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Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are often deployed in resource-sharing clouds as Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) to provide inference services.To steal model architectures that are of valuable intellectual properties, a class of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yansong Gao , Huming Qiu , Zhi Zhang , Binghui Wang , Hua Ma , Alsharif Abuadbba , Minhui Xue , Anmin Fu , Surya Nepal

High-performance Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in many real-world applications e.g., cloud prediction APIs. Recent advances in model functionality stealing attacks via black-box access (i.e., inputs in, predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Backdoor attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a significant security threat, allowing adversaries to implant hidden malicious behaviors during the model training phase. Pre-processing-based defense, which is one of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yukun Chen , Shuo Shao , Enhao Huang , Yiming Li , Pin-Yu Chen , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

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

Pre-trained Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are increasingly used in smartphones and other user devices to enable prediction services, leading to potential disclosures of (sensitive) information from training data captured inside these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Fan Mo , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Kleomenis Katevas , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on compute-in-memory (CiM) accelerators offers significant energy savings and speed-up by reducing data movement during inference. However, the reliability of CiM-based systems is challenged by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Akul Malhotra , Sumeet Kumar Gupta

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in real-world applications, yet they remain vulnerable to errors and adversarial attacks. Formal verification offers a systematic approach to identify and mitigate these vulnerabilities, enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Avraham Raviv , Yael Leibovich Weiss , Omer Cohen , Roy Assa , Guy Katz , Hillel Kugler

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), such as the convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have been successfully applied in the field of computer vision, they are demonstrated to be vulnerable to well-sought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Fahad Alrasheedi , Xin Zhong

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNN) are vulnerable to adversarial samples: maliciously-perturbed samples crafted to yield incorrect model outputs. Such attacks can severely undermine DNN systems, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Ji Gao , Beilun Wang , Zeming Lin , Weilin Xu , Yanjun Qi

With the advancement of vision transformers (ViTs) and self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques, pre-trained large ViTs have become the new foundation models for computer vision applications. However, studies have shown that, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Weijie Zheng , Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

This work presents an in-depth analysis of the majority of the deep neural networks (DNNs) proposed in the state of the art for image recognition. For each DNN multiple performance indices are observed, such as recognition accuracy, model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Simone Bianco , Remi Cadene , Luigi Celona , Paolo Napoletano

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have accomplished impressive success in various applications, including autonomous driving perception tasks, in recent years. On the other hand, current deep neural networks are easily fooled by adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ibrahim Sobh , Ahmed Hamed , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

As the deployment of deep learning models continues to expand across industries, the threat of malicious incursions aimed at gaining access to these deployed models is on the rise. Should an attacker gain access to a deployed model, whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Wenxin Ding , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

Ensuring robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is crucial to their adoption in safety-critical applications such as self-driving cars, drones, and healthcare. Notably, DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks in which small input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Sanchari Sen , Balaraman Ravindran , Anand Raghunathan

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models under the coordination of a central server, while maintaining privacy. However, the server cannot directly monitor the local training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Binbin Ding , Penghui Yang , Sheng-Jun Huang

Numerous recent studies have demonstrated how Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers can be fooled by adversarial examples, in which an attacker adds perturbations to an original sample, causing the classifier to misclassify the sample.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Yigit Alparslan , Ken Alparslan , Jeremy Keim-Shenk , Shweta Khade , Rachel Greenstadt

Malicious architecture extraction has been emerging as a crucial concern for deep neural network (DNN) security. As a defense, architecture obfuscation is proposed to remap the victim DNN to a different architecture. Nonetheless, we observe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Tong Zhou , Shaolei Ren , Xiaolin Xu

Recent increases in the computational demands of deep neural networks (DNNs) have sparked interest in efficient deep learning mechanisms, e.g., quantization or pruning. These mechanisms enable the construction of a small, efficient version…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini , Alexey Kurakin

The reliability evaluation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) executed on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) is a challenging problem since the hardware architecture is highly complex and the software frameworks are composed of many layers of…

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to the training process of deep neural networks (DNNs). As a widely-used DNN-based application in real-world scenarios, face recognition systems once implanted into the backdoor, may cause serious…

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