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48 results for global attacks

Federated learning is protected against adversarial attacks with residual-based reweighting.

problem Adversarial attacks on federated learning's aggregation process.
method Residual-based reweighting combined with iteratively reweighted least squares.
result Our aggregation algorithm outperforms other methods in label-flipping and backdoor attacks.

Researchers develop methods to protect reinforcement learning and control systems from policy poisoning attacks.

problem Attacks on reinforcement learning and control systems that manipulate learned policies.
method Unified framework for solving policy poisoning attacks, demonstrating global optimality and feasibility.
result Policy poisoning attacks are feasible and can be defended with a convex optimization approach.

ME-Net defends neural nets against adversarial attacks by reconstructing images.

problem Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks.
method ME-Net uses matrix estimation to preprocess images, destroying adversarial noise while preserving global structure.
result ME-Net consistently outperforms state-of-the-art defenses on various benchmarks.

Data poisoning attacks can severely degrade FL models, especially targeting specific classes.

problem Data poisoning attacks against federated learning systems.
method Demonstrated targeted attacks on FL systems, analyzed attack longevity, and proposed a defense strategy.
result Data poisoning attacks can cause substantial drops in classification accuracy and recall with a small percentage of malicious participants.

Deep 3D models are vulnerable to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep 3D models to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.
method Developed a black-box attack with success rate over 95% and a novel white-box attack framework.
result Deep 3D models are extremely vulnerable to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.

Paper tackles cybersecurity attack detection with an ensemble approach.

problem Challenges in multi-class classification for cyber security breaches.
method Designing a multi-node multi-class classification ensemble approach.
result Proposed approach outperforms full-data approach in multi-node data-censoring cases.

P-BO reduces black-box adversarial attacks by 10x with Bayesian optimization and function prior.

problem Efficiently generating adversarial examples against black-box models.
method Prior-guided Bayesian Optimization (P-BO) with a function prior initialized from a surrogate model.
result Significantly reduces the number of queries needed for adversarial attacks.

Improves deep learning robustness by enforcing local and global compactness.

problem Deep neural networks' vulnerability to adversarial attacks.
method Proposes Adversary Divergence Reduction Network (ADRN) that enforces local/global compactness and clustering assumption.
result Augmenting adversarial training with ADRN components improves robustness.

Generates diverse images by resampling specific parts while maintaining global consistency.

problem Creating diverse images while maintaining global consistency in certain parts.
method Developed a new network architecture, training procedure, and resampling algorithm.
result Achieved low distortion block-resampling with spatially stochastic networks.

Study compares federated learning and coreset approaches for privacy in distributed machine learning.

problem Measuring privacy in distributed machine learning approaches.
method Comparison of federated learning and coreset approaches using membership inference attack.
result Federated learning offers better privacy than coreset, but with higher communication cost.

Improved robustness for deep neural networks with tighter bounds and attacks.

problem Loose upper bounds and prohibitive computation in existing adversarial robustness methods.
method Primal approach with exact Lipschitz certificates for ReLU networks and modern architectures, and novel Wasserstein Distributional Attacks.
result Tighter upper bounds and greater flexibility in attack points compared to existing methods.

This study examines LiDAR spoofing attacks on autonomous vehicle perception.

problem Security vulnerabilities in LiDAR-based perception systems in autonomous driving.
method Formulated as an optimization problem, designed input perturbation and objective functions, combined optimization and global sampling.
result Attack success rates improved to around 75% through strategic input perturbation.

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs designed to fool machine learning models. Adversarial training injects such examples into training data to increase robustness. To scale this technique to large datasets, perturbations are crafted using fast single-step methods that maximize a linear approximation of the model'…

2017-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This study analyzes global oil trade networks to assess their efficiency and robustness.

problem Dynamic monitoring and warning of international trade risks in global oil trade.
method Constructing unweighted and weighted global oil trade networks (OTNs) using UN Comtrade data from 1988 to 2017, and applying complex network theories.
result Efficiency of oil flows increases with complexity of OTNs, and weighted efficiency indicators highlight major events.

This work uses Lyapunov theory to improve the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to subtle adversarial perturbations.
method Treated each layer as a nonlinear dynamical system and used Lyapunov theory for stability and robustness.
result Developed empirically tight bounds on adversarial perturbations and proved stability and robustness globally.

Deep learning systems have become ubiquitous in many aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, it has been shown that such systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, making them prone to potential unlawful uses. Designing deep neural networks that are robust to adversarial attacks is a fundamental step in making such sy…

2018-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepMPM uses MPM to make deep neural networks more robust against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Applying MPM to deep neural networks in an end-to-end fashion to minimize an upper bound of misclassification probabilities considering global class information.
result DeepMPM achieves comparable classification performance with CNN but is more robust against adversarial attacks.

This paper improves model robustness against adversarial attacks using optimal transport.

problem Adversarial attacks can mislead deep learning models with imperceptible perturbations.
method Exploits optimal transport theory to align adversarial and original image distributions.
result SAT (Sinkhorn Adversarial Training) leads to more robust models compared to state-of-the-art.

The objective of this research is to enhance performance of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm in text classification. In our research, we proposed using SGD learning with Grid-Search approach to fine-tuning hyper-parameters in order to enhance the performance of SGD classification. We explored different setti…

2019-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for data poisoning attacks in graph-based semi-supervised learning.

problem Data poisoning attacks on graph-based semi-supervised learning.
method Unified formula for data poisoning attacks, specialized algorithms for regression and classification tasks.
result Data poisoning can be effective even with minimal perturbations.

Stealthy hardware Trojan exploits DLA architecture vulnerabilities.

problem Security of DLA deployed on hardware accelerators.
method Input Interception Attack (IIA) exploiting statistical properties of DLA outputs.
result Stealthy Trojan can trigger with some definiteness.

Machine learning (ML) over distributed multi-party data is required for a variety of domains. Existing approaches, such as federated learning, collect the outputs computed by a group of devices at a central aggregator and run iterative algorithms to train a globally shared model. Unfortunately, such approaches are susc…

2018-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study protects federated learning models from eavesdropping attacks.

problem Protecting client models in federated learning from eavesdropping adversaries.
method Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments examining various factors.
result Theoretical and experimental results show the effectiveness of protection methods.

Efficient method defends privacy in federated learning without accuracy loss.

problem Privacy attacks on federated learning by reconstructing and identifying local data.
method Random noise perturbation method that allows recovery of true gradients.
result Strong privacy protection without sacrificing learning accuracy.

FRA-Attack improves adversarial transferability for closed-source MLLMs by aligning visual focus across models.

problem Improving adversarial transferability for closed-source MLLMs, especially with high accuracy.
method Unified frequency-domain regularization approach: high-pass DCT objective for feature alignment and Frequency-domain Gradient Regularization (FGR) for gradient optimization.
result FRA-Attack achieves superior cross-model transferability, especially on GPT-5.4, Claude-Opus-4.6, and Gemini-3-flash.

This paper considers the problem of detection in distributed networks in the presence of data falsification (Byzantine) attacks. Detection approaches considered in the paper are based on fully distributed consensus algorithms, where all of the nodes exchange information only with their neighbors in the absence of a fus…

2015-04-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial neural network improves cyber attack detection across different networks.

problem Detecting cyber attacks across networks with different traffic distributions.
method Adversarial Siamese neural network that learns invariant attack representations.
result The method retrieves sizable proportions of malicious events, even when trained on one dataset and tested on another.

This paper studies adversarial attacks on Gaussian process bandits.

problem Adversarial attacks on Gaussian process bandits to manipulate optimal function regions.
method Proposes various adversarial attack methods on GP bandits, including white-box and black-box attacks.
result Adversarial attacks can force GP bandits to optima in target regions even with low attack budgets.

Subpopulation attacks poison data to misclassify naturally distributed points.

problem Improving accuracy of machine learning predictions through adversarial data modification.
method Introducing a novel subpopulation attack framework, using influence functions and gradient optimization.
result Subpopulation attacks are effective and stealthy, making them difficult to defend against.

Efficient attacks on DRL models without model access and low computation.

problem Vulnerabilities of DRL models to adversarial attacks.
method Adapting black-box attacks, introducing efficient online sequential attacks, exploring perturbations in environment dynamics, and generating robust physical perturbations.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of proposed attacks on real-world robots.

Reward-poisoning attacks can force RL agents to learn bad policies, and we categorize and quantify their feasibility.

problem Reward-poisoning attacks can manipulate RL agents to learn undesirable policies.
method Categorize attacks by infinity-norm constraint, provide thresholds for feasibility, and develop adaptive attack strategies.
result Adaptive reward-poisoning attacks can achieve the nefarious policy in polynomial steps, while non-adaptive attacks require exponential steps.