. To defend against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Li Yang , Jingtao Li , Fan Yao , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo , Deliang Fan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful machine learning method for graph-structured data. A plethora of hardware accelerators has been introduced to meet the performance demands of GNNs in real-world applications. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sanaz Kazemi Abharian , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Machine learning is a key tool for Android malware detection, effectively identifying malicious patterns in apps. However, ML-based detectors are vulnerable to evasion attacks, where small, crafted changes bypass detection. Despite progress…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mostafa Jafari , Alireza Shameli-Sendi

Targeted bit-flip attacks (BFAs) exploit hardware faults to manipulate model parameters, posing a significant security threat. While prior work targets single-step inference models (e.g., image classifiers), LLM-based agents with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jialai Wang , Ya Wen , Zhongmou Liu , Yuxiao Wu , Bingyi He , Zongpeng Li , Ee-Chien Chang

Recently, Bit-Flip Attack (BFA) has garnered widespread attention for its ability to compromise software system integrity remotely through hardware fault injection. With the widespread distillation and deployment of large language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yu Yan , Siqi Lu , Yang Gao , Zhaoxuan Li , Ziming Zhao , Qingjun Yuan , Yongjuan Wang

Recent advancements in side-channel attacks have revealed the vulnerability of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to malicious adversarial weight attacks. The well-studied RowHammer attack has effectively compromised DNN performance by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ranyang Zhou , Jacqueline T. Liu , Sabbir Ahmed , Shaahin Angizi , Adnan Siraj Rakin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit vulnerability to adversarial examples that can transfer across different DNN models. A particularly challenging problem is developing transferable targeted attacks that can mislead DNN models into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kaisheng Liang , Xuelong Dai , Yanjie Li , Dong Wang , Bin Xiao

Recent studies have shown that Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks, with frequency-domain analysis underscoring the significance of high-frequency components in influencing model predictions. Conversely,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Juanjuan Weng , Zhiming Luo , Shaozi Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to various adversarial perturbations. To address the safety concerns arising from these vulnerabilities, adversarial training (AT) has emerged as one of the most effective paradigms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rui Wang , Zeming Wei , Xiyue Zhang , Meng Sun

We propose HASHTAG, the first framework that enables high-accuracy detection of fault-injection attacks on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with provable bounds on detection performance. Recent literature in fault-injection attacks shows the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mojan Javaheripi , Farinaz Koushanfar

Motivated by the transformative impact of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various domains, researchers and anti-virus vendors have proposed DNNs for malware detection from raw bytes that do not require manual feature engineering. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Keane Lucas , Mahmood Sharif , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter , Saurabh Shintre