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This paper presents channel-aware adversarial attacks against deep learning-based wireless signal classifiers. There is a transmitter that transmits signals with different modulation types. A deep neural network is used at each receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus

We consider a wireless communication system that consists of a transmitter, a receiver, and an adversary. The transmitter transmits signals with different modulation types, while the receiver classifies its received signals to modulation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus

We reveal the theoretical foundations of techniques for editing large language models, and present new methods which can do so without requiring retraining. Our theoretical insights show that a single metric (a measure of the intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Oliver J. Sutton , Qinghua Zhou , Wei Wang , Desmond J. Higham , Alexander N. Gorban , Alexander Bastounis , Ivan Y. Tyukin

We propose a novel method for protecting trained models with a secret key so that unauthorized users without the correct key cannot get the correct inference. By taking advantage of transfer learning, the proposed method enables us to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya

Cellular networks (LTE, 5G, and beyond) are dramatically growing with high demand from consumers and more promising than the other wireless networks with advanced telecommunication technologies. The main goal of these networks is to connect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Murat Kuzlu , Salih Sarp , Evren Catak , Umit Cali

The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain, driven by time-to-market and cost considerations, has made ICs vulnerable to hardware Trojans (HTs). Against this threat, a promising approach is to use Machine Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Behnam Omidi , Khaled N. Khasawneh , Ihsen Alouani

Effective detection of energy theft can prevent revenue losses of utility companies and is also important for smart grid security. In recent years, enabled by the massive fine-grained smart meter data, deep learning (DL) approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiangnan Li , Yingyuan Yang , Jinyuan Stella Sun

Model stealing attacks present a dilemma for public machine learning APIs. To protect financial investments, companies may be forced to withhold important information about their models that could facilitate theft, including uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mantas Mazeika , Bo Li , David Forsyth

Deep neural networks are normally executed in the forward direction. However, in this work, we identify a vulnerability that enables models to be trained in both directions and on different tasks. Adversaries can exploit this capability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Guy Amit , Mosh Levy , Yisroel Mirsky

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Generative AI technology has become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, offering powerful capabilities to enhance productivity. However, these same capabilities can be exploited by adversaries for malicious purposes. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Shang Wang , Bo Liu , Leo Yu Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Yang Zhang

The growing use of third-party hardware accelerators (e.g., FPGAs, ASICs) for deep neural networks (DNNs) introduces new security vulnerabilities. Conventional model-level backdoor attacks, which only poison a model's weights to misclassify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sanskar Amgain , Daniel Lobo , Atri Chatterjee , Swarup Bhunia , Fnu Suya

Accurate channel modeling in real-time faces remarkable challenge due to the complexities of traditional methods such as ray tracing and field measurements. AI-based techniques have emerged to address these limitations, offering rapid,…

While deep neural networks have excellent results in many fields, they are susceptible to interference from attacking samples resulting in erroneous judgments. Feature-level attacks are one of the effective attack types, which targets the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhibo Jin , Zhiyu Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Jun Shen , Huaming Chen

In this work we present a formal theoretical framework for assessing and analyzing two classes of malevolent action towards generic Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Our results apply to general multi-class classifiers that map from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ivan Y. Tyukin , Desmond J. Higham , Alexander N. Gorban

This paper proposes MergeGuard, a novel methodology for mitigation of AI Trojan attacks. Trojan attacks on AI models cause inputs embedded with triggers to be misclassified to an adversary's target class, posing a significant threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Soheil Zibakhsh Shabgahi , Yaman Jandali , Farinaz Koushanfar

As a type of valuable intellectual property (IP), deep neural network (DNN) models have been protected by techniques like watermarking. However, such passive model protection cannot fully prevent model abuse. In this work, we propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tong Zhou , Yukui Luo , Shaolei Ren , Xiaolin Xu

In a backdoor attack on a machine learning model, an adversary produces a model that performs well on normal inputs but outputs targeted misclassifications on inputs containing a small trigger pattern. Model compression is a widely-used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Yulong Tian , Fnu Suya , Fengyuan Xu , David Evans

Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware accelerators have been widely adopted to enhance the efficiency of deep learning applications. However, they also raise security concerns regarding their vulnerability to power side-channel attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xiaobei Yan , Chip Hong Chang , Tianwei Zhang

The anticipated integration of large artificial intelligence (AI) models with wireless communications is estimated to usher a transformative wave in the forthcoming information age. As wireless networks grow in complexity, the traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Zhu Han , Rahim Tafazolli