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Adversarial patch-based attacks aim to fool a neural network with an intentionally generated noise, which is concentrated in a particular region of an input image. In this work, we perform an in-depth analysis of different patch generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Svetlana Pavlitskaya , Jonas Hendl , Sebastian Kleim , Leopold Müller , Fabian Wylczoch , J. Marius Zöllner

Modern software systems are increasingly complex, presenting significant challenges in quality assurance. Just-in-time vulnerability prediction (JIT-VP) is a proactive approach to identifying vulnerable commits and providing early warnings…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Duong Nguyen , Thanh Le-Cong , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar , Quyet-Thang Huynh

Software vendors often silently release security patches without providing sufficient advisories (e.g., Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) or delayed updates via resources (e.g., National Vulnerability Database). Therefore, it has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xin-Cheng Wen , Zirui Lin , Cuiyun Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Yong Wang , Qing Liao

With the increasingly rapid development of new malicious computer software by bad faith actors, both commercial and research-oriented antivirus detectors have come to make greater use of machine learning tactics to identify such malware as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Hamish Spencer , Wei Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue

Inter-VM RowHammer is an attack that induces a bitflip beyond the boundaries of virtual machines (VMs) to compromise a VM from another, and some software-based techniques have been proposed to mitigate this attack. Evaluating these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hidemasa Kawasaki , Soramichi Akiyama

Adversarial patch attacks inject localized perturbations into images to mislead deep vision models. These attacks can be physically deployed, posing serious risks to real-world applications. In this paper, we propose CertMask, a certifiably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xuntao Lyu , Ching-Chi Lin , Abdullah Al Arafat , Georg von der Brüggen , Jian-Jia Chen , Zhishan Guo

We consider protection problems in multilayer networks. In single-layer networks, a pair of disjoint paths can be used to provide protection for a source-destination pair. However, this approach cannot be directly applied to layered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-01 Marzieh Parandehgheibi , Hyang-Won Lee , Eytan Modiano

Adversarial attacks in the physical world pose a significant threat to the security of vision-based systems, such as facial recognition and autonomous driving. Existing adversarial patch methods primarily focus on improving attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Chaoqun Li , Huanqian Yan , Lifeng Zhou , Tairan Chen , Zhuodong Liu , Hang Su

Adversarial patches pose a realistic threat model for physical world attacks on autonomous systems via their perception component. Autonomous systems in safety-critical domains such as automated driving should thus contain a fail-safe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Maksym Yatsura

Repositories of large software systems have become commonplace. This massive expansion has resulted in the emergence of various problems in these software platforms including identification of (i) bug-prone packages, (ii) critical bugs, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Rima Hazra , Arpit Dwivedi , Animesh Mukherjee

Multi-stage interconnection networks (MIN) can be designed to achieve fault tolerance and collision solving by providing a set of disjoint paths. In this paper, we are discussing the new simulator added to the tool designed for developing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Ravi Rastogi , Amit Singh , Nikhil Singhal , Nitin , Durg Singh Chauhan

Backdoor attacks pose a severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs) by implanting hidden backdoors that can be activated with predefined triggers to manipulate model behaviors maliciously. Recent studies have extended backdoor attacks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Feng , Dingxin Zhang , Runkai Zhao , Yong Xia , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

Test-based automatic program repair has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, the test suites in practice are often too weak to guarantee correctness and existing approaches often generate a large number of incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yingfei Xiong , Xinyuan Liu , Muhan Zeng , Lu Zhang , Gang Huang

As vision-based machine learning models are increasingly integrated into autonomous and cyber-physical systems, concerns about (physical) adversarial patch attacks are growing. While state-of-the-art defenses can achieve certified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Khalili , Seongbin Park , Venkat Bollapragada , Nader Sehatbakhsh

Autonomous vehicles increasingly utilize the vision-based perception module to acquire information about driving environments and detect obstacles. Correct detection and classification are important to ensure safe driving decisions.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Wenjun Zhu , Xiaoyu Ji , Yushi Cheng , Shibo Zhang , Wenyuan Xu

Adversarial attacks meticulously generate minuscule, imperceptible perturbations to images to deceive neural networks. Counteracting these, adversarial purification methods seek to transform adversarial input samples into clean output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Sitong Liu , Zhichao Lian , Shuangquan Zhang , Liang Xiao

The perpetual opposition between antiviruses and malware leads both parties to evolve continuously. On the one hand, antiviruses put in place solutions that are more and more sophisticated and propose more complex detection techniques in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Cédric Herzog , Valérie Viet Triem Tong , Pierre Wilke , Arnaud van Straaten , Jean-Louis Lanet

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep neural networks, particularly as recent advancements have led to increasingly subtle implantation, making the defense more challenging. Existing defense mechanisms typically rely on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yukai Xu , Yujie Gu , Kouichi Sakurai

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in physical adversarial attacks, which aim to craft deployable patterns for deceiving deep neural networks, especially for person detectors. However, the adversarial patterns of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jikang Cheng , Ying Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zou Qin , Chen Li

Identifying shortest paths between nodes in a network is an important task in many applications. Recent work has shown that a malicious actor can manipulate a graph to make traffic between two nodes of interest follow their target path. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld