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Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

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As Large Language Models (LLMs) play an increasingly pivotal role in natural language processing applications, their safety concerns become critical areas of NLP research. This paper presents Safety and Over-Defensiveness Evaluation (SODE)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Neeraj Varshney , Pavel Dolin , Agastya Seth , Chitta Baral

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep learning models by implanting hidden vulnerabilities that can be activated by malicious inputs. While numerous defenses have been proposed to mitigate these attacks, the heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gorka Abad , Marina Krček , Stefanos Koffas , Behrad Tajalli , Marco Arazzi , Roberto Riaño , Xiaoyun Xu , Zhuoran Liu , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

The vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks remains a critical security challenge. Traditional defenses, such as adversarial training, typically robustify models by minimizing a worst-case loss. However, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-13 Pablo G. Arce , Roi Naveiro , David Ríos Insua

Fairness in machine learning is more important than ever as ethical concerns continue to grow. Individual fairness demands that individuals differing only in sensitive attributes receive the same outcomes. However, commonly used machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruihan Zhang , Jun Sun

Since Deep Learning (DL) backdoor attacks have been revealed as one of the most insidious adversarial attacks, a number of countermeasures have been developed with certain assumptions defined in their respective threat models. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Huming Qiu , Hua Ma , Zhi Zhang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Wei Kang , Anmin Fu , Yansong Gao

Object detection models are critical components of automated systems, such as autonomous vehicles and perception-based robots, but their sensitivity to adversarial attacks poses a serious security risk. Progress in defending these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Alexis Winter , Jean-Vincent Martini , Romaric Audigier , Angelique Loesch , Bertrand Luvison

As network security issues continue gaining prominence, password security has become crucial in safeguarding personal information and network systems. This study first introduces various methods for system password cracking, outlines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jiazhi Mo , Hailu Kuang , Xiaoqi Li

Cyberbullying is a widespread adverse phenomenon among online social interactions in today's digital society. While numerous computational studies focus on enhancing the cyberbullying detection performance of machine learning algorithms,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Oguzhan Gencoglu

Detecting cyber-anomalies and attacks are becoming a rising concern these days in the domain of cybersecurity. The knowledge of artificial intelligence, particularly, the machine learning techniques can be used to tackle these issues.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Iqbal H. Sarker

Privacy concerns have led to the development of privacy-preserving approaches for learning models from sensitive data. Yet, in practice, even models learned with privacy guarantees can inadvertently memorize unique training examples or leak…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Mario Diaz , Peter Kairouz , Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar

Despite considerable efforts on making them robust, real-world AI-based systems remain vulnerable to decision based attacks, as definitive proofs of their operational robustness have so far proven intractable. Canonical robustness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ilias Tsingenopoulos , Vera Rimmer , Davy Preuveneers , Fabio Pierazzi , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Wouter Joosen

Adversarial machine learning, i.e., increasing the robustness of machine learning algorithms against so-called adversarial examples, is now an established field. Yet, newly proposed methods are evaluated and compared under unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Maximilian Samsinger , Florian Merkle , Pascal Schöttle , Tomas Pevny

Machine Learning is becoming a pivotal aspect of many systems today, offering newfound performance on classification and prediction tasks, but this rapid integration also comes with new unforeseen vulnerabilities. To harden these systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ahmed Abdou , Ryan Sheatsley , Yohan Beugin , Tyler Shipp , Patrick McDaniel

Despite the extent of recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Neural Networks, providing formal guarantees on the behavior of these systems is still an open problem, and a crucial requirement for their adoption in regulated or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Matteo Francobaldi , Michele Lombardi

Model stealing attacks present a dilemma for public machine learning APIs. To protect financial investments, companies may be forced to withhold important information about their models that could facilitate theft, including uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mantas Mazeika , Bo Li , David Forsyth

Many of the successes of machine learning are based on minimizing an averaged loss function. However, it is well-known that this paradigm suffers from robustness issues that hinder its applicability in safety-critical domains. These issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Alexander Robey , Luiz F. O. Chamon , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

Adversarial attacks for machine learning models have become a highly studied topic both in academia and industry. These attacks, along with traditional security threats, can compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jakub Breier , Adrian Baldwin , Helen Balinsky , Yang Liu

The increasing application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models poses potential risks of unfair behavior and, in light of recent regulations, has attracted the attention of the research community. Several researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Giandomenico Cornacchia , Vito Walter Anelli , Fedelucio Narducci , Azzurra Ragone , Eugenio Di Sciascio

Deep learning methods have shown state of the art performance in a range of tasks from computer vision to natural language processing. However, it is well known that such systems are vulnerable to attackers who craft inputs in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Giulio Zizzo , Chris Hankin , Sergio Maffeis , Kevin Jones