Hardware Trojan Attacks on Neural Networks

Understand

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 will soon become consumer electronic products and military equipment, in the form of well-trained models.
• Unfortunately, the modern fabless business model of manufacturing hardware, while economic, leads to deficiencies in security through the supply chain.
• In this paper, we illuminate these security issues by introducing hardware Trojan attacks on neural networks, expanding the current taxonomy of neural network security to incorporate attacks of this nature.