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Many adversarial attacks have been proposed to investigate the security issues of deep neural networks. In the black-box setting, current model stealing attacks train a substitute model to counterfeit the functionality of the target model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Jun-Hai Yong

Model extraction is a severe threat to Machine Learning-as-a-Service systems, especially through data-free approaches, where dishonest users can replicate the functionality of a black-box target model without access to realistic data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dat-Thinh Nguyen , Kim-Hung Le , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Machine Learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks and will highly likely produce incorrect outputs under these attacks. There are white-box and black-box attacks regarding to adversary's access level to the victim learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Saeid Samizade , Zheng-Hua Tan , Chao Shen , Xiaohong Guan

Machine learning models trained on confidential datasets are increasingly being deployed for profit. Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has made such models easily accessible to end-users. Prior work has developed model extraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Soham Pal , Yash Gupta , Aditya Shukla , Aditya Kanade , Shirish Shevade , Vinod Ganapathy

Machine learning has seen tremendous advances in the past few years, which has lead to deep learning models being deployed in varied applications of day-to-day life. Attacks on such models using perturbations, particularly in real-life…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Siddhant Bhambri , Sumanyu Muku , Avinash Tulasi , Arun Balaji Buduru

This paper investigates a class of attacks targeting the confidentiality aspect of security in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies. Recent research have established the vulnerability of supervised machine learning models (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Vahid Behzadan , William Hsu

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A practical adversarial attack should require as little as possible knowledge of attacked models. Current substitute attacks need pre-trained models to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mingyi Zhou , Jing Wu , Yipeng Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Shuaicheng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Ce Zhu

Machine unlearning algorithms, designed for selective removal of training data from models, have emerged as a promising approach to growing privacy concerns. In this work, we expose a critical yet underexplored vulnerability in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yangsibo Huang , Daogao Liu , Lynn Chua , Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Milad Nasr , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have gained significant popularity in the last decade for solving narrow AI problems in domains such as healthcare, transportation, and defense. As ANNs become more ubiquitous, it is imperative to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tommy Li , Cory Merkel

The privacy of machine learning models has become a significant concern in many emerging Machine-Learning-as-a-Service applications, where prediction services based on well-trained models are offered to users via pay-per-query. The lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xun Xian , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

Deep learning-based object detection has become ubiquitous in the last decade due to its high accuracy in many real-world applications. With this growing trend, these models are interested in being attacked by adversaries, with most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Pham Phuc , Son Vuong , Khang Nguyen , Tuan Dang

The deep neural network is vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adding imperceptible adversarial perturbations to images is enough to make them fail. Most existing research focuses on attacking image classifiers or anchor-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Quanyu Liao , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Siwei Lyu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to model stealing attacks, which allows a data-limited adversary with no knowledge of the training dataset to clone the functionality of a target model, just by using black-box query access. Such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Sanjay Kariyappa , Moinuddin K Qureshi

Cloud vendors are increasingly offering machine learning services as part of their platform and services portfolios. These services enable the deployment of machine learning models on the cloud that are offered on a pay-per-query basis to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Manish Kesarwani , Bhaskar Mukhoty , Vijay Arya , Sameep Mehta

Model extraction attacks aim to replicate the functionality of a black-box model through query access, threatening the intellectual property (IP) of machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) providers. Defending against such attacks is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xueqi Cheng , Minxing Zheng , Shixiang Zhu , Yushun Dong

Among adversarial attacks against sequential recommender systems, model extraction attacks represent a method to attack sequential recommendation models without prior knowledge. Existing research has primarily concentrated on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hui Zhang , Fu Liu

The increasing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks has led to the adoption of machine learning based classification techniques, at the core of cybersecurity systems. These techniques promise scale and accuracy, which traditional rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic , Joung Woo Ryu

Many deployed learned models are black boxes: given input, returns output. Internal information about the model, such as the architecture, optimisation procedure, or training data, is not disclosed explicitly as it might contain proprietary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Seong Joon Oh , Max Augustin , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Object detection models perform well at localizing and classifying objects that they are shown during training. However, due to the difficulty and cost associated with creating and annotating detection datasets, trained models detect a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ayush Jaiswal , Yue Wu , Pradeep Natarajan , Premkumar Natarajan

In Machine Learning, White Box Adversarial Attacks rely on knowing underlying knowledge about the model attributes. This works focuses on discovering to distrinct pieces of model information: the underlying architecture and primary training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Josh Kalin , Matthew Ciolino , David Noever , Gerry Dozier