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Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Prior defenses attempted to make deep networks more robust by either changing the network architecture or augmenting the training set with adversarial examples, but both have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Yongshuai Liu , Jiyu Chen , Hao Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are pivotal in image classification tasks due to their robust feature extraction capabilities. However, their high computational and memory requirements pose challenges for deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nathan Isong

Model extraction is a growing concern for the security of AI systems. For deep neural network models, the architecture is the most important information an adversary aims to recover. Being a sequence of repeated computation blocks, neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Raphael Joud , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Simon Pontie , Jean-Baptiste Rigaud

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

This paper proposes a straightforward and cost-effective approach to assess whether a deep neural network (DNN) relies on the primary concepts of training samples or simply learns discriminative, yet simple and irrelevant features that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Mohammad Mahdi Mehmanchi , Mahbod Nouri , Mohammad Sabokrou

Multi-bit quantization networks enable flexible deployment of deep neural networks by supporting multiple precision levels within a single model. However, existing approaches suffer from significant training overhead as full-dataset updates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jinhee Kim , Jae Jun An , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

Deep neural networks are valuable assets considering their commercial benefits and huge demands for costly annotation and computation resources. To protect the copyright of DNNs, backdoor-based ownership verification becomes popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Guanhao Gan , Yiming Li , Dongxian Wu , Shu-Tao Xia

Classifying hand-written digits and letters has taken a big leap with the introduction of ConvNets. However, on very constrained hardware the time necessary to train such models would be high. Our main contribution is twofold. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Tidor-Vlad Pricope

Model stealing attacks have become a serious concern for deep learning models, where an attacker can steal a trained model by querying its black-box API. This can lead to intellectual property theft and other security and privacy risks. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kacem Khaled , Mouna Dhaouadi , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Gabriela Nicolescu

Model pruning, i.e., removing a subset of model weights, has become a prominent approach to reducing the memory footprint of large language models (LLMs) during inference. Notably, popular inference engines, such as vLLM, enable users to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kazuki Egashira , Robin Staab , Thibaud Gloaguen , Mark Vero , Martin Vechev

Recent advances in deep learning have made available large, powerful convolutional neural networks (CNN) with state-of-the-art performance in several real-world applications. Unfortunately, these large-sized models have millions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Giosuè Cataldo Marinò , Gregorio Ghidoli , Marco Frasca , Dario Malchiodi

Developing strong AI signifies the arrival of technological singularity, contributing greatly to advancing human civilization and resolving social issues. Neural networks (NNs) and deep learning, which utilize NNs, are expected to lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Kei Itoh

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a class of deep neural networks designed to utilize minimal computational resources, which drives their popularity across various applications. Recent studies highlight the potential of mapping BNN model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Gokulnath Rajendran , Suman Deb , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Previous work showed empirically that large neural networks can be significantly reduced in size while preserving their accuracy. Model compression became a central research topic, as it is crucial for deployment of neural networks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Ben Mussay , Margarita Osadchy , Vladimir Braverman , Samson Zhou , Dan Feldman

Networks provide useful tools for analyzing diverse complex systems from natural, social, and technological domains. Growing size and variety of data such as more nodes and links and associated weights, directions, and signs can provide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Furkan Gursoy , Bertan Badur

Training a machine learning model over an encrypted dataset is an existing promising approach to address the privacy-preserving machine learning task, however, it is extremely challenging to efficiently train a deep neural network (DNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Runhua Xu , James Joshi , Chao Li

Deep neural networks can be unreliable in the real world when the training set does not adequately cover all the settings where they are deployed. Focusing on image classification, we consider the setting where we have an error distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Sahil Singla , Atoosa Malemir Chegini , Mazda Moayeri , Soheil Feiz

This paper examines the vulnerabilities of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to adversarial attacks and explores a method for their safeguarding. In this study, CNNs were implemented on four of the most common image datasets, namely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Koushik Chowdhury

Recently, an extensive amount of research has been focused on compressing and accelerating Deep Neural Networks (DNN). So far, high compression rate algorithms require part of the training dataset for a low precision calibration, or a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Matan Haroush , Itay Hubara , Elad Hoffer , Daniel Soudry

Compared to traditional neural networks with a single output channel, a multi-exit network has multiple exits that allow for early outputs from the model's intermediate layers, thus significantly improving computational efficiency while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Li Pan , Lv Peizhuo , Chen Kai , Zhang Shengzhi , Cai Yuling , Xiang Fan