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most citedAttacking the Spike: On the Transferability and Security of Spiking Neural Networks to Adversarial Examples

2 citations · 2 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AI2026

Robust Instruction Compliance in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Wo Wei Lin, Ethan Rathbun, Enrico Marchesini +1

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in real-world use cases may need to adapt to external natural language instructions that interrupt ongoing behavior and conflict with long…

cs.RO2026

Targeting World Models to Compromise Robot Learning Pipelines

Ethan Rathbun, Ahmed Agha, Saaduddin Mahmud +3

World models have recently seen a rapid growth in both their popularity and capability as more data efficient tools for generating robot training data or simulating real world envi…

cs.NE20262 cited

Attacking the Spike: On the Transferability and Security of Spiking Neural Networks to Adversarial Examples

Nuo Xu, Kaleel Mahmood, Haowen Fang +3

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted much attention for their high energy efficiency and recent advances in classification performance. However, unlike traditional deep le…

cs.CR2026

Beware Untrusted Simulators -- Reward-Free Backdoor Attacks in Reinforcement Learning

Ethan Rathbun, Wo Wei Lin, Alina Oprea +1

Simulated environments are a key piece in the success of Reinforcement Learning (RL), allowing practitioners and researchers to train decision making agents without running expensi…

cs.LG2025

Hierarchical Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Network Defense

Aditya Vikram Singh, Ethan Rathbun, Emma Graham +4

Recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) have created opportunities to solve complex real-world tasks. Cybersecurity is a notable application area, where defend…

cs.CR2025

Busting the Paper Ballot: Voting Meets Adversarial Machine Learning

Kaleel Mahmood, Caleb Manicke, Ethan Rathbun +5

We show the security risk associated with using machine learning classifiers in United States election tabulators. The central classification task in election tabulation is decidin…