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Adversarial extraction attacks constitute an insidious threat against Deep Learning (DL) models in-which an adversary aims to steal the architecture, parameters, and hyper-parameters of a targeted DL model. Existing extraction attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-01 William Hackett , Stefan Trawicki , Zhengxin Yu , Neeraj Suri , Peter Garraghan

Side-channel analysis (SCA) poses a real-world threat by exploiting unintentional physical signals to extract secret information from secure devices. Evaluation labs also use the same techniques to certify device security. In recent years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sengim Karayalçin , Marina Krček , Stjepan Picek

Neural networks are valuable intellectual property due to the significant computational cost, expert labor, and proprietary data involved in their development. Consequently, protecting their parameters is critical not only for maintaining a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ashley Kurian , Aydin Aysu

Utilization of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, especially Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, becomes a widely accepted standard in many domains more particularly IoT-based systems. DNN models reach impressive performances in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Raphaël Joud , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Rémi Bernhard , Jean-Baptiste Rigaud

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

Deep neural networks are becoming popular and important assets of many AI companies. However, recent studies indicate that they are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks can be either white-box or black-box. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yun Xiang , Zhuangzhi Chen , Zuohui Chen , Zebin Fang , Haiyang Hao , Jinyin Chen , Yi Liu , Zhefu Wu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky

More accurate capacitance extraction is demanded for designing integrated circuits under advanced process technology. The pattern matching approach and the field solver for capacitance extraction have the drawbacks of inaccuracy and large…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Haoyuan Li , Dingcheng Yang , Chunyan Pei , Wenjian Yu

Machine learning models are shown to face a severe threat from Model Extraction Attacks, where a well-trained private model owned by a service provider can be stolen by an attacker pretending as a client. Unfortunately, prior works focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Bang Wu , Xiangwen Yang , Shirui Pan , Xingliang Yuan

Machine learning is being increasingly used by individuals, research institutions, and corporations. This has resulted in the surge of Machine Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) - cloud services that provide (a) tools and resources to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Varun Chandrasekaran , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Irene Giacomelli , Somesh Jha , Songbai Yan

As deep learning gains popularity, edge IoT devices have seen proliferating deployment of pre-trained Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. These DNNs represent valuable intellectual property and face significant confidentiality threats from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Ruyi Ding , Cheng Gongye , Davis Ranney , Aidong Adam Ding , Yunsi Fei

We argue that the machine learning problem of model extraction is actually a cryptanalytic problem in disguise, and should be studied as such. Given oracle access to a neural network, we introduce a differential attack that can efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Nicholas Carlini , Matthew Jagielski , Ilya Mironov

In recent years, deep learning has shown impressive performance on many tasks. However, recent researches showed that deep learning systems are vulnerable to small, specially crafted perturbations that are imperceptible to humans. Images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hao Ge , Xiaoguang Tu , Mei Xie , Zheng Ma

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) models become one of the most valuable enterprise assets due to their critical roles in all aspects of applications. With the trend of privatization deployment of DNN models, the data leakage of the DNN models is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yuankun Zhu , Yueqiang Cheng , Husheng Zhou , Yantao Lu

Securing neural networks (NNs) against model extraction and parameter exfiltration attacks is an important problem primarily because modern NNs take a lot of time and resources to build and train. We observe that there are no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nivedita Shrivastava , Smruti R. Sarangi

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

Various studies among side-channel attacks have tried to extract information through leakages from electronic devices to reach the instruction flow of some appliances. However, previous methods highly depend on the resolution of traced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Pouya Narimani , Seyed Amin Habibi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

Analog compute-in-memory (CIM) systems are promising for deep neural network (DNN) inference acceleration due to their energy efficiency and high throughput. However, as the use of DNNs expands, protecting user input privacy has become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ziyu Wang , Yuting Wu , Yongmo Park , Sangmin Yoo , Xinxin Wang , Jason K. Eshraghian , Wei D. Lu

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations-small changes crafted deliberately on the input to mislead the model for wrong predictions. Adversarial attacks have disastrous consequences for deep learning-empowered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Ruyi Ding , Cheng Gongye , Siyue Wang , Aidong Ding , Yunsi Fei

New data processing pipelines and novel network architectures increasingly drive the success of deep learning. In consequence, the industry considers top-performing architectures as intellectual property and devotes considerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Sanghyun Hong , Michael Davinroy , Yiğitcan Kaya , Dana Dachman-Soled , Tudor Dumitraş