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Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

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Reachable set computation is an important tool for analyzing control systems. Simulating a control system can show general trends, but a formal tool like reachability analysis can provide guarantees of correctness. Reachability analysis for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Chelsea Sidrane , Jana Tumova

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

While much of the current research in deep learning-based vulnerability detection relies on disassembled binaries, this paper explores the feasibility of extracting features directly from raw x86-64 machine code. Although assembly language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mitchell Petingola

The ability to detect faults is an important safety feature for event-based multi-agent systems. In most existing algorithms, each agent tries to detect faults by checking its own behavior. But what if one agent becomes unable to recognize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Alexander Gräfe , Dominik Baumann , Sebastian Trimpe

Topic-controllable summarization is an emerging research area with a wide range of potential applications. However, existing approaches suffer from significant limitations. For example, the majority of existing methods built upon recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tatiana Passali , Grigorios Tsoumakas

For any stream of time-stamped edges that form a dynamic network, an important choice is the aggregation granularity that an analyst uses to bin the data. Picking such a windowing of the data is often done by hand, or left up to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Benjamin Fish , Rajmonda S. Caceres

Language-based information flow methods offer a principled way to enforce strong security properties, but enforcing noninterference is too inflexible for realistic applications. Security-typed languages have therefore introduced…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Aslan Askarov , Andrew Myers

Testing is the primary approach for detecting software defects. A major challenge faced by testers lies in crafting efficient test suites, able to detect a maximum number of bugs with manageable effort. To do so, they rely on coverage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michaël Marcozzi , Sébastien Bardin , Nikolai Kosmatov , Mike Papadakis , Virgile Prevosto , Loïc Correnson

Assessing the capabilities and risks of frontier AI systems is a critical area of research, and recent work has shown that repeated sampling from models can dramatically increase both. For instance, repeated sampling has been shown to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Joshua Kazdan , Rylan Schaeffer , Youssef Allouah , Colin Sullivan , Kyssen Yu , Noam Levi , Sanmi Koyejo

Smart contracts concentrate high value assets and complex logic in small, immutable programs, where even minor bugs can cause major losses. Existing taxonomies and tools remain fragmented, organized around symptoms such as reentrancy rather…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Parsa Hedayatnia , Tina Tavakkoli , Hadi Amini , Mohammad Allahbakhsh , Haleh Amintoosi

Diffusion models build a new milestone for image generation yet raising public concerns, for they can be fine-tuned on unauthorized images for customization. Protection based on adversarial attacks rises to encounter this unauthorized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Boyang Zheng , Chumeng Liang , Xiaoyu Wu

Desktops and laptops can be maliciously exploited to violate privacy. In this paper, we consider the daily battle between the passive attacker who is targeting a specific user against a user that may be adversarial opponent. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amit Dvir , Yehonatan Zion , Jonathan Muehlstein , Ofir Pele , Chen Hajaj , Ran Dubin

In security-sensitive applications, the success of machine learning depends on a thorough vetting of their resistance to adversarial data. In one pertinent, well-motivated attack scenario, an adversary may attempt to evade a deployed system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Battista Biggio , Igino Corona , Davide Maiorca , Blaine Nelson , Nedim Srndic , Pavel Laskov , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

Neural Networks are used today in numerous security- and safety-relevant domains and are, as such, a popular target of attacks that subvert their classification capabilities, by manipulating the network parameters. Prior work has introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Amel Nestor Docena , Thomas Wahl , Trevor Pearce , Yunsi Fei

Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) serves as a fundamental technique for various software engineering tasks, e.g., vulnerability detection and classification. Attacks against such models have therefore drawn extensive attention, aiming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mingjie Chen , Tiancheng Zhu , Mingxue Zhang , Yiling He , Minghao Lin , Penghui Li , Kui Ren

Numerous analysis methods for quantitative attack tree analysis have been proposed. These algorithms compute relevant security metrics, i.e. performance indicators that quantify how good the security of a system is, such as the most likely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Carlos E. Budde , Mariëlle Stoelinga

When a bug is detected by testing a quantum program on a quantum computer, we want to determine its location to fix it. To locate the bug, the quantum program is divided into several segments, and each segment is tested. However, to prepare…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Naoto Sato , Ryota Katsube

We argue that the vulnerability of model parameters is of crucial value to the study of model robustness and generalization but little research has been devoted to understanding this matter. In this work, we propose an indicator to measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Xu Sun , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Ruixuan Luo , Liangyou Li

In this work we investigate the problem of simultaneous privacy and integrity protection in cryptographic circuits. We consider a white-box scenario with a powerful, yet limited attacker. A concise metric for the level of probing and fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-27 Berndt M. Gammel , Stefan Mangard