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Differentially private (DP) machine learning allows us to train models on private data while limiting data leakage. DP formalizes this data leakage through a cryptographic game, where an adversary must predict if a model was trained on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Milad Nasr , Shuang Song , Abhradeep Thakurta , Nicolas Papernot , Nicholas Carlini

Recent advances in artificial intelligence and the increasing need for powerful defensive measures in the domain of network security, have led to the adoption of deep learning approaches for use in network intrusion detection systems. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Joseph Clements , Yuzhe Yang , Ankur Sharma , Hongxin Hu , Yingjie Lao

This paper presents a game-theoretic framework to study the interactions of attack and defense for deep learning-based NextG signal classification. NextG systems such as the one envisioned for a massive number of IoT devices can employ deep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Yalin E. Sagduyu

Machine learning algorithms are effective in several applications, but they are not as much successful when applied to intrusion detection in cyber security. Due to the high sensitivity to their training data, cyber detectors based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Michele Colajanni , Mirco Marchetti

Due to their massive success in various domains, deep learning techniques are increasingly used to design network intrusion detection solutions that detect and mitigate unknown and known attacks with high accuracy detection rates and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Huda Ali Alatwi , Charles Morisset

In the last decade, deep learning algorithms have become very popular thanks to the achieved performance in many machine learning and computer vision tasks. However, most of the deep learning architectures are vulnerable to so called…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Olga Taran , Shideh Rezaeifar , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Machine learning (ML) is vulnerable to inference (e.g., membership inference, property inference, and data reconstruction) attacks that aim to infer the private information of training data or dataset. Existing defenses are only designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Binghui Zhang , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Recent work has shown that deep-learning algorithms for malware detection are also susceptible to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted perturbations to input malware that enable misleading classification. Although this has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Giovanni Lagorio , Fabio Roli , Alessandro Armando

Operating in a dynamic real world environment requires a forward thinking and adversarial aware design for classifiers, beyond fitting the model to the training data. In such scenarios, it is necessary to make classifiers - a) harder to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic , Lingyu Lyua , Jiashun Chen

In this article I describe a research agenda for securing machine learning models against adversarial inputs at test time. This article does not present results but instead shares some of my thoughts about where I think that the field needs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Ian Goodfellow

The vulnerability of deep networks to adversarial attacks is a central problem for deep learning from the perspective of both cognition and security. The current most successful defense method is to train a classifier using adversarial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-22 Mitch Hill , Jonathan Mitchell , Song-Chun Zhu

Recently published attacks against deep neural networks (DNNs) have stressed the importance of methodologies and tools to assess the security risks of using this technology in critical systems. Efficient techniques for detecting adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Doha Al Bared , Mohamed Nassar

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced substantial security vulnerabilities, highlighting the need for robust Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems (ML-IDS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jing Chen , Onat Gungor , Zhengli Shang , Elvin Li , Tajana Rosing

Adversaries (hackers) attempting to infiltrate networks frequently face uncertainty in their operational environments. This research explores the ability to model and detect when they exhibit ambiguity aversion, a cognitive bias reflecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Stephan Carney , Soham Hans , Sofia Hirschmann , Stacey Marsella , Yvonne Fonken , Peggy Wu , Nikolos Gurney

Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. This poses a security concern about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

The arms race between attacks and defenses for machine learning models has come to a forefront in recent years, in both the security community and the privacy community. However, one big limitation of previous research is that the security…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-27 Liwei Song , Reza Shokri , Prateek Mittal

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

In wireless security, cognitive adversaries are known to inject jamming energy on the victim's frequency band and monitor the same band for countermeasures thereby trapping the victim. Under the class of cognitive adversaries, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Soumita Hazra , J. Harshan

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm in Machine Learning (ML) that addresses data privacy, security, access rights and access to heterogeneous information issues by training a global model using distributed nodes. Despite its advantages,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ranwa Al Mallah , David Lopez , Godwin Badu Marfo , Bilal Farooq

Machine learning is a key tool for Android malware detection, effectively identifying malicious patterns in apps. However, ML-based detectors are vulnerable to evasion attacks, where small, crafted changes bypass detection. Despite progress…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mostafa Jafari , Alireza Shameli-Sendi