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Neuromorphic computing based on spiking neural networks (SNNs) is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering unique advantages in terms of low power consumption. However, the security…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Spyridon Raptis , Paul Kling , Ioannis Kaskampas , Ihsen Alouani , Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos

When the training data are maliciously tampered, the predictions of the acquired deep neural network (DNN) can be manipulated by an adversary known as the Trojan attack (or poisoning backdoor attack). The lack of robustness of DNNs against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Ren Wang , Gaoyuan Zhang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinjun Xiong , Meng Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention due to their superior performance in deep learning on graph-structured data. GNNs have succeeded across various domains such as social networks, chemistry, and electronic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Lilas Alrahis , Satwik Patnaik , Muhammad Shafique , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Software-exploitable Hardware Trojans (HTs) enable attackers to execute unauthorized software or gain illicit access to privileged operations. This manuscript introduces a hardware-based methodology for detecting runtime HT activations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alessandro Palumbo , Ruben Salvador

The participation of third-party entities in the globalized semiconductor supply chain introduces potential security vulnerabilities, such as intellectual property piracy and hardware Trojan (HT) insertion. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Lilas Alrahis , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Hardware Trojans are malicious modifications in digital designs that can be inserted by untrusted supply chain entities. Hardware Trojans can give rise to diverse attack vectors such as information leakage (e.g. MOLES Trojan) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tanzim Mahfuz , Pravin Gaikwad , Tasneem Suha , Swarup Bhunia , Prabuddha Chakraborty

Hardware Trojans (HTs) have drawn more and more attention in both academia and industry because of its significant potential threat. In this paper, we proposed a novel HT detection method using information entropy based clustering, named…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Renjie Lu , Haihua Shen , Feng Zhang , Huawei Li , Wei Zhao , Xiaowei Li

This work focuses on advancing security research in the hardware design space by formally defining the realistic problem of Hardware Trojan (HT) detection. The goal is to model HT detection more closely to the real world, i.e., describing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Amin Sarihi , Ahmad Patooghy , Peter Jamieson , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy

The threat of hardware Trojans (HTs) and their detection is a widely studied field. While the effort for inserting a Trojan into an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) can be considered relatively high, especially when trusting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Thilo Krachenfels , Jean-Pierre Seifert , Shahin Tajik

This work focuses on advancing security research in the hardware design space by formally defining the realistic problem of Hardware Trojan (HT) detection. The goal is to model HT detection more closely to the real world, i.e., describing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Amin Sarihi , Ahmad Patooghy , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Peter Jamieson

Machine learning has shown great promise in addressing several critical hardware security problems. In particular, researchers have developed novel graph neural network (GNN)-based techniques for detecting intellectual property (IP) piracy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Vasudev Gohil , Satwik Patnaik , Dileep Kalathil , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

With the rising popularity of machine learning and the ever increasing demand for computational power, there is a growing need for hardware optimized implementations of neural networks and other machine learning models. As the technology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Joseph Clements , Yingjie Lao

Many fabless semiconductor companies outsource their designs to third-party fabrication houses. As trustworthiness of chain after outsourcing including fabrication houses is not established, any adversary in between, with malicious intent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Ramakrishna Vaikuntapu , Vineet Sahula , Lava Bhargava

The risk of hardware Trojans being inserted at various stages of chip production has increased in a zero-trust fabless era. To counter this, various machine learning solutions have been developed for the detection of hardware Trojans. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Rahul Vishwakarma , Amin Rezaei

The threat of hardware Trojans (HTs) in security-critical IPs like cryptographic accelerators poses severe security risks. The HT detection methods available today mostly rely on golden models and detailed circuit specifications. Often they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Anna Lena Duque Antón , Johannes Müller , Lucas Deutschmann , Mohammad Rahmani Fadiheh , Dominik Stoffel , Wolfgang Kunz

Recently, it has been shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to Trojan attacks, where an attacker can install a backdoor during training time to make the resultant model misidentify samples contaminated with a small trigger patch.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Haripriya Harikumar , Vuong Le , Santu Rana , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

We present a hardware-accelerated hit filtering system employing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for the Belle II Level-1 Trigger. The GNN exploits spatial and temporal relationships among sense wire…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-10 Greta Heine , Fabio Mayer , Marc Neu , Jürgen Becker , Torben Ferber

Traditional learning-based approaches for run-time Hardware Trojan detection require complex and expensive on-chip data acquisition frameworks and thus incur high area and power overhead. To address these challenges, we propose to leverage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Faiq Khalid , Syed Rafay Hasan , Sara Zia , Osman Hasan , Falah Awwad , Muhammad Shafique

Despite their success and popularity, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable when facing backdoor attacks. This impedes their wider adoption, especially in mission critical applications. This paper tackles the problem of Trojan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xiaoling Hu , Xiao Lin , Michael Cogswell , Yi Yao , Susmit Jha , Chao Chen

Timely detection of Hardware Trojans (HTs) has become a major challenge for secure integrated circuits. We present a run-time methodology for HT detection that employs a multi-parameter statistical traffic modeling of the communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Faiq Khalid , Syed Rafay Hasan , Osman Hasan , Muhammad Shafique