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Trigger set-based watermarking schemes have gained emerging attention as they provide a means to prove ownership for deep neural network model owners. In this paper, we argue that state-of-the-art trigger set-based watermarking algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Suyoung Lee , Wonho Song , Suman Jana , Meeyoung Cha , Sooel Son

In the past decades, the rise of artificial intelligence has given us the capabilities to solve the most challenging problems in our day-to-day lives, such as cancer prediction and autonomous navigation. However, these applications might…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Pargol Golmohammadi , Yassine Mekdad , Mauro Conti , Selcuk Uluagac

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attribution is a critical challenge in cybersecurity and implies the process of accurately identifying the perpetrators behind sophisticated cyber attacks. It can significantly enhance defense mechanisms and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Nanda Rani , Bikash Saha , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Machine learning algorithms are effective in several applications, but they are not as much successful when applied to intrusion detection in cyber security. Due to the high sensitivity to their training data, cyber detectors based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Michele Colajanni , Mirco Marchetti

There are many occasions in which the security community is interested to discover the authorship of malware binaries, either for digital forensics analysis of malware corpora or for thwarting live threats of malware invasion. Such a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Saed Alrabaee , Paria Shirani , Mourad Debbabi , Lingyu Wang

Currently, deep learning models are easily exposed to data leakage risks. As a distributed model, Split Learning thus emerged as a solution to address this issue. The model is splitted to avoid data uploading to the server and reduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zhangting Lin , Mingfu Xue , Kewei Chen , Wenmao Liu , Xiang Gao , Leo Yu Zhang , Jian Wang , Yushu Zhang

In recent years, neural networks have become the default choice for image classification and many other learning tasks, even though they are vulnerable to so-called adversarial attacks. To increase their robustness against these attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Hasan Ferit Eniser , Maria Christakis , Valentin Wüstholz

Image attribution -- matching an image back to a trusted source -- is an emerging tool in the fight against online misinformation. Deep visual fingerprinting models have recently been explored for this purpose. However, they are not robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Maksym Andriushchenko , Xiaoyang Rebecca Li , Geoffrey Oxholm , Thomas Gittings , Tu Bui , Nicolas Flammarion , John Collomosse

Recent work shows that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Much work studies adversarial example generation, while very little work focuses on more critical adversarial defense. Existing adversarial detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Bin Zhu , Zhaoquan Gu , Le Wang , Zhihong Tian

Authorship identification has proven unsettlingly effective in inferring the identity of the author of an unsigned document, even when sensitive personal information has been carefully omitted. In the digital era, individuals leave a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Haining Wang

We present a novel evaluation paradigm for AI text detectors that prioritizes real-world and equitable assessment. Current approaches predominantly report conventional metrics like AUROC, overlooking that even modest false positive rates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Navid Ayoobi , Sadat Shahriar , Arjun Mukherjee

Graph-structured datasets are increasingly central to sensitive applications spanning social networks, biomedical research, and cryptographic systems. As organizations share these datasets with trusted parties for collaborative analysis,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Alexander Nemecek , Emre Yilmaz , Erman Ayday

This paper explores the complexities of automatic detection of software similarities, in relation to the unique challenges of digital artifacts, and introduces Project Martial, an open-source software solution for detecting code similarity.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Rares Folea , Emil Slusanschi

In practice, training language models for individual authors is often expensive because of limited data resources. In such cases, Neural Network Language Models (NNLMs), generally outperform the traditional non-parametric N-gram models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Zhenhao Ge , Yufang Sun , Mark J. T. Smith

Despite the efficiency and scalability of machine learning systems, recent studies have demonstrated that many classification methods, especially deep neural networks (DNNs), are vulnerable to adversarial examples; i.e., examples that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yao Li , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Thomas C. M. Lee

In the age of advanced large language models (LLMs), the boundaries between human and AI-generated text are becoming increasingly blurred. We address the challenge of segmenting mixed-authorship text, that is identifying transition points…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 L. D. M. S. Sai Teja , N. Siva Gopala Krishna , Ufaq Khan , Muhammad Haris Khan , Atul Mishra

The vast amounts of digital content captured from the real world or AI-generated media necessitate methods for copyright protection, traceability, or data provenance verification. Digital watermarking serves as a crucial approach to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Vitaliy Kinakh , Brian Pulfer , Yury Belousov , Pierre Fernandez , Teddy Furon , Slava Voloshynovskiy

The study of Code Stylometry, and in particular Code Authorship Attribution (CAA), aims to analyze coding styles to identify the authors of code samples. CAA is crucial in cybersecurity and software forensics for addressing, detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Atish Kumar Dipongkor , Ziyu Yao , Kevin Moran

In this paper, we present the first large-scale study exploring whether JavaScript code generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) can reveal which model produced it, enabling reliable authorship attribution and model fingerprinting. With…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Norbert Tihanyi , Bilel Cherif , Richard A. Dubniczky , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Tamás Bisztray

Authorship attribution refers to the task of automatically determining the author based on a given sample of text. It is a problem with a long history and has a wide range of application. Building author profiles using language models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Zhenhao Ge , Yufang Sun