| Title | CleaNN: Accelerated Trojan Shield for Embedded Neural Networks |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Javaheripi, Mojan, Samragh, Mohammad, Fields, Gregory, Javidi, Tara, Koushanfar, Farinaz |
| Conference Name | 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| Keywords | anomaly detection, Deep Learning, discrete cosine transforms, Embedded systems, Image reconstruction, image restoration, neural network resiliency, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, sparse recovery, Training, Transforms, Trojan Attack, Trojan horses |
| Abstract | We propose Cleann, the first end-to-end framework that enables online mitigation of Trojans for embedded Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications. A Trojan attack works by injecting a backdoor in the DNN while training; during inference, the Trojan can be activated by the specific backdoor trigger. What differentiates Cleann from the prior work is its lightweight methodology which recovers the ground-truth class of Trojan samples without the need for labeled data, model retraining, or prior assumptions on the trigger or the attack. We leverage dictionary learning and sparse approximation to characterize the statistical behavior of benign data and identify Trojan triggers. Cleann is devised based on algorithm/hardware co-design and is equipped with specialized hardware to enable efficient real-time execution on resource-constrained embedded platforms. Proof of concept evaluations on Cleann for the state-of-the-art Neural Trojan attacks on visual benchmarks demonstrate its competitive advantage in terms of attack resiliency and execution overhead. |
| Citation Key | javaheripi_cleann_2020 |
CleaNN: Accelerated Trojan Shield for Embedded Neural Networks