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The device-edge co-inference paradigm effectively bridges the gap between the high resource demands of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and limited device resources, making it a promising solution for advancing edge GNN applications. Existing…

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Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to perturbations of the graph structure that are either random, or, adversarially designed. The perturbed links modify the graph neighborhoods, which critically affects the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Attack paths are the potential chain of malicious activities an attacker performs to compromise network assets and acquire privileges through exploiting network vulnerabilities. Attack path analysis helps organizations to identify…

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Nowadays, Deep Learning as a service can be deployed in Internet of Things (IoT) to provide smart services and sensor data processing. However, recent research has revealed that some Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can be easily misled by adding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ling Wang , Cheng Zhang , Zejian Luo , Chenguang Liu , Jie Liu , Xi Zheng , Athanasios Vasilakos

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics-aware adversarial attack problem of adaptive neural networks. Most existing adversarial attack algorithms are designed under a basic assumption -- the network architecture is fixed throughout the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , Yingqi Wang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Graph neural networks frequently encounter significant performance degradation when confronted with structural noise or non-homophilous topologies. To address these systemic vulnerabilities, we present AdvSynGNN, a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rong Fu , Muge Qi , Chunlei Meng , Shuo Yin , Kun Liu , Zhaolu Kang , Simon Fong

Graph Attention Networks(GATs) are useful deep learning models to deal with the graph data. However, recent works show that the classical GAT is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. It degrades dramatically with slight perturbations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xianchen Zhou , Yaoyun Zeng , Hongxia Wang

Prior studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of Deep Learning (DL) in automated software vulnerability detection. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven effective in learning the graph representations of source code and are commonly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Xin-Cheng Wen , Yupan Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Jie M. Zhang , Qing Liao

Graph-based models learn rich code graph structural information and present superior performance on various code analysis tasks. However, the robustness of these models against adversarial example attacks in the context of vulnerability…

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Anomaly detection in dynamic networks is critical for applications from cybersecurity to industrial monitoring, yet existing methods face challenges in energy efficiency, temporal precision, and adaptability. This paper introduces…

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In this paper, we propose a framework of filter-based ensemble of deep neuralnetworks (DNNs) to defend against adversarial attacks. The framework builds an ensemble of sub-models -- DNNs with differentiated preprocessing filters. From the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Renjue Li , Hanwei Zhang , Pengfei Yang , Cheng-Chao Huang , Aimin Zhou , Bai Xue , Lijun Zhang

Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) accross a wide range of applications, adversarial attacks against these models have proven to be an indisputable threat. Adversarial samples are crafted with a deliberate intention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Valentina Zantedeschi , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Ambrish Rawat

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have recently emerged as a significant security challenge for a cyber-physical system due to their stealthy, dynamic and adaptive nature. Proactive dynamic defenses provide a strategic and holistic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Linan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received much attention in the graph deep learning domain. However, recent research empirically and theoretically shows that deep GNNs suffer from over-fitting and over-smoothing problems. The usual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Chuxiong Sun , Jie Hu , Hongming Gu , Jinpeng Chen , Mingchuan Yang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve the state-of-the-art on graph-relevant tasks such as node and graph classification. However, recent works show GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations include the perturbation on edges, nodes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiate Li , Binghui Wang

Large language models are susceptible to jailbreak attacks, which can result in the generation of harmful content. While prior defenses mitigate these risks by perturbing or inspecting inputs, they ignore competing objectives, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Quan Liu , Zhenhong Zhou , Longzhu He , Yi Liu , Wei Zhang , Sen Su

Given a large enterprise network of devices and their authentication history (e.g., device logons), how can we quantify network vulnerability to lateral attack and identify at-risk devices? We systematically address these problems through…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Scott Freitas , Andrew Wicker , Duen Horng Chau , Joshua Neil

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown prominent performance in semi-supervised node classification by leveraging knowledge from the graph database. However, most existing GNNs follow the homophily assumption, where connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Henan Sun , Xunkai Li , Zhengyu Wu , Daohan Su , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention due to its successful applications on various graph-structure data. However, recent studies have shown that adversarial attacks are threatening the functionality of GNNs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Mingming Lu , Ya Zhang