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Neural networks have revolutionized various domains, exhibiting remarkable accuracy in tasks like natural language processing and computer vision. However, their vulnerability to slight alterations in input samples poses challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Cybersecurity solutions have shown promising performance when detecting ransomware samples that use fixed algorithms and encryption rates. However, due to the current explosion of Artificial Intelligence (AI), sooner than later, ransomware…

Since communication signals are publicly exposed while they transmit across space, Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are where secured communication is most crucial. Unfortunately, these systems are more open to intrusions that range from passive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-01 B. Murugeshwari , R. Amirthavalli , C. Bharathi Sri , S. Neelavathy Pari

In this paper, we propose a new key-based defense focusing on both efficiency and robustness. Although the previous key-based defense seems effective in defending against adversarial examples, carefully designed adaptive attacks can bypass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Isao Echizen , Hitoshi Kiya

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) has evolved as an effective solution for authenticating devices by leveraging the unique imperfections in hardware components involved in the signal generation process. In this work, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Raju Dhakal , Prashant Shekhar , Laxima Niure Kandel

Cryptography and data science research grew exponential with the internet boom. Legacy encryption techniques force users to make a trade-off between usability, convenience, and security. Encryption makes valuable data inaccessible, as it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Aadesh Neupane

Domain Name Service is a trusted protocol made for name resolution, but during past years some approaches have been developed to use it for data transfer. DNS Tunneling is a method where data is encoded inside DNS queries, allowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Franco Palau , Carlos Catania , Jorge Guerra , Sebastian Garcia , Maria Rigaki

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), the third generation neural networks, are known for their low energy consumption and high robustness. SNNs are developing rapidly and can compete with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in many fields. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lingxin Jin , Meiyu Lin , Wei Jiang , Jinyu Zhan

Incorporating fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) into the inference process of a convolutional neural network (CNN) draws enormous attention as a viable approach for achieving private inference (PI). FHE allows delegating the entire…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jaiyoung Park , Donghwan Kim , Jongmin Kim , Sangpyo Kim , Wonkyung Jung , Jung Hee Cheon , Jung Ho Ahn

Inspired by the human brain's structure and function, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) were developed for data classification. However, existing Neural Networks, including Deep Neural Networks, do not mimic the brain's rich structure. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Remya Ajai A S , Nithin Nagaraj

As long as human beings exist on this earth, there will be confidential images intended for limited audience. These images have to be transmitted in such a way that no unauthorized person gets knowledge of them. DNA sequences play a vital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Grasha Jacob , A. Murugan

Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many application domains requiring high reliability.We propose the fault sneaking attack on DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Pu Zhao , Siyue Wang , Cheng Gongye , Yanzhi Wang , Yunsi Fei , Xue Lin

NeuraCrypt (Yara et al. arXiv 2021) is an algorithm that converts a sensitive dataset to an encoded dataset so that (1) it is still possible to train machine learning models on the encoded data, but (2) an adversary who has access only to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Nicholas Carlini , Sanjam Garg , Somesh Jha , Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody , Florian Tramer

We propose two training techniques for improving the robustness of Neural Networks to adversarial attacks, i.e. manipulations of the inputs that are maliciously crafted to fool networks into incorrect predictions. Both methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Ginevra Carbone , Guido Sanguinetti , Luca Bortolussi

When malware employs an unseen zero-day exploit, traditional security measures such as vulnerability scanners and antivirus software can fail to detect them. This is because these tools rely on known patches and signatures, which do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jinting Zhu , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Ian Welch , Harith AI-Sahaf , Seyit Camtepe , Aeryn Dunmore , Cybersecurity Lab

Neural Ranking Models (NRMs) are central to modern information retrieval but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial manipulation. Existing attacks often rely on heuristics or surrogate models, limiting effectiveness and transferability. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Amin Bigdeli , Amir Khosrojerdi , Radin Hamidi Rad , Morteza Zihayat , Charles L. A. Clarke , Ebrahim Bagheri

We consider a class of Gaussian layered networks where a source communicates with a destination through $L$ intermediate relay layers with $N$ nodes in each layer in the presence of a single eavesdropper which can overhear the transmissions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Tulika Agrawal , Samar Agnihotri

In this paper, detection of deception attack on deep neural network (DNN) based image classification in autonomous and cyber-physical systems is considered. Several studies have shown the vulnerability of DNN to malicious deception attacks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Darpan Kumar Yadav , Kartik Mundra , Rahul Modpur , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Indra Narayan Kar

Although self-attention based models such as Transformers have achieved remarkable successes on natural language processing (NLP) tasks, recent studies reveal that they have limitations on modeling sequential transformations (Hahn, 2020),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Xiaobing Sun , Wei Lu

Due to the highly parallelizable architecture, Transformer is faster to train than RNN-based models and popularly used in machine translation tasks. However, at inference time, each output word requires all the hidden states of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Chengyi Wang , Shuangzhi Wu , Shujie Liu