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Hauptverfasser: Meftah, Hanene F. Z. Brachemi, Hamidouche, Wassim, Fezza, Sid Ahmed, Deforges, Olivier
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04963
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author Meftah, Hanene F. Z. Brachemi
Hamidouche, Wassim
Fezza, Sid Ahmed
Deforges, Olivier
author_facet Meftah, Hanene F. Z. Brachemi
Hamidouche, Wassim
Fezza, Sid Ahmed
Deforges, Olivier
contents The growing computational demand for deep neural networks ( DNNs) has raised concerns about their energy consumption and carbon footprint, particularly as the size and complexity of the models continue to increase. To address these challenges, energy-efficient hardware and custom accelerators have become essential. Additionally, adaptable DNN s are being developed to dynamically balance performance and efficiency. The use of these strategies became more common to enable sustainable AI deployment. However, these efficiency-focused designs may also introduce vulnerabilities, as attackers can potentially exploit them to increase latency and energy usage by triggering their worst-case-performance scenarios. This new type of attack, called energy-latency attacks, has recently gained significant research attention, focusing on the vulnerability of DNN s to this emerging attack paradigm, which can trigger denial-of-service ( DoS) attacks. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of current research on energy-latency attacks, categorizing them using the established taxonomy for traditional adversarial attacks. We explore different metrics used to measure the success of these attacks and provide an analysis and comparison of existing attack strategies. We also analyze existing defense mechanisms and highlight current challenges and potential areas for future research in this developing field. The GitHub page for this work can be accessed at https://github.com/hbrachemi/Survey_energy_attacks/
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spellingShingle Energy-Latency Attacks: A New Adversarial Threat to Deep Learning
Meftah, Hanene F. Z. Brachemi
Hamidouche, Wassim
Fezza, Sid Ahmed
Deforges, Olivier
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
The growing computational demand for deep neural networks ( DNNs) has raised concerns about their energy consumption and carbon footprint, particularly as the size and complexity of the models continue to increase. To address these challenges, energy-efficient hardware and custom accelerators have become essential. Additionally, adaptable DNN s are being developed to dynamically balance performance and efficiency. The use of these strategies became more common to enable sustainable AI deployment. However, these efficiency-focused designs may also introduce vulnerabilities, as attackers can potentially exploit them to increase latency and energy usage by triggering their worst-case-performance scenarios. This new type of attack, called energy-latency attacks, has recently gained significant research attention, focusing on the vulnerability of DNN s to this emerging attack paradigm, which can trigger denial-of-service ( DoS) attacks. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of current research on energy-latency attacks, categorizing them using the established taxonomy for traditional adversarial attacks. We explore different metrics used to measure the success of these attacks and provide an analysis and comparison of existing attack strategies. We also analyze existing defense mechanisms and highlight current challenges and potential areas for future research in this developing field. The GitHub page for this work can be accessed at https://github.com/hbrachemi/Survey_energy_attacks/
title Energy-Latency Attacks: A New Adversarial Threat to Deep Learning
topic Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04963