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Differentially-Private SGD (DP-SGD) and its adaptive variant DP-Adam are powerful techniques to protect user privacy when using sensitive data to train neural networks. During training, converting model weights and activations into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yubo Gao , Renbo Tu , Gennady Pekhimenko , Nandita Vijaykumar

Currently, there is a burgeoning demand for deploying deep learning (DL) models on ubiquitous edge Internet of Things (IoT) devices attributed to their low latency and high privacy preservation. However, DL models are often large in size…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Hua Ma , Huming Qiu , Yansong Gao , Zhi Zhang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Minhui Xue , Anmin Fu , Zhang Jiliang , Said Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott

Machine learning (ML) provides powerful tools for predictive modeling. ML's popularity stems from the promise of sample-level prediction with applications across a variety of fields from physics and marketing to healthcare. However, if not…

A large body of work shows that machine learning (ML) models can leak sensitive or confidential information about their training data. Recently, leakage due to distribution inference (or property inference) attacks is gaining attention. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Valentin Hartmann , Léo Meynent , Maxime Peyrard , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Shruti Tople , Robert West

Leakage errors arise when the quantum state leaks out of some subspace of interest, for example, the two-level subspace of a multi-level system defining a computational `qubit' or the logical code space defined by some quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 Joel J. Wallman , Marie Barnhill , Joseph Emerson

Network quantization is an effective method for the deployment of neural networks on memory and energy constrained mobile devices. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Network Quantization (DNQ) framework which is composed of two modules: a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Yuhui Xu , Shuai Zhang , Yingyong Qi , Jiaxian Guo , Weiyao Lin , Hongkai Xiong

In the federated learning system, parameter gradients are shared among participants and the central modulator, while the original data never leave their protected source domain. However, the gradient itself might carry enough information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yong Liu , Xinghua Zhu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

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

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) systems inherit vulnerabilities from classical machine learning while introducing new attack surfaces rooted in the physical and algorithmic layers of quantum computing. Despite a growing body of research on…

Quantization enables efficient deployment of large language models (LLMs) in resource-constrained environments by significantly reducing memory and computation costs. While quantized LLMs often maintain performance on perplexity and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yao Fu , Xianxuan Long , Runchao Li , Haotian Yu , Mu Sheng , Xiaotian Han , Yu Yin , Pan Li

Modern software systems complexity challenges efficient testing, as traditional machine learning (ML) struggles with large test suites. This research presents a hybrid framework integrating Quantum Annealing with ML to optimize test case…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Gopichand Bandarupalli

This paper investigates the optimal privacy-aware networked control problem, in which the dynamical system affected by a private input process sends its measurement to a remote controller after stochastic quantization. An adversary seeks to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Chuanghong Weng , Ehsan Nekouei

Security for machine learning has begun to become a serious issue for present day applications. An important question remaining is whether emerging quantum technologies will help or hinder the security of machine learning. Here we discuss a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Nathan Wiebe , Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

Diffusion models have recently emerged as the dominant approach in visual generation tasks. However, the lengthy denoising chains and the computationally intensive noise estimation networks hinder their applicability in low-latency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Qian Zeng , Jie Song , Yuanyu Wan , Huiqiong Wang , Mingli Song

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is pervasive in computer systems. Cell vulnerabilities caused by unintended phenomena (forced retention failure, latency alteration, rowhammer and rowpress) lead to unintended bit flips in memory. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zilong Hu , Hongming Fei , Prosanta Gope , Jack Miskelly , Owen Millwood , Biplab Sikdar

This paper deals with dynamic quantized consensus of dynamical agents in a general form under packet losses induced by Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The communication channel has limited bandwidth and hence the transmitted signals over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Shuai Feng , Maopeng Ran , Hideaki Ishii , Shengyuan Xu

Deep learning has made remarkable progress recently, largely due to the availability of large, well-labeled datasets. However, the training on such datasets elevates costs and computational demands. To address this, various techniques like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhenghao Zhao , Yuzhang Shang , Junyi Wu , Yan Yan

Quantization is essential for reducing the computational cost and memory usage of deep neural networks, enabling efficient inference on low-precision hardware. Despite the growing adoption of uniform and floating-point quantization schemes,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Mehmet Aktukmak , Daniel Huang , Ke Ding

Recent success of large text-to-image models has empirically underscored the exceptional performance of diffusion models in generative tasks. To facilitate their efficient deployment on resource-constrained edge devices, model quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qian Zeng , Chenggong Hu , Mingli Song , Jie Song

In a context of malicious software detection, machine learning (ML) is widely used to generalize to new malware. However, it has been demonstrated that ML models can be fooled or may have generalization problems on malware that has never…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Grégoire Barrué , Tony Quertier