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Embodied AI systems, including robots and autonomous vehicles, are increasingly integrated into real-world applications, where they encounter a range of vulnerabilities stemming from both environmental and system-level factors. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Wenpeng Xing , Minghao Li , Mohan Li , Meng Han

When machine learning training is outsourced to third parties, $backdoor$ $attacks$ become practical as the third party who trains the model may act maliciously to inject hidden behaviors into the otherwise accurate model. Until now, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini , Alexey Kurakin

In this paper, we start the investigation of distributed computing by mobile agents in dangerous dynamic networks. The danger is posed by the presence in the network of a black hole BH, a harmful site that destroys all incoming agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro

Vector Database (VDB) can efficiently index and search high-dimensional vector embeddings from unstructured data, crucially enabling fast semantic similarity search essential for modern AI applications like generative AI and recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ruiqi He , Zekun Fei , Jiaqi Li , Xinyuan Zhu , Biao Yi , Siyi Lv , Weijie Liu , Zheli Liu

This paper concerns corpus poisoning attacks in dense information retrieval, where an adversary attempts to compromise the ranking performance of a search algorithm by injecting a small number of maliciously generated documents into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yongkang Li , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Simon Lupart , Evangelos Kanoulas

Deep neural network (DNN) as a popular machine learning model is found to be vulnerable to adversarial attack. This attack constructs adversarial examples by adding small perturbations to the raw input, while appearing unmodified to human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Pengcheng Li , Jinfeng Yi , Lijun Zhang

Backdoor attack is a major threat to deep learning systems in safety-critical scenarios, which aims to trigger misbehavior of neural network models under attacker-controlled conditions. However, most backdoor attacks have to modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yizhen Yuan , Rui Kong , Shenghao Xie , Yuanchun Li , Yunxin Liu

Vector databases have rapidly grown in popularity, enabling efficient similarity search over data such as text, images, and video. They now play a central role in modern AI workflows, aiding large language models by grounding model outputs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Seth Ockerman , Amal Gueroudji , Song Young Oh , Robert Underwood , Nicholas Chia , Kyle Chard , Robert Ross , Shivaram Venkataraman

Models can expose sensitive information about their training data. In an attribute inference attack, an adversary has partial knowledge of some training records and access to a model trained on those records, and infers the unknown values…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans

In a membership inference attack, an attacker aims to infer whether a data sample is in a target classifier's training dataset or not. Specifically, given a black-box access to the target classifier, the attacker trains a binary classifier,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Jinyuan Jia , Ahmed Salem , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Adversarial attack arises due to the vulnerability of deep neural networks to perceive input samples injected with imperceptible perturbations. Recently, adversarial attack has been applied to visual object tracking to evaluate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shuai Jia , Yibing Song , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been broadly adopted in health risk prediction to provide healthcare diagnoses and treatments. To evaluate their robustness, existing research conducts adversarial attacks in the white/gray-box setting where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Muchao Ye , Junyu Luo , Guanjie Zheng , Cao Xiao , Ting Wang , Fenglong Ma

In a poisoning attack, an adversary with control over a small fraction of the training data attempts to select that data in a way that induces a corrupted model that misbehaves in favor of the adversary. We consider poisoning attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Fnu Suya , Saeed Mahloujifar , Anshuman Suri , David Evans , Yuan Tian

Deep learning has become a cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence, enabling transformative applications across a wide range of domains. As the core element of deep learning, the quality and security of training data critically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Pinlong Zhao , Weiyao Zhu , Pengfei Jiao , Di Gao , Ou Wu

We study the security threats of power system operation brought by a class of data injection attacks upon load forecasting algorithms. In particular, with minimal assumptions on the knowledge and ability of the attacker, we design attack…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Yize Chen , Yushi Tan , Ling Zhang , Baosen Zhang

Recent years have seen an increased interest towards strong security primitives for encrypted databases (such as oblivious protocols), that hide the access patterns of query execution, and reveal only the volume of results. However, recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Rishabh Poddar , Stephanie Wang , Jianan Lu , Raluca Ada Popa

A distribution inference attack aims to infer statistical properties of data used to train machine learning models. These attacks are sometimes surprisingly potent, but the factors that impact distribution inference risk are not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anshuman Suri , Yifu Lu , Yanjin Chen , David Evans

With further development in the fields of computer vision, network security, natural language processing and so on so forth, deep learning technology gradually exposed certain security risks. The existing deep learning algorithms cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Rui Zhao

Neural text ranking models have witnessed significant advancement and are increasingly being deployed in practice. Unfortunately, they also inherit adversarial vulnerabilities of general neural models, which have been detected but remain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jiawei Liu , Yangyang Kang , Di Tang , Kaisong Song , Changlong Sun , Xiaofeng Wang , Wei Lu , Xiaozhong Liu

Decision-based evasion attacks repeatedly query a black-box classifier to generate adversarial examples. Prior work measures the cost of such attacks by the total number of queries made to the classifier. We argue this metric is flawed.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Edoardo Debenedetti , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr