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Several important security issues of Deep Neural Network (DNN) have been raised recently associated with different applications and components. The most widely investigated security concern of DNN is from its malicious input, a.k.a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) represent a serious threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where flipping a small number of bits in the model parameters or binary code can significantly degrade the model accuracy or mislead the model prediction in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xiaobei Yan , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed on real-world devices. Concerns regarding their security have gained great attention from researchers. Recently, a new weight modification attack called bit flip attack (BFA) was proposed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jianshuo Dong , Han Qiu , Yiming Li , Tianwei Zhang , Yuanjie Li , Zeqi Lai , Chao Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

Model integrity of Large language models (LLMs) has become a pressing security concern with their massive online deployment. Prior Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) -- a class of popular AI weight memory fault-injection techniques -- can severely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jingkai Guo , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

To explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), many attack paradigms have been well studied, such as the poisoning-based backdoor attack in the training stage and the adversarial attack in the inference stage. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jiawang Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Yong Zhang , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

To explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), many attack paradigms have been well studied, such as the poisoning-based backdoor attack in the training stage and the adversarial attack in the inference stage. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jiawang Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Shu-tao Xia

Deep neural network models are massively deployed on a wide variety of hardware platforms. This results in the appearance of new attack vectors that significantly extend the standard attack surface, extensively studied by the adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Kevin Hector , Mathieu Dumont , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre

Adversarial bit-flip attack (BFA) on Neural Network weights can result in catastrophic accuracy degradation by flipping a very small number of bits. A major drawback of prior bit flip attack techniques is their reliance on test data. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Behnam Ghavami , Mani Sadati , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Zhenman Fang , Lesley Shannon

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful machine learning method for graph-structured data. A plethora of hardware accelerators has been introduced to meet the performance demands of GNNs in real-world applications. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sanaz Kazemi Abharian , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Traditional Deep Neural Network (DNN) security is mostly related to the well-known adversarial input example attack. Recently, another dimension of adversarial attack, namely, attack on DNN weight parameters, has been shown to be very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Jingtao Li , Fan Yao , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

Adversarial attacks on Neural Network weights, such as the progressive bit-flip attack (PBFA), can cause a catastrophic degradation in accuracy by flipping a very small number of bits. Furthermore, PBFA can be conducted at run time on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jingtao Li , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan , Chaitali Chakrabarti

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) have attracted substantial attention recently, in which an adversary could tamper with a small number of model parameter bits to break the integrity of DNNs. To mitigate such threats, a batch of defense methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jialai Wang , Ziyuan Zhang , Meiqi Wang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Qi Li , Zongpeng Li , Tao Wei , Chao Zhang

Security of machine learning is increasingly becoming a major concern due to the ubiquitous deployment of deep learning in many security-sensitive domains. Many prior studies have shown external attacks such as adversarial examples that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Fan Yao , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Deliang Fan

Targeted bit-flip attacks (BFAs) exploit hardware faults to manipulate model parameters, posing a significant security threat. While prior work targets single-step inference models (e.g., image classifiers), LLM-based agents with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jialai Wang , Ya Wen , Zhongmou Liu , Yuxiao Wu , Bingyi He , Zongpeng Li , Ee-Chien Chang

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advances and are increasingly deployed in critical applications across diverse domains. This growing adoption raises urgent concerns about their security and robustness.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Abeer Matar A. Almalky , Ziyan Wang , Mohaiminul Al Nahian , Li Yang , Adnan Siraj Rakin

Generative Artificial Intelligence models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Models (VLMs), exhibit state-of-the-art performance but remain vulnerable to hardware-based threats, specifically bit-flip attacks (BFAs).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Khurram Khalil , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) can manipulate deep neural networks (DNNs). For high-level DNN models running on deep learning (DL) frameworks like PyTorch, extensive BFAs have been used to flip bits in model weights and shown effective. Defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yanzuo Chen , Zhibo Liu , Yuanyuan Yuan , Sihang Hu , Tianxiang Li , Shuai Wang

Despite the rising prevalence of deep neural networks (DNNs) in cyber-physical systems, their vulnerability to adversarial bit-flip attacks (BFAs) is a noteworthy concern. This paper proposes B3FA, a semi-black-box BFA-based parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Behnam Ghavami , Mani Sadati , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton

Large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed, but their substantial compute demands make them vulnerable to inference cost attacks that aim to deliberately maximize the output length. In this work, we investigate a distinct attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaobei Yan , Yiming Li , Hao Wang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

Recently, Bit-Flip Attack (BFA) has garnered widespread attention for its ability to compromise software system integrity remotely through hardware fault injection. With the widespread distillation and deployment of large language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yu Yan , Siqi Lu , Yang Gao , Zhaoxuan Li , Ziming Zhao , Qingjun Yuan , Yongjuan Wang
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