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48 results for Defensive ML

Topology-aware generative models improve manifold-based defenses against adversarial examples.

problem Adversarial examples compromise the reliability of ML models, especially DNNs.
method Investigate if generative models used in manifold-based defenses need to be topology-aware.
result Topology-aware generative models enhance the robustness of manifold-based defenses.

Unified framework for analyzing model stealing attacks and defenses.

problem Vulnerability of ML applications to model stealing attacks.
method Developed a rigorous threat model and evaluation criteria, proposed methods to quantify attack and defense strategies.
result Demonstrated the importance of attack-specific perturbations for effective defenses.

New defense DMP preserves ML model utility while enhancing membership privacy.

problem Membership inference attacks (MIAs) on machine learning models.
method Knowledge distillation to train ML models with membership privacy.
result DMP provides significantly better tradeoffs between membership privacy and classification accuracies.

Randomized smoothing reduces accuracy in ML models, especially at higher noise levels.

problem Adversarial attacks on ML models, especially randomized smoothing's accuracy drop.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of randomized smoothing's effect on feasible hypotheses space.
result For some noise levels, randomized smoothing shrinks the set of feasible hypotheses, leading to accuracy drops.

Paper examines how adversarial ML attacks and defenses impact civil liberties and human rights.

problem Impact of adversarial machine learning on civil liberties and human rights.
method Uses insights from STS, anthropology, and human rights literature.
result Adversarial defenses can be used to suppress dissent and limit investigation of ML systems.

This paper analyzes how data and model properties affect membership inference attacks.

problem Understanding and mitigating the vulnerability of machine learning models to membership inference attacks.
method Empirical analysis of data and model properties on MIA success.
result Data and model properties, not just model overfitting, influence MIA success.

Explores security challenges of machine learning in real-world systems.

problem Vulnerabilities in machine learning models deployed in safety-critical systems.
method Broadens systems security view of ML vulnerabilities, identifies novel challenges, proposes mitigation suggestions.
result Highlights novel challenges and proposes mitigation strategies for securing ML systems.

Paper assesses holistic risks of inference attacks on ML models.

problem Lack of comprehensive risk assessment of inference attacks on ML models.
method Presented a threat model taxonomy for four inference attacks on five model architectures and four image datasets.
result Complexity of training dataset influences attack performance; model stealing and membership inference attacks are negatively correlated.

PAD offers a principled approach to malware detection against evasion attacks.

problem Machine Learning techniques for malware detection are vulnerable to evasion attacks.
method PAD proposes a new adversarial training framework with convergence guarantees for robust optimization.
result PAD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art defenses and can harden ML-based malware detection against 27 evasion attacks.

This paper tackles security challenges in CAVs using ML, proposing defenses against adversarial attacks.

problem Security threats posed by adversarial machine learning in CAVs.
method An in-depth analysis of ML pipeline in CAVs, identifying security issues and proposing defenses.
result Proposes solutions to defend against adversarial attacks in CAVs.

Defends against ML inference attacks using adversarial examples.

problem Automated inference attacks using ML classifiers pose privacy and security threats.
method Turns ML classifier vulnerabilities into defenses by adding adversarial noise to public data.
result Adversarial examples can mislead ML classifiers and protect private data.

This paper explores RL for cyber defense in SDN, resisting poisoning attacks.

problem Adversaries exploit ML adaptability to poison training and evade classification.
method Investigates RL algorithms for autonomous cyber defense in SDN, studying various attack types.
result RL agents can effectively react to poisoning attacks in SDN.

Paper builds ML classifier to detect crypto-ransomware.

problem Detecting crypto-ransomware with high accuracy and low false positives.
method Behavior-based detection using input/output activities and file-content entropy. Deep-learning classifier with adversarial research and Integrated Gradient method for explanation.
result Deep-learning classifier achieves high accuracy and low false positive rate in detecting crypto-ransomware.

This thesis enhances ML reliability by selectively abstaining from predictions when uncertain.

problem Improving reliability in machine learning systems, especially in high-stakes domains.
method Exploiting uncertainty signals from training trajectories to develop lightweight, post-hoc abstention methods compatible with differential privacy.
result A robust trajectory-based approach to selective prediction that maintains high accuracy under privacy noise.

This paper finds universal perturbations to fool black-box ML classifiers.

problem Breaking security through obscurity in black-box ML settings.
method Zeroth-order optimization for finding universal adversarial perturbations in a black-box setting.
result State-of-the-art ML classifiers can be fooled with a single imperceptible image perturbation.

This paper improves AI defenses against network attacks using ML and adversarial learning.

problem Protecting personal data from sophisticated network attacks.
method Unified multi-modal dataset, machine learning for detection, adversarial learning for synthetic data generation.
result Stable ML models for intrusion detection and high-fidelity synthetic data.

ATHENA builds flexible defenses against adversarial attacks.

problem Extensive research on adversarial attacks is domain-specific and cannot be easily extended.
method Designing an extensible framework based on diverse weak defenses.
result Comprehensive empirical study demonstrates the effectiveness of ATHENA.

New defense method inspired by encryption improves visual classification accuracy.

problem Conventional defenses reduce accuracy and are defeated by obfuscated gradients.
method Block-wise pixel shuffling with secret key for training and test images.
result Achieves high accuracy (91.55%) on clean images and (89.66%) on adversarial examples.

Automated discovery of adaptive attacks improves adversarial defense evaluation.

problem Challenges in reliably evaluating adversarial defenses.
method Formalizes adaptive attacks as reusable building blocks in a search space for automatic discovery.
result Our tool discovers significantly stronger attacks than AutoAttack, improving adversarial defense evaluation.

New contest evaluates machine learning robustness against unrestricted adversarial examples.

problem Evaluating machine learning robustness against arbitrary adversarial inputs.
method Two-player contest with a prize pool, focusing on unconstrained adversarial examples.
result Demonstrates the need for comprehensive evaluation of machine learning models' worst-case adversarial risk.

New research shows many recent defenses against adversarial examples are ineffective against black-box attacks.

problem The robustness of recent defenses against adversarial examples is insufficient, especially against black-box attacks.
method Evaluation of nine defenses on two black-box adversarial models and six attacks on CIFAR-10 and Fashion-MNIST datasets.
result Most recent defenses provide only marginal improvements in security (<25%<25\%) compared to undefended networks.

Paper analyzes adversarial attacks and defenses using game theory.

problem Unclear conditions for optimal attacks and defenses in adversarial learning.
method Game-theoretic framework with locally linear decision boundary model.
result Fast Gradient Method attack and Randomized Smoothing defense form a Nash Equilibrium.

New defense against DNN model stealing attacks by poisoning predictions.

problem Stealing DNN models through black-box access attacks.
method Active perturbation of predictions to mislead attacker's training.
result Effective against a wide range of DNN stealing attacks, reducing attacker's success rate significantly.

This study evaluates adversarial attacks and defenses for chest X-ray disease classification.

problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples in chest X-ray disease detection.
method Detailed introduction and evaluation of various attack and defense methods.
result Attack and defense methods perform poorly with excessive iterations and large perturbations.

Stochastic defense improves natural classifiers against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep networks to adversarial attacks.
method Long-run MCMC sampling with Energy-Based Model for adversarial purification.
result Balancing memoryless and metastable behavior leads to effective purification and robust classification.