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Pre-trained encoders are general-purpose feature extractors that can be used for many downstream tasks. Recent progress in self-supervised learning can pre-train highly effective encoders using a large volume of unlabeled data, leading to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yupei Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Hongbin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Conventional adversarial defenses reduce classification accuracy whether or not a model is under attacks. Moreover, most of image processing based defenses are defeated due to the problem of obfuscated gradients. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya

Being able to identify functions of interest in cross-architecture software is useful whether you are analysing for malware, securing the software supply chain or conducting vulnerability research. Cross-Architecture Binary Code Similarity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Josh Collyer , Tim Watson , Iain Phillips

In the context of adversarial robustness, a single model does not usually have enough power to defend against all possible adversarial attacks, and as a result, has sub-optimal robustness. Consequently, an emerging line of work has focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Dinghuai Zhang , Hongyang Zhang , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio , Pradeep Ravikumar , Arun Sai Suggala

Supervised learning-based adversarial attack detection methods rely on a large number of labeled data and suffer significant performance degradation when applying the trained model to new domains. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yi Li , Plamen Angelov , Neeraj Suri

Tensor-valued data arise frequently from a wide variety of scientific applications, and many among them can be translated into an alteration detection problem of tensor dependence structures. In this article, we formulate the problem under…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-16 Li Ma , Shenghao Qin , Yin Xia

Malicious server (MS) attacks have enabled the scaling of data stealing in federated learning to large batch sizes and secure aggregation, settings previously considered private. However, many concerns regarding the client-side…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kostadin Garov , Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Nikola Jovanović , Martin Vechev

Adversarial attacks against machine learning models have threatened various real-world applications such as spam filtering and sentiment analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, learning to DIScriminate Perturbations (DISP),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yichao Zhou , Jyun-Yu Jiang , Kai-Wei Chang , Wei Wang

Cache side channel attacks are increasingly alarming in modern processors due to the recent emergence of Spectre and Meltdown attacks. A typical attack performs intentional cache access and manipulates cache states to leak secrets by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Luyi Li , Jiayi Huang , Lang Feng , Zhongfeng Wang

Persistent Fault Attack (PFA) is a recently proposed Fault Attack (FA) method in CHES 2018. It is able to recover full AES secret key in the Single-Byte-Fault scenario. It is demonstrated that classical FA countermeasures, such as Dual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yukun Cheng , Mengce Zheng , Fan Huang , Jiajia Zhang , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

This article investigates the security issue caused by false data injection attacks in distributed estimation, wherein each sensor can construct two types of residues based on local estimates and neighbor information, respectively. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Jiahao Huang , Marios M. Polycarpou , Wen Yang , Fangfei Li , Yang Tang

In the area of natural language processing, deep learning models are recently known to be vulnerable to various types of adversarial perturbations, but relatively few works are done on the defense side. Especially, there exists few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Xiaosen Wang , Hao Jin , Yichen Yang , Kun He

Self-supervised representation learning (SSL) has attained SOTA results on several downstream speech tasks, but SSL-based speech enhancement (SE) solutions still lag behind. To address this issue, we exploit three main ideas: (i)…

Neural backdoor attack is emerging as a severe security threat to deep learning, while the capability of existing defense methods is limited, especially for complex backdoor triggers. In the work, we explore the space formed by the pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Ximing Qiao , Yukun Yang , Hai Li

This paper employs an audit bit based mechanism to mitigate the effect of Byzantine attacks. In this framework, the optimal attacking strategy for intelligent attackers is investigated for the traditional audit bit based scheme (TAS) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Chen Quan , Baocheng Geng , Yunghsiang S. Han , Pramod K. Varshney

Decision-based attacks (DBA), wherein attackers perturb inputs to spoof learning algorithms by observing solely the output labels, are a type of severe adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) requiring minimal knowledge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zhuosheng Zhang , Shucheng Yu

Recent study of adversarial attacks has revealed the vulnerability of modern deep learning models. That is, subtly crafted perturbations of the input can make a trained network with high accuracy produce arbitrary incorrect predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xiao Wang , Siyue Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Xue Lin , Peter Chin

Fault injection attacks are a potent threat against embedded implementations of neural network models. Several attack vectors have been proposed, such as misclassification, model extraction, and trojan/backdoor planting. Most of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrik Velčický , Jakub Breier , Mladen Kovačević , Xiaolu Hou

Backdoor attacks (BAs) are an emerging threat to deep neural network classifiers. A victim classifier will predict to an attacker-desired target class whenever a test sample is embedded with the same backdoor pattern (BP) that was used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

In this paper, we introduce the idea of using adversarially-generated samples of the input images that were classified as deepfakes by a detector, to form perturbation masks for inferring the importance of different input features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Konstantinos Tsigos , Evlampios Apostolidis , Vasileios Mezaris