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Neural Networks are infamously sensitive to small perturbations in their inputs, making them vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This project evaluates the performance of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) as a purification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Lars Lien Ankile , Anna Midgley , Sebastian Weisshaar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial perturbation, where an imperceptible perturbation is added to the image that can fool the DNNs. Diffusion-based adversarial purification focuses on using the diffusion model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai

Side-channel analysis (SCA) can obtain information related to the secret key by exploiting leakages produced by the device. Researchers recently found that neural networks (NNs) can execute a powerful profiling SCA, even on targets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Fiske Schijlen , Lichao Wu , Luca Mariot

As a critical task in data quality control, claim verification aims to curb the spread of misinformation by assessing the truthfulness of claims based on a wide range of evidence. However, traditional methods often overlook the complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hanghui Guo , Shimin Di , Pasquale De Meo , Zhangze Chen , Jia Zhu

Deep Neural Networks have proven to be highly accurate at a variety of tasks in recent years. The benefits of Deep Neural Networks have also been embraced in power grids to detect False Data Injection Attacks (FDIA) while conducting…

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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

Extracting the architecture of layers of a given deep neural network (DNN) through hardware-based side channels allows adversaries to steal its intellectual property and even launch powerful adversarial attacks on the target system. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mahya Morid Ahmadi , Lilas Alrahis , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Muhammad Shafique

Detection and quantification of information leaks through timing side channels are important to guarantee confidentiality. Although static analysis remains the prevalent approach for detecting timing side channels, it is computationally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerny , Sriram Sankaranarayanan , Ashutosh Trivedi

Over the last years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the dominating neural architecture in a wide range of computer vision tasks. From an image and signal processing point of view, this success might be a bit surprising as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Julia Grabinski , Steffen Jung , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Model extraction attacks have been widely applied, which can normally be used to recover confidential parameters of neural networks for multiple layers. Recently, side-channel analysis of neural networks allows parameter extraction even for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jakub Breier , Dirmanto Jap , Xiaolu Hou , Shivam Bhasin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. In Natural Language Processing (NLP), DNNs are often backdoored during the fine-tuning process of a large-scale Pre-trained Language Model (PLM) with poisoned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhiyuan Zhang , Lingjuan Lyu , Xingjun Ma , Chenguang Wang , Xu Sun

Profiled side-channel analysis (SCA) leverages leakage from cryptographic implementations to extract the secret key. When combined with advanced methods in neural networks (NNs), profiled SCA can successfully attack even those crypto-cores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Rabin Yu Acharya , Fatemeh Ganji , Domenic Forte

Self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) effectively learns transferable representations from unlabeled data containing images or image-text pairs but suffers vulnerability to data poisoning backdoor attacks (DPCLs). An adversary can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tuo Chen , Jie Gui , Minjing Dong , Ju Jia , Lanting Fang , Jian Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial attacks that place carefully crafted perturbations on normal examples to fool DNNs. To better understand such attacks, a characterization of the features carried by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rui Zheng , Yuhao Zhou , Zhiheng Xi , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications including autonomous vehicles and medical diagnostics. To reduce the residual risk for unexpected DNN behaviour and provide evidence for their trustworthy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Hasan Ferit Eniser , Simos Gerasimou , Alper Sen

With wider application of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various algorithms and frameworks, security threats have become one of the concerns. Adversarial attacks disturb DNN-based image classifiers, in which attackers can intentionally add…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jinyi Wang , Zhaoyang Lyu , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai , Hongfei Fu

Backdoor attacks are emerging threats to deep neural networks, which typically embed malicious behaviors into a victim model by injecting poisoned samples. Adversaries can activate the injected backdoor during inference by presenting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Bingyin Zhao , Yingjie Lao

The great performance of machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks in several perception and control tasks is pushing the industry to adopt such technologies in safety-critical applications, as autonomous robots and self-driving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Deep learning is gaining importance in many applications. However, Neural Networks face several security and privacy threats. This is particularly significant in the scenario where Cloud infrastructures deploy a service with Neural Network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Vasisht Duddu , Debasis Samanta , D Vijay Rao , Valentina E. Balas