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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

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), excelling in tasks like text generation and summarization. However, their increasing adoption in mission-critical applications raises concerns about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Sanjay Das , Swastik Bhattacharya , Souvik Kundu , Shamik Kundu , Anand Menon , Arnab Raha , Kanad Basu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety and security critical applications, raising concerns about their robustness to model parameter fault injection attacks. Recent studies have shown that bit-flip attacks (BFAs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jingkai Guo , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

Neural networks have emerged as essential components in safety-critical applications -- these use cases demand complex, yet trustworthy computations. Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a type of neural network where each neuron is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiong Yang , Yong Kiam Tan , Mate Soos , Magnus O. Myreen , Kuldeep S. Meel

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

Prior attacks on graph neural networks have mostly focused on graph poisoning and evasion, neglecting the network's weights and biases. Traditional weight-based fault injection attacks, such as bit flip attacks used for convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Lorenz Kummer , Samir Moustafa , Nils N. Kriege , Wilfried N. Gansterer

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

Neural networks are increasingly employed in safety-critical domains. This has prompted interest in verifying or certifying logically encoded properties of neural networks. Prior work has largely focused on checking existential properties,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Teodora Baluta , Shiqi Shen , Shweta Shinde , Kuldeep S. Meel , Prateek Saxena

Deep learning has become a promising programming paradigm in software development, owing to its surprising performance in solving many challenging tasks. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in practice, but are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Min Zhang , Taolue Chen , Jun Sun

QNNVerifier is the first open-source tool for verifying implementations of neural networks that takes into account the finite word-length (i.e. quantization) of their operands. The novel support for quantization is achieved by employing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Xidan Song , Edoardo Manino , Luiz Sena , Erickson Alves , Eddie de Lima Filho , Iury Bessa , Mikel Lujan , Lucas Cordeiro

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) are increasingly used for efficient deployment of deep learning models on resource-constrained platforms, such as mobile devices and edge computing systems. While quantization reduces model size and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

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

Formal verification of neural networks is an active topic of research, and recent advances have significantly increased the size of the networks that verification tools can handle. However, most methods are designed for verification of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mathias Lechner , Đorđe Žikelić

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) deployed on memristive crossbar arrays provide energy-efficient solutions for edge computing but are susceptible to physical attacks due to memristor nonvolatility. Recently, Rajendran et al. (IEEE Embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bijeet Basak , Nupur Patil , Kurian Polachan , Srinivas Vivek

Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) have emerged as a promising solution for reducing model size and computational costs, making them well-suited for deployment in edge and resource-constrained environments. While quantization is known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful for cognitive tasks such as image classification, object detection, and scene segmentation. One drawback however is the significant high computational complexity and memory consumption, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yongqi Xu , Yujian Lee , Gao Yi , Bosheng Liu , Yucong Chen , Peng Liu , Jigang Wu , Xiaoming Chen , Yinhe Han

The success of Deep Learning and its potential use in many safety-critical applications has motivated research on formal verification of Neural Network (NN) models. In this context, verification involves proving or disproving that an NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Rudy Bunel , Jingyue Lu , Ilker Turkaslan , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli , M. Pawan Kumar

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

We give a formal verification procedure that decides whether a classifier ensemble is robust against arbitrary randomized attacks. Such attacks consist of a set of deterministic attacks and a distribution over this set. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Dennis Gross , Nils Jansen , Guillermo A. Pérez , Stephan Raaijmakers