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Record W4413155904 · doi:10.1109/tac.2025.3598115

Integrity Attacks on Remote Estimation Under Sequential Detection

2025· article· en· W4413155904 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDistributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsComputer scienceEstimationComputer securityArtificial intelligenceEngineeringSystems engineering

Abstract

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This note investigates the worst-case performance of multi-sensor remote estimation compromised by integrity attacks. In addition to the residual-based <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\chi ^{2}$</tex-math></inline-formula> detector commonly deployed for unreliable sensors, the reliability of certain sensors allows for a second detector to be applied sequentially. This enhanced detection mechanism imposes stricter stealthiness constraints on integrity attacks, thereby increasing the complexity of vulnerability analysis. To characterize the maximum degradation in estimation performance, we propose a novel attack pattern that is constructed based on an efficient utilization of available information. The resulting worst-case performance and corresponding optimal attacks can be derived in closed form. The optimality of the proposed strategies among all feasible attacks is confirmed by analyzing the structure of the associated optimization problem. To improve practical applicability, we further consider attacks without access to reliable sensor data. By specifying the feasibility condition and deriving the optimal attacks, the vulnerability is more clearly revealed. Finally, numerical simulations are provided to validate the theoretical findings.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.987
Threshold uncertainty score0.920

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it