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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

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in critical domains has spurred extensive research into their security issues. While input manipulation attacks (e.g., prompt injection) have been well studied, Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haotian Xu , Qingsong Peng , Jie Shi , Huadi Zheng , Yu Li , Cheng Zhuo

Foundation models represent the most prominent and recent paradigm shift in artificial intelligence. Foundation models are large models, trained on broad data that deliver high accuracy in many downstream tasks, often without fine-tuning.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Hondamunige Prasanna Silva , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari

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

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

Machine learning models are increasingly used in fields that require high reliability such as cybersecurity. However, these models remain vulnerable to various attacks, among which the adversarial label-flipping attack poses significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Xinglong Chang , Gillian Dobbie , Jörg Wicker

As neural networks become the tool of choice to solve an increasing variety of problems in our society, adversarial attacks become critical. The possibility of generating data instances deliberately designed to fool a network's analysis can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Gabriel D. Cantareira , Rodrigo F. Mello , Fernando V. Paulovich

Adversarial attacks have long been developed for revealing the vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by adding imperceptible perturbations to the input. Most methods generate perturbations like normal noise, which is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zhixing Ye , Sizhe Chen , Peidong Zhang , Chengjin Sun , Xiaolin Huang

This work presents CaFA, a system for Cost-aware Feasible Attacks for assessing the robustness of neural tabular classifiers against adversarial examples realizable in the problem space, while minimizing adversaries' effort. To this end,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Matan Ben-Tov , Daniel Deutch , Nave Frost , Mahmood Sharif

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to tolerate "brain damage": cumulative changes to the network's parameters (e.g., pruning, numerical perturbations) typically result in a graceful degradation of classification accuracy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sanghyun Hong , Pietro Frigo , Yiğitcan Kaya , Cristiano Giuffrida , Tudor Dumitraş

Machine Learning using neural networks has received prominent attention recently because of its success in solving a wide variety of computational tasks, in particular in the field of computer vision. However, several works have drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 C. A. Martínez-Mejía , J. Solano , J. Breier , D. Bucko , X. Hou

We investigate the vulnerability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to bit-flip attacks (BFAs) by introducing an analytical framework to study the influence of architectural features, graph properties, and their interaction. The expressivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Lorenz Kummer , Wilfried N. Gansterer , Nils M. Kriege

Recent advances in machine learning show that neural models are vulnerable to minimally perturbed inputs, or adversarial examples. Adversarial algorithms are optimization problems that minimize the accuracy of ML models by perturbing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Thomas Cilloni , Charles Walter , Charles Fleming

Prior attacks on graph neural networks have mostly focused on graph poisoning and evasion, neglecting the network's weights and biases. Traditional weight-based fault injection attacks, such as bit flip attacks used for convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Lorenz Kummer , Samir Moustafa , Nils N. Kriege , Wilfried N. Gansterer

Deep neural networks have been known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are inputs that are modified slightly to fool the network into making incorrect predictions. This has led to a significant amount of research on evaluating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Alireza Abdollahpoorrostam , Mahed Abroshan , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

Recent adversarial attack developments have made reinforcement learning more vulnerable, and different approaches exist to deploy attacks against it, where the key is how to choose the right timing of the attack. Some work tries to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang Li , Quan Pan , Erik Cambria

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

As Machine Learning (ML) applications rapidly grow, concerns about adversarial attacks compromising their reliability have gained significant attention. One unsupervised ML method known for its resilience to such attacks is Non-negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Minh Vu , Ben Nebgen , Erik Skau , Geigh Zollicoffer , Juan Castorena , Kim Rasmussen , Boian Alexandrov , Manish Bhattarai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are now commonly used in many domains. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: carefully crafted perturbations on data inputs that can fool a model into making incorrect predictions. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Nilaksh Das , Haekyu Park , Zijie J. Wang , Fred Hohman , Robert Firstman , Emily Rogers , Duen Horng Chau

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,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jiawang Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Shu-tao Xia