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This paper investigates the vulnerability of spiking neural networks (SNNs) and federated learning (FL) to backdoor attacks using neuromorphic data. Despite the efficiency of SNNs and the privacy advantages of FL, particularly in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek , Aitor Urbieta

While significant research advances have been made in the field of deep reinforcement learning, there have been no concrete adversarial attack strategies in literature tailored for studying the vulnerability of deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Maziar Gomrokchi , Susan Amin , Hossein Aboutalebi , Alexander Wong , Doina Precup

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which are data points cleverly constructed to fool the classifier. Such attacks can be devastating in practice, especially as DNNs are being applied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Linh Nguyen , Sky Wang , Arunesh Sinha

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown great promise in various domains. However, vulnerabilities associated with DNN training, such as backdoor attacks, are a significant concern. These attacks involve the subtle insertion of triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Bart Pleiter , Behrad Tajalli , Stefanos Koffas , Gorka Abad , Jing Xu , Martha Larson , Stjepan Picek

As pairwise ranking becomes broadly employed for elections, sports competitions, recommendations, and so on, attackers have strong motivation and incentives to manipulate the ranking list. They could inject malicious comparisons into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Jinshan Zeng , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Back-door attack poses a severe threat to deep learning systems. It injects hidden malicious behaviors to a model such that any input stamped with a special pattern can trigger such behaviors. Detecting back-door is hence of pressing need.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Guangyu Shen , Yingqi Liu , Guanhong Tao , Shengwei An , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

As in-the-wild data are increasingly involved in the training stage, machine learning applications become more susceptible to data poisoning attacks. Such attacks typically lead to test-time accuracy degradation or controlled misprediction.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Yun Shen , Cong Wang , Yang Zhang

Property inference attacks allow an adversary to extract global properties of the training dataset from a machine learning model. Such attacks have privacy implications for data owners sharing their datasets to train machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Harsh Chaudhari , John Abascal , Alina Oprea , Matthew Jagielski , Florian Tramèr , Jonathan Ullman

Traditional deep learning models implicity encode knowledge limiting their transparency and ability to adapt to data changes. Yet, this adaptability is vital for addressing user data privacy concerns. We address this limitation by storing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sebastian Doerrich , Tobias Archut , Francesco Di Salvo , Christian Ledig

Neural networks are widely known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a method that poisons a portion of the training data to make the target model perform well on normal data sets, while outputting attacker-specified or random categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yong Li , Han Gao

We suggest a robust nearest-neighbor approach to classifying high-dimensional data. The method enhances sensitivity by employing a threshold and truncates to a sequence of zeros and ones in order to reduce the deleterious impact of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-02 Yao-ban Chan , Peter Hall

Backdoor attacks represent a serious threat to neural network models. A backdoored model will misclassify the trigger-embedded inputs into an attacker-chosen target label while performing normally on other benign inputs. There are already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jing Xu , Minhui , Xue , Stjepan Picek

Data-driven neighborhood definitions and graph constructions are often used in machine learning and signal processing applications. k-nearest neighbor~(kNN) and $\epsilon$-neighborhood methods are among the most common methods used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful in learning rich network representations that aid the performance of downstream tasks. However, recent studies showed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks involving node injection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Ansh Kumar Sharma , Rahul Kukreja , Mayank Kharbanda , Tanmoy Chakraborty

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

Minimizing risk with fairness constraints is one of the popular approaches to learning a fair classifier. Recent works showed that this approach yields an unfair classifier if the training set is corrupted. In this work, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Changhun Jo , Jy-yong Sohn , Kangwook Lee

In this paper, we proposed a general framework for data poisoning attacks to graph-based semi-supervised learning (G-SSL). In this framework, we first unify different tasks, goals, and constraints into a single formula for data poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Xuanqing Liu , Si Si , Xiaojin Zhu , Yang Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh

It is well-known that deep learning models are vulnerable to small input perturbations. Such perturbed instances are called adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are commonly crafted to fool a model either at training time (poisoning)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ege Erdogan , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

Data mining has various real-time applications in fields such as finance telecommunications, biology, and government. Classification is a primary task in data mining. With the rise of cloud computing, users can outsource and access their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Gunjan Mishra , Kalyani Pathak , Yash Mishra , Pragati Jadhav , Vaishali Keshervani

Robustness is an increasingly important property of machine learning models as they become more and more prevalent. We propose a defense against adversarial examples based on a k-nearest neighbor (kNN) on the intermediate activation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Chawin Sitawarin , David Wagner