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Deep neural networks have played a crucial part in many critical domains, such as autonomous driving, face recognition, and medical diagnosis. However, deep neural networks are facing security threats from backdoor attacks and can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiyang Guan , Jian Liang , Ran He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in many graph mining tasks benefitting from the message passing strategy that fuses the local structure and node features for better graph representation learning. Despite the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Shuiqiao Yang , Bao Gia Doan , Paul Montague , Olivier De Vel , Tamas Abraham , Seyit Camtepe , Damith C. Ranasinghe , Salil S. Kanhere

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary manipulates a small portion of training data such that the victim model predicts normally on the benign samples but classifies the triggered samples as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yinghua Gao , Yiming Li , Xueluan Gong , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia , Qian Wang

Neural network pruning has been an essential technique to reduce the computation and memory requirements for using deep neural networks for resource-constrained devices. Most existing research focuses primarily on balancing the sparsity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xiaoyong Yuan , Lan Zhang

As an increasing number of deep-learning-based malware scanners have been proposed, the existing evasion techniques, including code obfuscation and polymorphic malware, are found to be less effective. In this work, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Lan Zhang , Peng Liu , Yoon-Ho Choi , Ping Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one of the key architectures of deep learning models, have achieved superior performance on many machine learning tasks such as image classification, video recognition, and power systems. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hanxiao Lu , Zeyu Huang , Ren Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing interests. With broad deployments of GNNs in real-world applications, there is an urgent need for understanding the robustness of GNNs under adversarial attacks, especially in realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jiaqi Ma , Junwei Deng , Qiaozhu Mei

Backdoor attacks are rapidly emerging threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). In the backdoor attack scenario, attackers usually implant the backdoor into the target model by manipulating the training dataset or training process. Then, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nan Zhong , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

With the increasing amount of available data and advances in computing capabilities, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully employed to solve challenging tasks in various areas, including healthcare, climate, and finance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Marcele O. K. Mendonça , Javier Maroto , Pascal Frossard , Paulo S. R. Diniz

The vulnerability of deep neural networks against adversarial examples - inputs with small imperceptible perturbations - has gained a lot of attention in the research community recently. Simultaneously, the number of parameters of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Florian Merkle , Maximilian Samsinger , Pascal Schöttle

Neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks, where the attackers maliciously poison the training set and insert triggers into the test input to change the prediction of the victim model. Existing defenses for backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuhao Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

We have witnessed the continuing arms race between backdoor attacks and the corresponding defense strategies on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Most state-of-the-art defenses rely on the statistical sanitization of the "inputs" or "latent DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Hassan Ali , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere , Sanjay Jha

Neural network pruning is an essential approach for reducing the computational complexity of deep models so that they can be well deployed on resource-limited devices. Compared with conventional methods, the recently developed dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Yiping Deng , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful framework for solving complex real-world problems. Large neural networks employed in the framework are traditionally associated with better generalization capabilities, but their increased size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Samin Yeasar Arnob , Riyasat Ohib , Sergey Plis , Doina Precup

Although 3D Convolutional Neural Networks are essential for most learning based applications involving dense 3D data, their applicability is limited due to excessive memory and computational requirements. Compressing such networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhiwei Xu , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Vibhav Vineet , Richard Hartley

This paper presents a novel approach to neural network pruning by integrating a graph-based observation space into an AutoML framework to address the limitations of existing methods. Traditional pruning approaches often depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dieter Balemans , Thomas Huybrechts , Jan Steckel , Siegfried Mercelis

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming commonplace in critical applications, making their susceptibility to backdoor (trojan) attacks a significant problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel backdoor attack detection pipeline, detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Akash Vartak , Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

How to develop slim and accurate deep neural networks has become crucial for real- world applications, especially for those employed in embedded systems. Though previous work along this research line has shown some promising results, most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xin Dong , Shangyu Chen , Sinno Jialin Pan

The recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) for function approximation in reinforcement learning has triggered the development of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms in various fields, such as robotics, computer games,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Dor Livne , Kobi Cohen

Certifiable robustness is a highly desirable property for adopting deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical scenarios, but often demands tedious computations to establish. The main hurdle lies in the massive amount of non-linearity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Tianlong Chen , Huan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Zhangyang Wang