Enhances DNNs by selectively learning key image edges.
problem Improving DNN robustness against adversarial attacks.
method Introduces Secure Selective Convolution (SSC) to learn important image edges.
result Significant reduction in attack success rate and imperceptibility of adversarial images.
With the rising popularity of machine learning and the ever increasing demand for computational power, there is a growing need for hardware optimized implementations of neural networks and other machine learning models. As the technology evolves, it is also plausible that machine learning or artificial intelligence wil…
New model improves classifier security against evasion attacks by selecting features.
problem Security of machine learning classifiers against evasion attacks.
method Adversary-aware feature selection model incorporating specific adversary assumptions.
result Classifier security worsens with feature selection, but new model improves it.
Secure linear regression at speed of plaintext methods.
problem Secure multiparty linear regression and feature selection.
method Distributed algorithms combining geometric ideas.
result Efficient and secure genome-wide association studies.
We develop a secure aggregation protocol for federated learning that reduces communication and computation costs.
problem Expensive communication and privacy concerns in federated learning.
method Adapting compression-based federated techniques to additive secret sharing.
result Our protocol achieves high accuracy with low communication costs and is more efficient than prior work.
We study a portfolio selection problem in a continuous-time Itô-Markov additive market with prices of financial assets described by Markov additive processes which combine Lévy processes and regime switching models. Thus the model takes into account two sources of risk: the jump diffusion risk and the regime switching …
A model for choosing crypto assets based on security and stability.
problem Optimal selection of crypto assets considering security and stability.
method A recommender app-like system that presents pairs of crypto assets and collects investor preferences.
result A variety of possible outcomes for crypto asset investments and adoption.
Optimizes a portfolio for an investor preferring accepted securities over a reference security.
problem Investor preference for a set of securities over a reference security with constraints.
method Mean-variance optimization with Sharpe Ratio performance measurement.
result Derives an optimal portfolio that maximizes returns while minimizing risk.
Secure neural network inference on untrusted platforms using holographic reduced representations.
problem Secure neural network inference on untrusted platforms.
method Connectionist Symbolic Pseudo Secrets using Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR).
result Empirical robustness to attack under various threat models.
Secure blockchain architectures protect data privacy in distributed learning.
problem Data privacy and trust in distributed learning across organizations.
method Adequate encryption and blockchain mechanisms ensure data privacy and trust in iterative learning.
result Secure sharing of a learned model among coalition members without revealing data.
The paper evaluates methods for explaining deep learning in security.
problem Understanding the predictions of deep learning models in security applications.
method Developed criteria to compare and evaluate six explanation methods.
result Significant differences exist between the methods, leading to recommendations.
We create a formal framework for the design of informative securities in prediction markets. These securities allow a market organizer to infer the likelihood of events of interest as well as if he knew all of the traders' private signals. We consider the design of markets that are always informative, markets that are …
Learning in adversarial settings is becoming an important task for application domains where attackers may inject malicious data into the training set to subvert normal operation of data-driven technologies. Feature selection has been widely used in machine learning for security applications to improve generalization a…
Paper evaluates security of deep learning from side-channel attacks.
problem Security of deep learning algorithms from side-channel attacks.
method Uses hardware performance counters to test for information leakage in CNNs.
result Shows alarms for potential data privacy breaches in CNNs.
Proposes a deep diffusion watermarking framework for secure image processing.
problem Secure watermarking of deep neural networks in image processing.
method End-to-end training of two FCNNs with residual structure for embedding and extraction.
result Framework improves security and robustness with customizable trade-offs.
This research secures deployed sentiment analysis models by identifying and defending against attack vectors.
problem Securing deployed machine learning models, particularly sentiment analysis systems, from adversarial attacks.
method BAD (Build, Attack, Defend) Architecture, evaluating two implementations.
result Demonstrated a viable methodology for securing machine learning models in production.
Attention-based CNNs improve band selection in hyperspectral images.
problem Selecting informative bands from hyperspectral images for accurate classification.
method Attention-based convolutional neural networks reusing activations at different depths.
result Deep models with attention mechanisms achieve high-quality classification and identify significant bands.
Bin2vec learns executable program representations for security tasks.
problem Manual rule and heuristic definition for binary program analysis is tedious and time-consuming.
method Bin2vec uses Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) on computational program graphs.
result Improvement over state-of-the-art methods for binary analysis tasks.
Study forecasts food security trends using real-time data.
problem Food insecurity prediction for sub-national regions.
method Quantitative methodology combining various machine learning models.
result Reservoir Computing model performs best in food security prediction.
To accommodate heterogeneous tasks in Internet of Things (IoT), a new communication and computing paradigm termed mobile edge computing emerges that extends computing services from the cloud to edge, but at the same time exposes new challenges on security. The present paper studies online security-aware edge computing …
Machine learning has become one of the main components for task automation in many application domains. Despite the advancements and impressive achievements of machine learning, it has been shown that learning algorithms can be compromised by attackers both at training and test time. Machine learning systems are especi…
Platform uses queries to elicit investor preferences for portfolio trades, improving allocation efficiency.
problem Hidden-information problem in institutional crossing markets where investors value trades as portfolios but liquidity discovery is organized by individual securities.
method Modeling portfolio crossing as preference elicitation, using price-directed demand queries and value queries to verify selected packages.
result Hybrid procedure using demand and value queries recovers 88-95% of full-information welfare with a limited query budget.
Deep learning detects arrhythmia from RR-interval ECG data.
problem Diagnosing arrhythmia using ECG data.
method Convolutional neural network (CNN) on time-sliced RR-interval data.
result Compact system achieves accurate arrhythmia detection.
New method selects edges in stock networks using multiple threshold values.
problem Balancing prominent correlations and network connectivity in stock networks.
method Uses multiple distributions in a maximum likelihood estimator for selecting threshold values.
result Proposed method develops networks with appropriate connectivities.
DUPLE tackles cross-deployment recognition in fiber-optic perimeter security with meta-learning.
problem Cross-deployment recognition challenges in fiber-optic perimeter security due to label scarcity and distribution shifts.
method DUPLE employs statistically guided meta-learning to enhance recognition robustness across unseen deployments.
result DUPLE consistently outperforms traditional and meta-learning baselines in cross-deployment DFOS benchmarks.
Estimates funding impact from an algorithmic relief rule, finding little effect on hospital activities.
problem Evaluating the impact of algorithmic policy decisions.
method Developed a treatment-effect estimator using algorithmic decisions as instruments.
result Funding from an algorithmic relief rule had little effect on COVID-19-related hospital activities.
New CNN layer selects important channels to improve model capacity.
problem Improving model capacity under resource constraints.
method Selective allocation of channels in convolutional layers.
result New layer allows new optima that generalize better.
The paper uses interpretable ML to secure data quality in IoT edge computing.
problem Ensuring data quality in IoT edge computing environments.
method Interpretable machine learning methods for feature selection and ensemble learning.
result The proposed method efficiently selects significant features for data processing.
We investigate entropy as a financial risk measure. Entropy explains the equity premium of securities and portfolios in a simpler way and, at the same time, with higher explanatory power than the beta parameter of the capital asset pricing model. For asset pricing we define the continuous entropy as an alternative meas…
Differential privacy improves AI security, fairness, and learning.
problem Privacy violations, security issues, and model fairness in AI.
method Application of differential privacy in various AI areas.
result Differential privacy enhances AI performance in multiple areas.
The article presents a new entropy model for assessing stock market interest.
problem Assessing investor interest and market sentiment in exchange-traded securities.
method Intrinsic entropy model using actual trading data, without exogenous factors.
result Empirical evidence supports the model's ability to predict trading activity.
Deep neural networks detect cyberthreats from Twitter.
problem Scalable processing of cybersecurity information from social media.
method Convolutional and bidirectional LSTM networks for tweet classification and named entity recognition.
result Pipeline achieves high true positive and F1-score rates for threat detection.
Paper proposes SDS for 5G security using machine learning.
problem Cybersecurity threats and expanding IoT in 5G networks.
method SDS uses machine learning, specifically a CNN with NAS, to detect anomalies.
result CNN achieved 100% accuracy in identifying benign traffic and 96.4% in detecting anomalies.
Theorem ensures superior learning outcomes for authorized learners with quantum label encoding.
problem Ensuring data security for authorized learners in machine learning.
method Quantum label encoding and PAC learning framework.
result Authorized learners achieve superior learning outcomes while eavesdroppers do not.
SANNS secures k-NNS queries and results without revealing them.
problem Securely searching for nearest neighbors without exposing sensitive data.
method Optimized linear scan and clustering-based algorithm with cryptographic primitives.
result SANNS achieves up to 31x faster response times and scales to 10 million entries.
Ensuring the security of transactions is currently one of the major challenges that banking systems deal with. The usage of face for biometric authentication of users is attracting large investments from banks worldwide due to its convenience and acceptability by people, especially in cross-domain scenarios, in which f…
New method corrects Markowitz variance for trading volume fluctuations.
problem Incorrect risk estimates from Markowitz variance in trading environments.
method Modeling portfolio variance based on trade volume fluctuations.
result Market-based variance can significantly differ from Markowitz variance.
Deep-CAPTCHA cracks visual CAPTCHAs using deep learning.
problem Cracking visual CAPTCHAs to assess vulnerabilities.
method Developed a Convolutional Neural Network (Deep-CAPTCHA) to solve numerical and alphanumeric CAPTCHAs.
result Cracking accuracy of 98.94% and 98.31% for numerical and alphanumeric datasets respectively.
Protein-ligand scoring is an important step in a structure-based drug design pipeline. Selecting a correct binding pose and predicting the binding affinity of a protein-ligand complex enables effective virtual screening. Machine learning techniques can make use of the increasing amounts of structural data that are beco…
The vector of periodic, compound returns of a typical investment portfolio is almost never a convex combination of the return vectors of the securities in the portfolio. As a result the ex post version of Harry Markowitz's "standard mean-variance portfolio selection model" does not apply to compound return data. We pro…
We find that CNNs with BN and ReLU exhibit feature sparsity through selective feature penalization.
problem Feature sparsity in CNNs trained with specific techniques.
method Empirical study and hypothesis testing on sparsification mechanisms.
result Selective feature penalization leads to feature sparsity in CNNs, comparable to explicit pruning.
Study speaker verification security using hierarchical Bayesian modeling.
problem Estimating false alarm rate in ASV systems for large speaker databases.
method Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of ASV scores to assess security against closest impostors.
result Neither i-vector nor x-vector systems are secure against increased impostor database size.
AquaSight detects water impurity using deep learning.
problem Water pollution and lack of affordable water quality assessment.
method Convolutional Neural Networks for automated water impurity detection.
result Deep learning model achieved 96% accuracy in detecting water contamination.
Unified framework for pricing various debt securities.
problem Pricing of different types of debt securities under general short-rate processes.
method Unifying framework using continuous-time Markov chain approximations and bi-dimensional diffusion processes.
result Closed-form matrix expressions and efficient algorithms for pricing various debt securities.
Paper improves DNS typo-squatting detection with ensemble model.
problem Detecting and preventing DNS typo-squatting attacks.
method Ensemble-based feature selection and bagging classification model.
result The proposed framework achieves high accuracy and precision in identifying typo-squatting domains.
Paper introduces DropFilter and DropFilter-PLUS for CNN regularization.
problem Overfitting in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
method Randomly modifies convolution filters in CNNs.
result Improves performance on image classification tasks.
New approach detects adversarial samples with certifiable guarantees.
problem Adversarial samples can trick CNNs, posing a threat.
method Certifiable Taboo Trap (CTT) approach to detect adversarial inputs.
result CTT outperforms existing defenses on various lp norms. Mutual teaching improves graph models with less labeled data.
problem Training graph models with limited labeled data.
method Dual model training with mutual teaching strategy.
result Significant performance improvement with less labeled data.